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Stage

  • Taskmaster: The Live Experience, press, publicity photo

    Count the bounces! Balance the egg! Can Taskmaster triumph as a live experience?

    Playing gimcrack games and being teased by Greg Davies’ digital avatar in a facsimile of the Taskmaster house will delight fans of the TV show – once the kinks are ironed out
  • Roots at Almeida theatre

    Look Back in Anger/Roots review – double bill of 1950s gamechanging kitchen sink dramas

  • close up of a man's face

    Scott Bakula on playing Lincoln: ‘The timing made a lot of sense to me’

  • ‘It’s the last thing I wrote drinking’ … rehearsals for Reverberation at Bristol Old Vic.

    ‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage

  • Pioneering women … (l-r) Shobna Gulati, Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta.

    ‘If audiences are crying, I’ve done my job’: closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians

  • Sharon Duncan-Brewster stars in The Loved One, an audio drama directed by Lu Kemp.

    The best theatre to stream this month: James Earl Jones drives Miss Daisy, Ed Harris takes on Sam Shepard

Reviews

  • Robert Downey Jr and Brittany Bellizeare in McNeal. Credit to

    McNeal review – Robert Downey Jr shines in muddled AI-themed play

    The Oscar-winning actor makes a smooth transfer to Broadway but Ayad Akhtar’s play is a mixed bag of insight and exhaustion
  • A strong local angle … Redlands.

    Redlands review – Rolling Stones play second fiddle in 60s culture wars clash

  • Chris Forbes and Kirsty McDuff in Anna/Anastasia.

    Anna/Anastasia review – the seductive delusions of an imaginary duchess

  • The Lieutenant of Inishmore review – the fur flies as Martin McDonagh’s cat-loving thug returns

  • Ginger Johnson Blows Off! review – this crude, fart-fuelled comedy runs out of gas

  • The Mystery of Little Angel Theatre review – Robin Stevens brings juicy intrigue in dynamic whodunnit

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review – all stops are pulled out for Wheeldon ballet

  • To Save the Sea review – Brent Spar oil rig resounds with song in a Greenpeace musical

  • The Cabinet Minister review – perfect timing for a Victorian satire on political freebies

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Dance

  • Emma Portner in rehearsals for Forever, Maybe in Sweden.

    ‘It’s an intensely beautiful moment – then it goes away’: Emma Portner on dance’s raw power

    The choreographer talks about overnight fame, ‘extreme ambition’ and her goofy/serious duet, staged by the National Ballet of Canada
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Comedy

  • Daniel Foxx.

    Daniel Foxx: ‘Every comedian has a notes app with joke ideas – if mine got wiped, my career would be over’

  • Joe Lycett

    Comedian turned artist Joe Lycett: ‘If it’s too earnest a painting, it’s a failure’

  • Portrait of Doon Mackichan.

    ‘I regret being a little bit poor’: Doon Mackichan on stardom, Smack the Pony and never selling out

  • Bec Charlwood, Australian comedian

    Bec Charlwood: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

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Theatre

  • a man in a pale blue suit holds an award

    Gavin Creel, Tony award-winning Broadway star, dies at 48

  • Anjana Vasan and Phil Dunster in rehearsals for Brace Brace at the Royal Court.

    ‘Four seconds from the ground we got lucky’: how a real-life hijacking inspired an edge-of-your-seat drama

  • ‘Made the audience work’ … Arinzé Kene in Misty.

    The play that changed my life: ‘Arinzé Kene’s Misty interrogated society and trusted the audience’

  • ‘Step into your fears is my mantra’ … Norris outside the National Theatre in London.

    ‘You become addicted to pressure’: Rufus Norris on success, stress and the National Theatre’s survival

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Pictures & video

  • Maggie Smith.

    Maggie Smith: a life in pictures

  • A scene from Now by Jasmin Vardimon Company

    Jasmin Vardimon toasts 25 years of dance with Now

    A new creation by the acclaimed choreographer revisits moments from the repertoire of her company, formed a quarter of a century ago
  • Michaela DePrince poses en pointe in front of interior full-length window

    Michaela Mabinty DePrince: a life in pictures

    From war orphan in Sierra Leone to international ballet star – the trailblazing Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer has died aged 29
  • Rachael Gunn

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    'It was really sad': Raygun speaks about reaction to Paris 2024 breakdancing performance

  • man wearing black suit, bowtie and glasses holds two gold statues

    James Earl Jones: a life in pictures

  • Wet Mess performs Testo at Edinburgh Fringe 2024

    Essentially Edinburgh: dance, drag and plenty of drama at the 2024 festival

  • Recirquel: Paradisum

    All eyes on Auld Reekie: Edinburgh festival 2024

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You may have missed

  • ‘Just brilliant fun’ … Hilson Agbangbe in Wonder Boy, directed by Sally Cookson.

    ‘Our Romeo even impressed the school bullies’: stars of stage on the power of drama in schools

  • Keep on the grass … Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Richards’ Redlands cottage in 1967.

    It’s only LSD but I like it: the play telling the untold story about the Rolling Stones drugs bust

    Keith Richards and Mick Jagger’s 1967 raid and trial caused a national storm, seeming to pitch old against young, Establishment against counterculture. But was the real story overlooked? We return to the 60s at their most swinging
  • Not so much eating biscuits in the small hours with the laptop, then … Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine in The Critic.

    ‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

    Ian McKellen plays a theatre reviewer in the 1930s in the new film adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call – but how accurate is it?
  • Bette Bourne performing with the Bloolips at the Drill Hall, London, in 1980.

    Bette Bourne obituary

  • Wicked-themed drinks at the Apollo Victoria theatre

    Doubtfire Daiquiri, madam? How theatres are ramping up the drama with themed cocktails

  • Ian McKellen as Estragon and Patrick Stewart as Vladimir in Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.

    The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

  • From left to right; The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, Natalie Palamides, Why Am I So Single? Writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

    A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

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