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Stage

  • The Cat and the Canary at Minerva theatre, Chichester.

    The Cat and the Canary review – 1920s mystery stuffed with preposterous pleasures

    Colourful characters gather for a will reading in this horror-comedy, given a larky update with stylish sequences
  • Hofesh Shechter’s Theatre of Dreams.

    Hofesh Shechter: ‘The biggest insult I’ve received is that I’m the rockstar of contemporary dance!’

Reviews

  • Aisling Kearns, J Smith-Cameron, Mark Rylance and Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty in Juno and the Peacock.

    Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner

    Rylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the long-suffering wife
  • Citizen of the world … Khalid Abdall in Nowhere at Battersea Arts Centre.

    Nowhere review – an audacious and radical message for peace

  • Michael Sheen at @sohoplace, London.

    White Rabbit Red Rabbit review – a game Michael Sheen hops to it

  • Bright Lights Over Bentilee review – UFO show shines a light on Stoke

  • The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada review – dreamscapes and new realities

  • Birmingham Royal Ballet: Luna review – kaleidoscopic quintet shoots for the moon

  • The Little Prince review – twinkling spin on Saint-Exupéry’s flight of fantasy

  • National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers review – heavenly revelations and indie spaghetti

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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

  • Taskmaster: The Live Experience, press, publicity photo

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

  • 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

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Theatre

  • Brogan Gilbert, Dani Arlington and Neshla Caplan in rehearsals for Saint Maud at Live theatre, Newcastle.

    ‘We want to put audiences on edge’: the team bringing A24 horror film Saint Maud to the stage

  • ‘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

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

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

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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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  • 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

    The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party
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    Dame Maggie Smith obituary

    A distinguished, double Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter
  • ‘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

  • 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?

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