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  • Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski, in costume, sit drinking tea on a sofa

    Hay Fever review – Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski host Coward’s country house shenanigans

    Grant brings shock-haired vigour as a vain novelist forced to welcome his boho children’s surprise guests in comedy of clipped social embarrassment
  • Dancers from Faye Driscoll's Weathering sprawl and climb over a mattress, one lifted upside down

    Orgy, apocalypse and exorcism: Faye Driscoll’s revolving bed puts everyone in a spin

  • Gillian Anderson as Martha sits holding a cigarette, wearing a fuzzy cardigan on stage. in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? @sohoplace, London.

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Gillian Anderson fights tooth and nail in marital meltdown

  • Fraser Sivewright, Gavin Jon Wright, Kevin Lennon and Lewie Watson perform in period costume on stage

    Whaur’s Yer Wullie Shakespeare Noo? review – when John Home outdid Stratford’s Bard

  • Novelist Susanna Clarke, in a tweed coat, stands outdoors near a stone wall in the Peak District

    RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

  • Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden stand face to face, close together, in David Ireland’s The Fifth Step

    The best theatre to stream this month: Jack Lowden locks horns with Martin Freeman in The Fifth Step

  • Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked, raising a fist and broomstick amid dramatic blue smoke

    ‘They’ll never bring us dowwwwwwwn!’ Wicked’s stars pick their favourite songs from the smash hit

  • Phil Corbitt holds a giant "COLIN" sign, laughing, as a woman watches

    All at Sea review – faked death of ‘canoe man’ inspires waves of intrigue

  • Pip Carter and Rory Kinnear, in vintage clothing, sit laughing together on a chair on stage in a performance of James Graham's play The Standard of Living

    The Standard of Living review – Rory Kinnear has bags of charm as Bloomsbury economist Keynes

  • A woman stands with arms outstretched on soil, others kneel nearby, news headlines projected above

    The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media) review – bold but uneven focus on Palestinian voices

  • Siobhán Redmond in Happy Days, buried in sand, gestures joyfully in a feathered hat

    Happy Days review – Beckett’s bewitching heroine buries her existential fears

  • Jesse Tyler Ferguson in a velvet dressing gown sitting on a floral sofa and talking on the phone

    Tru review – a five-star performance of a three-star script about the life of Truman Capote

  • Munya Chawawa as Bottom, in crown and toga, poses with a sword onstage

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Munya Chawawa bewitches in lovingly juiced-up 90s rave

  • Catherine Bohart speaks into a microphone, wearing a checked sleeveless dress on stage

    Catherine Bohart: Borrowing Trouble review – obsessive compulsion to overshare is captivatingly funny

  • Simon Russell Beale, in a feathered cape, sings at a glittery piano beside a candle-holding nun

    I’ll Be Seeing You review – Simon Russell Beale’s Liberace is a life force too great to be tamed

  • Choreographers Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple sit together on the floor

    ‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes

    In the choreographers’ new work, virtuosic movement and some green-screen magic unfurl the theatricality of high-stakes television interviews
  • Ballerina Natalia Osipova rests her chin on her hand against a yellow background

    Can a ballerina do a stomp? Natalia Osipova on making her fearsome, foul-mouthed acting debut

  • Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds, wearing a mesh outfit, dancing, in a black and white photograph

    She was the Royal Ballet’s first ‘young choreographer’ – Charlotte Edmonds’ next 10 years show how dance is changing

  • Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan sit cross-legged on a floor, facing each other in conversation

    In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan

  • Liam Riddick and Elly Braund in Chacony

    Richard Alston’s dance illuminated the music, let you delight in the moment – and stole my heart

    Lyndsey Winship
  • Sindhu Vee smiles broadly, chin resting on her hand, wearing a mustard dress

    Sindhu Vee: ‘Makeup, music to feel reckless, two pieces of milk chocolate – and then I go on’

  • Chris Cantrill, Edinburgh 2026

    ‘Finally, a victory for the middle-aged white man!’ Chris Cantrill on winning the Edinburgh comedy award

  • He sits on the floor holding up a scroll of rust-coloured paper that's being using as a backdrop, as though it has fallen on him

    ‘I remember going: oh hello!’ Dara Ó Briain on comedy, coolness, cruelty and finding his birth parents

  • Comedian Ahir Shah, with glasses and a beard, holds a colourful embroidered umbrella outdoors

    ‘I’m not Mr Saturday Night’: the highbrow brilliance of Ahir Shah, past winner of comedy’s top prize

  • Jammz, Debris Stevenson and Cassie Clare in Poet In Da Corner by Debris Stevenson @ Royal Court. Directed by Ola Ince. (Opening 25-09-18) ©Tristram Kenton 09-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The play that changed my life: ‘Grime was ostracised but the Royal Court saw it as an art form – and made me a better MC’

  • Page at the Longacre Theatre, New York, on the opening Night of Edward Albee's revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, March 2005.

    Anthony Page obituary

  • Sacha Baron Cohen in a cream suit and tie smiles while buttoning his jacket

    Sacha Baron Cohen lined up for Quentin Tarantino’s West End playwriting debut

  • Paterson Joseph, as Brutus Jones

    The Gate theatre’s creative daring gave a tiny stage international scope

    Michael Billington

Pictures & video

  • Many Angels by Alvin Ailey

    Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

    The always revelatory dance company is at Sadler’s Wells in London this month with two programmes, celebrating their legacy and presenting ‘heavenly’ new works
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  • Nair Schinca and Nicolas Schell dance after winning the stage category at the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    Only connect: World Tango Championships finals

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  • A dancer balances upside down while a fellow performer supports his raised leg

    Let's go outside! Greenwich + Docklands international festival

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  • Niall Egan and Monique Jonas in Richard Alston's, Voices and Light Footsteps @ Sadler's Wells. Richard Alston Dance Company. (Opening 7&8-03-20) ©Tristram Kenton 03/20 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Poetry in motion: Richard Alston’s spellbinding dances

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  • Five old friends who used to be showgirls, on the seafront in Eastbourne, UK

    The showgirl sisterhood: five former variety stars look back at their wild careers

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  • Ornate red and gold interior of Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with tiered balconies and decorative stage curtain

    In support of the fourth wall: proscenium arch theatre’s surprisingly radical history

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