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  • Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe

    Romeo and Juliet review – overbearing directorial stamp saved by Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe’s chemistry

    Young stars perfectly encapsulate the uncompromising nature of first love in Robert Icke’s production
  • Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare in Edward Bond’s play Bingo at the Minerva theatre, Chichester

    The best theatre to stream this month: Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare’s sonnets – all 154 of them

  • Johannes Radebe as Lola performing in Kinky Boots The Musical at London Coliseum

    Kinky Boots: The Musical review – Strictly’s Johannes Radebe is a perfect fit

  • Tamm Reynolds in character as Midgitte Bardot - pulling a wheelie bin down a suburban street in Woolwich.

    ‘If I didn’t have dwarfism, I’d probably be quite normcore’: Midgitte Bardot on sex, drag and street harassment

  • Alan Cox as Rupert Murdoch and Claudia Jolly as Brenda Dean of the print union Sogat face each other

    In the Print review – Rupert Murdoch hits trade unions with fake news in tense thriller

  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal in Dog Day Afternoon

    Dog Day Afternoon review – Broadway take on heist can’t match Pacino’s punch

  • George Fouracres as Sir Keir Starmer on SNL UK.

    From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres

  • Julia Watson, Abigail Thaw and Catherine Cusack in The Old Ladies

    The Old Ladies review – spite, greed and nerves in a rickety boarding house

  • Jajas Dolapo Oni, babirye bukilwa, Sewa Zamba, Karene Peter, Jadesola Odunjo, Bola Akeju, Dani Moseley Jaja's African Hair Braiding

    Jaja’s African Hair Braiding review – crowd-pleasing energy, charisma and expert comic timing

  • Harry Enfield 17.12.25

    Harry Enfield and No Chums! review – the head of our comedy state takes a trip down memory lane

  • The three actors each standing on one leg, with the other in the air, and Pavey is holding a guitar

    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) review – this brevity is the soul of wit

  • Miya James, Holly Howden Gilchrist, Lauryn Ajufo and Clare Hughes in John Proctor Is the Villain

    John Proctor Is the Villain review – Arthur Miller’s classic sparks a #MeToo moment

  • Katie Payne in My Mix(ed-Up) Tape at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot.

    My Mix(ed-Up) Tape review – fury on the dancefloor at fiery Welsh wedding

  • Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt

    The Last Five Years review – Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt make time stand still

  • Dean John-Wilson in A Mirrored Monet at Charing Cross theatre, London.

    A Mirrored Monet review – painter reflects on his past in a musical with heart and humour

  • A group of people striking a vivid pose on stage, smiling, dressed in yellow and orange against a blue background

    A moment that changed me: I thought my Parkinson’s was the end of my life, but dancing changed everything

    The moment I stepped into English National Ballet’s studio, I stopped being just a patient. Among fellow spirits, I have rediscovered my sense of joy and agency
  • Omari Douglas, Nathaniel Curtis, Olly Alexander, Callum Scott Howells and Lydia West in It’s A Sin, which aired on Channel 4 in 2021.

    Russell T Davies’s hit TV series It’s a Sin to be adapted as ‘visceral’ dance show

  • A performance by Pointe Black

    Body and sole: ballet must hold on to flat-footed dancers, not stigmatise them

  • Crystal Pite

    ‘Having 36 dancers waiting for me fills me with dread’: choreographer Crystal Pite on her seminal productions

  • ‘It has been one of the best decades in my life’ … Diego Robirosa.

    ‘How incredibly stimulating!’ Retirees on discovering a new world through dance

  • Mark Simmons

    Mark Simmons: ‘A lot of brilliant comedy shows tackle world issues – that’s not what this is!’

  • Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French at a red carpet event

    ‘It won’t be pretty!’ French and Saunders to play the Ugly Sisters in Palladium panto

  • Fatiha El-Ghorri

    Fatiha El-Ghorri: ‘I was mortified by my heckler – but it turned out he wanted to see my trainers’

  • Sam Lanier, Will Niedmann, Felipe Di Poi and Caroline Yost of Simple Town

    ‘Four teens in their 30s!’ Lovable New York comedy gang Simple Town land in London

  • Brendan Gleeson holding a drink in The Weir.

    Brendan Gleeson wins best actor as Critics’ Circle theatre awards toasts The Weir

  • Italian playwright Dario Fo tips his hat at the Edinburgh Book Festival

    Dario Fo at 100: a deliriously funny playwright with a deadly serious purpose

  • Actors in rehearsal for the London production of Lifeline, with one standing on a chair.

    Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together

  • Actor Richard Kind is making a guest appearance in the West End production of The Producers. For Arts. Photo by Linda Nylind. 6/3/2026.

    ‘I’m a big bear. I lumber’: showbiz superstar Richard Kind on delivering performances you can see from space

Pictures & video

  • My Neighbour Totoro

    ‘Happy as can be!’ My Neighbour Totoro toasts first birthday in London’s West End

    The spectacular stage version of Studio Ghibli’s much-loved film has spent a year at the Gillian Lynne theatre in London. To celebrate, photographer Tristram Kenton was granted backstage access
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  • Jo Foster as Jack in Into the Woods at the Bridge theatre

    Snappily ever after: Sondheim’s fairytale musical Into the Woods

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  • Pip Simmons in 1979

    Scene changers: on the road with the experimental Pip Simmons theatre group – in pictures

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  • Tom Stoppard in 2023.

    Sir Tom Stoppard – a life in pictures

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  • Cynthia Erivo photographed in 2015

    On the way to Wicked: Cynthia Erivo’s stage musicals

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    ‘It feels like flying!’ Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe on child stardom, passion and the heady rush of Romeo and Juliet

  • Jane Lapotaire in Pam Gems’s play at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s the Other Place, Stratford, in 1978.

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