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17 April 2025

  • Either hiding or have hidden … Victoria Smurfit as Helena and Rhashan Stone as Anderson in Ghosts

    Ghosts review – gasps and laughter greet this modern revamp of Ibsen’s shocker

  • a woman with red hair in front of a wall covered in post-it notes

    Is it curtains up on a new generation on Broadway?

  • Lou Wall, comedian

    Lou Wall: Breaking the Fifth Wall review – a silly and profound standup masterpiece

  • Salty Brine in These Are The Contents Of My Head at Soho theatre, London.

    Salty Brine review – daring diva mashup with hella pizzazz

16 April 2025

  • Tom Gleisner wearing dark navy jacket over pale blue shirt stands in a corridoor lined with posters, smiling.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Tom Gleisner: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    The comedian and television presenter shares his subjective selections for laugh-out-loud moments, from stage fails and pollie pratfalls to on-air gaffes and priceless vintage TV clips
  • As if he is perplexed by the script … Steve Coogan and penguin in The Penguin Lessons.

    The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

    Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina
  • ‘People like me can do this’ … Sheehy, left, with Hannah Morrish in The Brightening Air.

    ‘To hell with RP’ … how surprise Olivier nominee Rosie Sheehy is following in Richard Burton’s footsteps

    To survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot’s extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent – and everything changed

15 April 2025

  • Jean Marsh<br>Lesley-Anne Down &amp; Jean Marsh Television: Upstairs, Downstairs (TV-SERIE) Uk 1971-1975, 04 July 1973 A40A2T Allstar Picture Library/LWT **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of LWT and/or the Photographer assigned by the TV or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above TV Programme. A Mandatory Credit To LWT is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the TV Company.

    Jean Marsh obituary

    Actor and co-creator of the classic 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs
  • Cate Blanchett at the Olivier awards this month.

    ‘I’m giving up’: Cate Blanchett says she is retiring from acting

    The actor has a string of films on the way, but insists her plan to quit is ‘serious’ and she has other plans for her life
  • a young woman smiles and looks over her shoulder in a high school classroom

    John Proctor Is the Villain review – smart and snappy high school comedy

    Stranger Things star Sadie Sink takes the lead in a wonderfully written new Broadway show about high schoolers grappling with hot potato issues in 2018

14 April 2025

  • Here I go again … Sara Poyzer as Donna in Mamma Mia!, a role she played for 10 years.

    Super troupers! How do stars of long-running hits from Mamma Mia! to The Lion King keep the pizzazz pumping?

    Can you imagine starring in Mamma Mia! for 10 years? Or The Lion King for 17? Or Blood Brothers for 26? Theatre’s epic endurance performers reveal how they keep the magic alive night after night
  • A sense of dread … l to r, Mark Huberman as Richard, Canice Doran as Daniel, Lisa Dwyer Hogg as Hazel and Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle as Annie in Our New Girl.

    Our New Girl review – Irish nanny triggers mayhem in gruellingly tense domestic noir

    Nancy Harris, the writer of acclaimed dark comedy The Dry, reveals her early mastery of family power games in this taut new production of her 2012 play that feels fresh and relevant
  • Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in Torvill &amp; Dean: Our Last Dance.

    Torvill & Dean: Our Last Dance review – Olympic champs’ classy glide down memory lane

    This highlight reel of totemic routines interspersed with some dazzling cast numbers showcases the couple’s former greatness and timeless elegance

13 April 2025

  • Thanks for Having Me, Riverside, 2025. Keelan Kember and Kedar Williams-Stirling Credit Oliver Kember

    Thanks for Having Me review – charming male look at dating contrasts with age of Andrew Tate

  • An Asian man looks up, flanked by two Asian women and a man; two of the people are reaching up to his face

    Speed review – comic tale of road rage and race is approachably provocative

  • Hamzeh Al Hussien in Penguin.

    Penguin review – revealing one-man show about a refugee’s journey to self-acceptance

  • Man of the match… Peter Mullan, centre, as Bill Shankly in Red or Dead.

    Red or Dead review – Peter Mullan tackles Bill Shankly in uneven adaptation

  • The week in theatre: Manhunt; Jab – review

  • Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work

  • Trajal Harrell: The Köln Concert review – Keith Jarrett’s bestselling 70s jazz album made visible

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