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

    Review
    Salty Brine – daring diva mashup with hella pizzazz

    The drag queen’s latest intermingling of Annie Lennox covers, southern gothic literature, Judy Garland and family anecdotes is a bravura feat of idiosyncratic connection
  • ‘People like me can do this’ … Sheehy, left, with Hannah Morrish in The Brightening Air.

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

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

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

  • a young woman smiles and looks over her shoulder in a high school classroom

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

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    Obituaries
    Jean Marsh obituary

  • Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in Torvill &amp; Dean: Our Last Dance.

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

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Reviews

  • a man in woman sitting on the end of a bed during play

    The Last Five Years review – Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren soar in relationship musical

    The cult favorite musical, about a doomed couple, gets a mostly impressive new staging, lifted by two magnetic performances
  • 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

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

  • The week in theatre: Manhunt; Jab – review

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

  • Shanghai Dolls review – treachery and affinity between the women of Mao’s world

  • Midnight Cowboy: A New Musical review – gigolo and conman bromance builds to a shocking climax

  • All the Happy Things review – an unbreakable sisterly bond in tender three-hander

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Dance

  • ‘Big and bold’ … musician Sufjan Stevens.

    Royal Ballet to perform Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, with music by Sufjan Stevens

    Director Kevin O’Hare announces staging of NYCB choreographer Peck’s 2014 piece, as well as new works by Akram Khan and Cathy Marston
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Comedy

  • ‘I’m not crying!’ … the much-changed Sarah Silverman, whose new show is called Postmortem.

    Sarah Silverman: ‘I stole material from my dad’s funeral!’

  • The podcast host, Mark O'Sullivan, sitting on a park bench

    ‘I’m welling up thinking about it’: how a comedian used humour to beat trauma – and made it into a podcast

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    Chloe Petts: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Paul Chowdhry

    Police called out after fight at Essex comedy gig

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Theatre

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From the archive

  • Mike Bradwell, David Hatton and Peter Nicholson in Oh What! at Hull Truck.

    ‘I wanted to be a nuisance’: the riotous rise of Hull Truck

    Mike Bradwell
    From its origins 50 years ago in a clapped-out van and a house with broken furniture and feral cats, the theatre company won accolades and abuse in equal measure

Pictures & video

  • Tom Burke and Cate Blanchett wait in the wings before presenting an award

    You gotta wear shades: backstage at the Olivier awards

  • Adrien Brody and his mother, the photographer Sylvia Plachy, at the Royal Albert Hall

    Stars come out for the Olivier awards

    Nominees, presenters and guests arrive for London theatre’s big night out at the Royal Albert Hall
  • Natalia Osipova and Christopher Akrill in The Exhibition by Jo Strømgren part of Osipova/Linbury @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House. (Opening 06-03-2025) ©Tristram Kenton 02-25 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Natalia’s night: Royal Ballet puts the spotlight on Osipova

    Natalia Osipova stars in a special programme at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre this month. We step into rehearsals
  • Steve Coogan's preparations for Dr Strangelove at the Noël Coward Theatre.

    Behind the curtain: what really goes on in theatre dressing rooms?

  • Madame Rosepettle’s ball gown from Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad

    Showstopping sketches: Patricia Zipprodt’s legendary costume designs

  • Becs Black

    Drag kings strut the stage in They Will be Kings

  • Valentina Fittipaldi, centre, in Encantado by Lia Rodrigues.

    Infinite possibilities: the Rose International Dance prize

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You may have missed

  • ‘I care about how it permeated day-to-day life’ … Pickett at the Almeida, where 1536 will be staged.

    ‘I don’t buy it’ … Ava Pickett on her play about Anne Boleyn’s treason and incest

  • David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Max Webster’s 2023 production of Macbeth at Donmar Warehouse, London.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Macbeth, Life of Pi, Playhouse Creatures and more

    David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s highlights
  • ‘I’ve whipped up the mob and can’t control it!’ … Minnitt onstage as Clementine.

    A spoof universally acknowledged: comic Rosalie Minnitt on her bonnet-crazed Jane Austen parody

    The standup is hitting new heights of pastiche with Clementine, a riotous one-woman show about a Regency belle seeking a tailcoated beau. As the Edinburgh hit goes on tour, Minnitt explains why her mum’s doing the driving
  • ‘We haven’t bought our flight tickets yet’ … Natasha, left, and Xhloe.

    ‘Our show fits in a duffel bag’: clowning duo Xhloe and Natasha on scoring a triple fringe whammy

  • Chanel DaSilva.

    Keep dancing: Chanel DaSilva on taking risks, dealing with grief and tackling Trump

  • Steven McRae as Romeo and Sarah Lamb as Juliet at the Royal Opera House in 2015.

    ‘My career flashed before my eyes’: Steven McRae’s devastating onstage injury and proud return as Romeo

  • How far would you go for the shot? … a flooding river in the Highlands.

    ‘One slip and I’d be lost in the flood’: shocking report reveals dangers of jobs in the arts

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