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  • Billy Crudup in Harry Clarke.

    Harry Clarke review – Billy Crudup dives into ‘the deep end of sexy’ in tricksy tale

    A timid midwesterner adopts a geezerish British persona in David Cale’s often shrewdly observed yet meandering monologue
  • Robby Hoffman at Soho theatre, London.

    Robby Hoffman review – New Yorker unleashes her nerd-jock shtick

  • Steve Paxton (left) and Merce Cunningham performing Antic Meet in 1963.

    Steve Paxton obituary

  • An event at the 2019 Vault festival under Waterloo Station.

    ‘We are devastated’: London’s Vault festival to close after funding falls through

  • Sarah Jessica Parker applies makeup as she looks into a mirror as she prepares for her role in Plaza Suite at the Savoy theatre, London.

    Sarah Jessica Parker and David Tennant among 2024 Olivier nominees

  • Betty Cook

    ‘It was hard – but there was lots of laughter’: women’s stories of the miners’ strike told on tour

  • yle Rowe as the king in Richard, My Richard at Shakespeare North Playhouse.

    Richard, My Richard review – less naked villainy, more realpolitik

    In novelist Philippa Gregory’s telling, the much maligned king reveals a more human side amid rather too much exposition
  • Ladies Down Under at the New Vic.

    Ladies Down Under review – sisters redrawing life for themselves

  • Khai Shaw, Katie Donnachie and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens in Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet review – beatboxing lovers in full flow

  • Leigh Francis: My First Time review – cacophonously unfunny with the emphasis on cack

  • The Crucible review – a deeply affecting take on Arthur Miller’s American classic

  • Northern Ballet: Romeo & Juliet review – iconic love story told in all its full-blooded glory

  • Ben and Imo review – Mark Ravenhill races Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst towards a coronation deadline

  • The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

  • Far from the Norm: Until We Sleep; Ballet National de Marseille & La(Horde): Roommates – review

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  • ‘A strange and flawed novel’ … Jonathan Goddard and Cordelia Braithwaite star in Frankenstein.

    The monster mash: Frankenstein is reanimated for dance, stitched together with Greek myths

    The choreographer, writer, dancer and musician’s multifaceted, repetitive approach to art-making is nowhere more evident than in his new show, which kicks off this week in Frome
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  • A special place in people’s hearts … Janey Godley.

    Janey review – behind-the-scenes doc shows standup at her hilarious and heartfelt best

  • ‘It’s hard to find him as funny’ … comedian Louis CK performing in 2017.

    ‘The outrageousness of what Louis CK did is totally lost’: the film about the backlash faced by his accusers

  • Jerrod Carmichael on Saturday Night Live in 2022.

    Jerrod Carmichael is a superb standup – if only he’d stop checking his phone on stage

  • Hannah Gadsby chilling out on a white rug

    Hannah Gadsby on culture wars, pot-stirring and Picasso: ‘I created that circus. I don’t need to watch it’

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  • ‘Unapologetically herself’ … Rowan Robinson as Jo in A Taste of Honey.

    ‘Unbelievably relevant’: what can the explosive 1958 play A Taste of Honey tell us today?

  • Culver as Donald Maclean in the 1977 documentary drama about the Cambridge spies, Philby, Burgess and Maclean.

    Michael Culver obituary

  • Prize-winning playwright Ava Pickett

    Ava Pickett’s drama of female friendship in Tudor England wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize

  • Denise Gough in People, Places and Things in 2016.

    Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

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From the archive

  • Edward Bond

    Edward Bond: ‘Our theatre trivialises or generalises – both are forms of sleaze’

    From the archive: In this piece first published on 28 June 1995, the late playwright asks if Shakespeare was a Tory and suggests writers should run a stage at the National Theatre

Pictures & video

  • Joseph Sissens rehearsing Dark With Excessive Bright at Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

    Dark With Excessive Bright: the Royal Ballet’s giant leap into immersive dance

  • Chita Rivera in 1999.

    Chita Rivera – a life in pictures

    The Broadway star has died aged 91. Revisit her glittering career, including West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.<br>KPH2P7 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.

    Shirley Anne Field: a life in pictures

    The actor best known for her role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, has died aged 87. Here we look back at her life and career
  • Zephaniah used his career to address political injustice through poetry

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    The life and rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah – video obituary

  • Louis McCartney (Henry Creel), Ella Karuna Williams (Patty Newby) - photo by Manuel Harlan Stranger Things: The First Shadow production images

    The West End turns upside down … Stranger Things: The First Shadow

  • A scene from Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate at Sadler's Wells.

    Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

  • Posters for The Curious Incident, The White Devil and Coriolanus

    National Theatre at 60, from Hamlet to Dear England – in posters

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  • Beverley Knight … ‘You’ve got to come out swinging.’

    ‘I was cancelled’: Beverley Knight on gay rights, race and her West End renaissance

  • Behind the scenes with Sarah Jessica Parker as she prepares for her role as KAREN NASH / MURIEL TATE / NORMA HUBLEY in Plaza Suite at the Savoy Theatre, London. London. Photograph by David Levene 25/2/24. Additional processing by David McCoy, Guardian Imaging.

    Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

    Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …
  • Nicola Benedetti extending her arms on stage

    Edinburgh festival slashes ticket prices to increase youth participation

    International festival director Nicola Benedetti says new manifesto is designed to make event more open and affordable
  • Charithra Chandran.

    ‘I have big ambitions’: Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran on her West End shocker

  • Rosy Carrick

    Arnie, Dolph and me: Musclebound, the show working out pleasure, pain and bodybuilding

  • Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens at the Comedy theatre, London, in 2000.

    Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

  • ‘I need to prove I’m not that person’ … Smith as Myrtle Gordon in Opening Night.

    ‘It’s so close to the bone’: Sheridan Smith on her very public meltdown – and reliving it on stage

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