Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Search jobs
Sign in

Stage

  • Expendable at Royal Court Theatre - Lena Kaur, Humera Syed

    Review
    Expendable – stories of women caught up in grooming scandal told too briefly

    As reprisals against Pakistani men suspected of abuse rage outside, one family is trapped at home where we are sped through the many issues this raises
  • A scene in the round sees actors singing and dancing on stage under luxurious lighting

    Review
    Spend Spend Spend – punchy revival of a rags to riches to rags tale

  • Sharon D Clarke (Lady Bracknell) and Ncuti Gatwa (Algernon) in The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre.

    Review
    The Importance of Being Earnest – Ncuti Gatwa leads a Wilde party of irresistible anarchic charm

  • You’d be unlikely to find a theatre that is having more fun this Christmas … Jonny Morton, centre, as Hook.

    Review
    Pan: vacuum-packed cast of 800 send Peter, Wendy, Hook and the dog into orbit

  • Michael Billington

    Comment
    Rupert Goold is an audacious innovator. He will make waves at the Old Vic

    Michael Billington
  • Rupert Goold

    News
    Rupert Goold named as next artistic director of Old Vic

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Reviews

  • Emma Mullen as West End Wendy and Star Penders as Peter Panto.

    Peter Panto and the Incredible Stinkerbell review – JM Barrie’s fantasy is joyfully upturned

    There are cursory mentions of crocodiles, clocks and boys who never grow up, but Johnny McKnight’s script charts its own course in a hilariously daft production
  • The two Black men laugh, sitting on the steps, while the white man frowns, smoking

    The Purists review – a neighbourly chat about race, sexuality and the politics of hip-hop

  • actors playing the performance scene towards the end of the sound of music, in full austrian dress

    The Sound of Music review – a joyous blast of song and hope that speaks to today

  • Aladdin review – supermarket panto ticks Aldi boxes but needs a Lidl more laughter

  • The week in theatre: The Red Shoes; Wolves on Road – review

  • The week in dance: MaddAddam; Gigenis: the Generation of the Earth – review

  • Dawns y Ceirw review – the dance of the inquisitive reindeer

  • All’s Well That Ends Well review – Shakespeare’s problem play lays bare clashing passions

  • King James review – courtside view of friendship and LeBron fandom

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Dance

  • Upbeat and convivial … Nobodaddy.

    Michael Keegan-Dolan’s house of dance: ‘I was so caught up with where I’m from – not any more’

    After root-and-branch reworkings of Giselle and Swan Lake, the celebrated Irish choreographer is back with Nobodaddy, a trip ‘through the bottomless pit’
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Comedy

  • Chris McCausland sitting on a chair.

    ‘Strictly terrified me!’ Chris McCausland on self-belief, shame and becoming the star of the show

  • Flashback: Chris & Rosie Ramsey: Now pic: Pål Hansen. Andie Redman. HMU/Grooming: Carol Sullivan at Arlington Talent.

    Chris and Rosie Ramsey look back: ‘The minute our marriage feels like it’s failing because of the strain of the podcast, it stops’

  • Suzi Ruffell

    Suzi Ruffell: ‘If a story is good enough for the pub, I’ll give it a go on stage’

  • Frankie Monroe (Joe Kent-Walters)

    Alternative comedian Joe Kent-Walters: ‘I used to do a strip tease with carrier bags’

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Theatre

  • The third of Eileen Diss’s four set designs for Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, with Donald Pleasence (Davies), left, and Colin Firth (Aston) at the Comedy theatre, London, 1991.

    Eileen Diss obituary

  • Tammy Faye’s Broadway opening in New York … (l-r) Jake Shears, Christian Borle, Katie Brayben, Elton John, Michael Cerveris and the cast.

    Elton John’s musical Tammy Faye to close on Broadway less than a month after opening

  • Sigourney Weaver will play Prospero.

    Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut as Prospero evokes a storm of past Tempests

  • Timothy West at Bristol Old Vic in rehearsals for King Lear in 2016.

    ‘In his company, you never knew what would happen next’: remembering Timothy West

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

From the archive

  • ‘I knew I wasn’t going to get fired!’ … Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked.

    ‘They changed my ending, I felt aghast’: how we made Wicked

    ‘I once performed Defying Gravity at the White House within spitting distance of the Obamas,’ says Idina Menzel. ‘In fact, I might actually have spat on them’

Pictures & video

  • A scene from Maddaddam

    Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet

  • Shklyarov joined Mariinsky Theatre in 2003, became its principal dancer in 2011 and went on to perform all over the world

    2:01

    Vladimir Shklyarov: a look back at the career of the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer – video

    Shklyarov joined Mariinsky Theatre in 2003, became its principal dancer in 2011 and went on to perform all over the world
  • 'We did not consent,' a Guardian documentary by filmmaker Dorothy Allen-Pickard

    We Did Not Consent: a restaging of Britain’s undercover police scandal

    Undercover police officers have infiltrated activist networks and forged relationships with individual women for over 50 years, some fathering children with them. Now, three women – disguised by theatrical masks – who were targeted by ‘spy cops’ seek to take charge of their own stories, restaging emblematic scenes from their lives and reclaiming the narrative
  • Timothy West at the launch of Talking Statues in London, 2014.

    Timothy West – a life in pictures

  • A wisdom mask, monkey mask and okina mask

    Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta

  • Ensemble cast members apply their make-up in 'the bunker' mid-show

    Behind the scenes with The Lion King in London at 25

  • Hadewych van Gent, one of the academy's students, plays her cello for the first time after a repair.

    In the workshop with the Royal Academy of Music’s luthiers

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

You may have missed

  • Acrobats practice outside in a desert in front of a circular metal structure.

    The circus that bought a tiny California town: ‘We’re creating our own Disneyland’

  • The Shakespeare Portraits

    Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

    A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny
  • Clockwise from top left: Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge!, John Turturro, George Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson in O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Danny Sapani as Jason and Helen McCrory as Medea: poet CP Cavafy; Joseph Fiennes as Troilus at the National Theatre.

    ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

    Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit
  • Treasure Island at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

    Deck the stalls! 20 of the UK’s best festive theatre shows

  • Who sent the wrong flowers to Donatella? … Vanessa Williams, centre, as the legendary editor.

    ‘Every minute at Vogue felt like an emergency’: Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger on igniting a scandal

  • Britain at War event at Chiltern Open Air Museum.

    Muskets, chain mail and medieval laundry: behind the boom in historical re-enactment

  • Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City

    Judith Jamison obituary

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed