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  • Desperately devout … Brogan Gilbert in Saint Maud.

    Saint Maud review – desire, despair and ‘godgasms’ as Rose Glass’s shocker comes to life

    Brogan Gilbert gives an extraordinary performance as the troubled nurse caring for a terminally ill dancer in a compelling adaptation of the 2019 horror film
  • Brandon Bassir in Land of the Free

    Land of the Free review – deft investigation of a presidential assassin

  • Emma Sidi

    ‘Oh god I’m Sue Gray – don’t, I’m cringing’: comic Emma Sidi brings the embattled civil servant to the stage

  • People gather in front of a red wall filled with Alvin Ailey posters

    Alvin Ailey: new exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of a dance icon

  • Proud day … celebrations in Bradford as it’s named UK City of Culture 2025.

    ‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse

  • Two police dog handlers and a several police vehicles parked on a road

    Drama about hunt for Raoul Moat part of Royal Court’s new season

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    Hold on to Me Darling review – Adam Driver powers electric Kenneth Lonergan play

    The actor makes a compelling lead in the return of the playwright’s textured 2016 play about a celebrity returning home for his mother’s funeral
  • Gizel Jiménez plays one of the Warriors.

    The Warriors review – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis come out to play with firecracker musical

  • He wears a coal miner's helmet and looks devastated

    Odyssey ’84 review – the miners’ strike gets a Homeric twist

  • Come Alive! review – acrobatic spectacle squanders The Greatest Showman’s songs

  • Toto Kerblammo! review – Tim Crouch offers up doggy delight and human heartache

  • The Duchess [of Malfi] review – Jodie Whittaker trapped in Tarantinoesque revenge tragedy

  • Oedipus review – Lesley Manville and Mark Strong electrify ancient saga turned political thriller

  • Becoming Nancy review – coming out musical fails to hit the high notes

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review – charged chat explores Jewish identity

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  • Hofesh Shechter’s Theatre of Dreams.

    Hofesh Shechter: ‘The biggest insult I’ve received is that I’m the rockstar of contemporary dance!’

    As Theatre of Dreams arrives in London, the celebrated choreographer and composer explains how having his laptop stolen was a blessing in disguise for his new show
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  • ‘I’m going to get an AI carer and live on a commune’ … Matafeo.

    ‘I will be hunted down for my Taylor Swift jokes!’ Rose Matafeo on her scary return to standup

  • Celebrity Jeopardy on Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live: the 20 greatest sketches ever

  • Kemah Bob.

    ‘Now I only do dick jokes when I want to’: how Texan standup Kemah Bob found freedom in Britain

  • Daniel Foxx.

    Daniel Foxx: ‘Every comedian has a notes app with joke ideas – if mine got wiped, my career would be over’

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  • Gary Oldman portrait

    Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Beckett classic

  • Adrien Brody and Nick Yarris photographed together in London before the opening of The Fear of 13.

    ‘I could not get through the script without crying’: Adrien Brody talks to the death row survivor who he’s playing on the London stage

  • Michael Patrick as Richard III

    ‘It’s a tragedy because everyone dies – not because he’s disabled’: the creatives casting Richard III in a new light

  • ‘It’s the last thing I wrote drinking’ … rehearsals for Reverberation at Bristol Old Vic.

    ‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage

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Pictures & video

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

    Behind the scenes with The Lion King in London at 25

  • Maggie Smith.

    Maggie Smith: a life in pictures

    Dame Maggie Smith, who has died aged 89, had an incredibly varied career as a star of stage, screen and TV – from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to Downton Abbey to Harry Potter. We look back at her career high points
  • A scene from Now by Jasmin Vardimon Company

    Jasmin Vardimon toasts 25 years of dance with Now

    A new creation by the acclaimed choreographer revisits moments from the repertoire of her company, formed a quarter of a century ago
  • Michaela DePrince poses en pointe in front of interior full-length window

    Michaela Mabinty DePrince: a life in pictures

  • Rachael Gunn

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    'It was really sad': Raygun speaks about reaction to Paris 2024 breakdancing performance

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    James Earl Jones: a life in pictures

  • Wet Mess performs Testo at Edinburgh Fringe 2024

    Essentially Edinburgh: dance, drag and plenty of drama at the 2024 festival

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  • Keep on the grass … Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Richards’ Redlands cottage in 1967.

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