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Stage

  • Making simplicity sing … Nafisah Baba and the company in Jazz Conversations at The Place, London.

    Jazz Conversations review – breezy tribute to Miles Davis

    The Body of People Jazz Theatre Company brings together a rich programme, including a celebration of the great trumpeter
  • Lisa Nandy

    Lisa Nandy: Tories’ ‘violent indifference’ to the arts damaged access to culture

  • Painting of Christopher Marlowe

    Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

  • Daniel Foxx.

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

  • Representation of how Eduardo Paolozzi’s black bronze sculpture of Oscar Wilde will look when installed in Chelsea within the next few weeks.

    ‘Absolutely hideous’: new London sculpture of Oscar Wilde condemned by his grandson

  • John Lithgow shot for OM

    ‘I’m an ordinary man who plays crazy parts’: John Lithgow on tackling Roald Dahl

Reviews

  • Prepare to feel like an ace in a fast-shuffled pack … Asi Wind: Incredibly Human.

    Asi Wind: Incredibly Human review – terrific tricks leave you dizzy

    The magician delivers some jaw-dropping moments without quite answering his own question of whether you can deceive people honestly
  • Emotional heart … Tom Sturgess as Albert and Rianna Ash, Chris Milford and Thomas Goodridge as Joey in War Horse.

    War Horse review – still one of British theatre’s most phenomenal creations

  • Country singin’, straight talkin’ … Ramin Karimloo in A Face in the Crowd at the Young Vic, London.

    A Face in the Crowd review – cautionary tale of the creation of a Trump-lite TV star

  • Romeo and Juliet review – diversity doubles the power of Shakespeare’s tragedy

  • The week in theatre; The Lightest Element; The Real Ones – review

  • QDance Company: Re:Incarnation; The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party review – curiouser and curiouser

  • Princess Essex review – black beauty queen turns Edwardian idiocy on itself

  • Waiting for Godot review – Beckett’s classic tragicomedy is more comedic than tragic

  • A Raisin in the Sun review – stirring drama of a family confronting segregation

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Dance

  • ‘The ultimate example of following your dreams’ … ballerina Michaela DePrince.

    ‘The first Black ballerina I found on YouTube’: Precious Adams pays tribute to Michaela DePrince

    DePrince, who has died aged 29, was a ‘beacon of hope’ for dancers, says English National Ballet first soloist
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Comedy

  • Joe Lycett

    Comedian turned artist Joe Lycett: ‘If it’s too earnest a painting, it’s a failure’

  • Portrait of Doon Mackichan.

    ‘I regret being a little bit poor’: Doon Mackichan on stardom, Smack the Pony and never selling out

  • Bec Charlwood, Australian comedian

    Bec Charlwood: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Amy Gledhill, winner of the best comedy show award at the Edinburgh fringe.

    Edinburgh comedy awards champ Amy Gledhill: a delightful standup set for breakout success

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Theatre

  • Cleo Sylvestre photographed at the South Bank, London outside the National Theatre

    From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

  • J Smith-Cameron photographed for the Observer New Review in London

    Succession star J Smith-Cameron: ‘There’s a bewildered vulnerability to middle age that is ripe to be explored’

  • Daisy Edgar-Jones at a screening of On Swift Horses at the Toronto International Film Festival.

    Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  • David Edgar.

    David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

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From the archive

  • ‘It’s really hard to express the pain of not being able to say your own name.’

    Captain Chatter and the stammering student: Ross Willis on his play Wonder Boy

    Our series of extracts from new scripts continues with a play capturing the frustration and worries of 12-year-old schoolboy Sonny

Pictures & video

  • Michaela DePrince poses en pointe in front of interior full-length window

    Michaela Mabinty DePrince: a life in pictures

  • 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
  • man wearing black suit, bowtie and glasses holds two gold statues

    James Earl Jones: a life in pictures

    The actor has died aged 93. His stage and screen career spanned seven decades, and he was known for his signature voice, which brought The Lion King’s Mufasa and Star Wars’ Darth Vader to life
  • Rachael Gunn

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

  • Wet Mess performs Testo at Edinburgh Fringe 2024

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

  • Recirquel: Paradisum

    All eyes on Auld Reekie: Edinburgh festival 2024

  • The Constituent was due to begin just as players were lining up to take penalties to secure a place in the Euros semi-finals

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    James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience

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You may have missed

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

    It’s only LSD but I like it: the play telling the untold story about the Rolling Stones drugs bust

  • Not so much eating biscuits in the small hours with the laptop, then … Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine in The Critic.

    ‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

    Ian McKellen plays a theatre reviewer in the 1930s in the new film adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call – but how accurate is it?
  • Bette Bourne performing with the Bloolips at the Drill Hall, London, in 1980.

    Bette Bourne obituary

    Actor, activist and founder of the radical drag troupe the Bloolips whose performances influenced mainstream theatre
  • Wicked-themed drinks at the Apollo Victoria theatre

    Doubtfire Daiquiri, madam? How theatres are ramping up the drama with themed cocktails

  • Ian McKellen as Estragon and Patrick Stewart as Vladimir in Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.

    The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

  • From left to right; The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, Natalie Palamides, Why Am I So Single? Writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

    A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

  • A rose by any other name … Sian Phillips in Juliet and Her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic.

    ‘A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20’: the new era of age-blind casting

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