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Stage

  • Niamh Cusack stars in That Face.

    The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

    Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble
  • Marianela Nuñez in mid-air, doing the splits with arms thrown back above her head

    Don Quixote review – sunshine, warmth and dazzling technique from the Royal Ballet

  • Dayo Koleosho in Imposter 22.

    Imposter 22 review – deconstructed detective story never quite comes together

  • Nicole Scherzinger

    Nicole Scherzinger: ‘One of my favourite British things is the roasts. Last Sunday I had two’

  • ‘I’ve had so much great good fortune in my life’: Patrick Stewart wears suit by Gabriella Hearst, and shirt by Paul Smith.

    ‘On stage, I could escape’: Sir Patrick Stewart on childhood trauma and acting success

  • Michael Gambon in Krapp's Last Tape at the Duchess theatre in 2010.

    ‘He turned every performance into a masterpiece’
    Readers pay tribute to Michael Gambon

Reviews

  • Benny Young as Moon, Robbie Scott as Will and John Michie as Rennie in Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape.

    Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian take on the Scottish referendum

    An impressive ensemble makes the most of Peter Arnott’s new country house play, set during Scotland’s 2014 independence vote
  • Barry Sloane as Yosser, punching someone, while others look on horrified, in Boys from the Blackstuff.

    The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

  • Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers in t-shirts and leggings leap in front of an overturned silver car with a silver demon figure balanced on it in Black Sabbath the ballet

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: Black Sabbath – The Ballet; English National Ballet: Our Voices – review

    • Rumble in the Jungle Rematch review – immersive recreation aims to leave you reeling

    • Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme Darling Princess review – cartoonishly confident comedy

    • Quiz review – Rory Bremner is an uncanny Chris Tarrant

    • Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical review – Ben Elton’s strange and sentimental snapshot

    • Black Sabbath: The Ballet review – riveting riffs, endless kisses and flying limbs

    • Unbelievable review – Derren Brown presents an evening of magic by proxy

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Dance

  • Juan Pablo Rodriguez, 29 when photographed, lives in Peru’s capital Lima. He is photographed dancing in front of a pink wall

    Ballet v machismo: the male Latin American dancers challenging old-fashioned ideas of manhood

    From Cuba to Peru and beyond, Santiago Barreiro captures the dancers who have upended their countries’ ideas of masculinity while pursuing their dreams
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Comedy

  • ‘I don’t puke before every gig any more so in that sense I have grown’ … Esther Manito.

    Esther Manito: ‘I still stand backstage thinking I should have worked in John Lewis’

  • Russell Brand on stage holding a microphone

    ‘There are dozens of Russell Brands’: female comedians say abuse is rife

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Adrian Edmondson: ‘I’ve won more prizes for vegetables than I have for comedy’

  • David Cross

    David Cross: ‘A lot of people in America would think I’m a terrible father because I believe in diversity’

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Theatre

  • ‘I can usually tell when someone is going to freeze’ … Elisabeth Zumpe helps out Wolfram Koch during Apokalypse at Berlin’s Volksbühne.

    Why is the prompter strolling around the stage? Meet the secret heroes of German theatre

  • ‘I can make a mistake and the world will still turn’ … Langford on stage at the Geilgud.

    ‘I didn’t want to be Bubbly Bonnie Langford for ever’ – the star relives her highs and lows

  • Brilliantly brought out the character’s volatility … Glenda Jackson (King Lear) in King Lear.

    Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

  • ‘A tale for our time’ … (from left) Sean Foley, Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci are bringing Dr Strangelove to the stage.

    Steve Coogan to star in Armando Iannucci’s Dr Strangelove play

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From the archive

  • Michael Gambon interview by Michael Billington - video

    Cast me as a butler with a funny walk
    Michael Gambon interviewed by Michael Billington

    When did Michael Gambon discover that he could act? And what did he learn from working with Olivier, Ayckbourn and Pinter? Michael Billington finds out

Pictures & video

  • Michael Gambon
    His roles on screen and on stage – video obituary

  • Michael Gambon in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

    Michael Gambon: a life in pictures

    The celebrated actor, as accomplished on stage in Shakespeare as he was on screen at Hogwarts, has died at the age of 82. We look back at his career
  • Alex Austin as Jaques waiting for his cue to go on stage

    As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe

    A glimpse behind the scenes of the predominantly young cast of the London theatre’s gender-bending production of As You Like It, directed by Ellen McDougall. The play runs until 29 October
  • Dimanche from Focus Company and Chaliwaté Company

    Edinburgh festival: Polar bears, sex robots and ghosts

  • At the age of 24, Eileen was taken to see a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet. She fell in love with it straight away and has maintained that lifelong romance

    3:02

    How life keeps 108-year-old Eileen Kramer dancing

  • Edy the Clown from Mexico interacts with the crowd during a performance

    Circus Extreme: Tightrope to ensure the show goes on

  • UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey

    Wayne McGregor’s UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey

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You may have missed

  • James Graham and Alan Bleasdale at the Royal Court theatre in Liverpool.

    ‘The despair is the same’
    Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on Boys from the Blackstuff

  • Rafe Spall in Death of England at the National Theatre, London, in 2020.

    ‘We messed with some heads’
    How Death of England tackled a torn nation

    Roy Williams
    As his series co-created with Clint Dyer continues at the National Theatre, the playwright revisits how a Guardian microplay about sport led to a panorama of Britain in tumult
  • A scene from Eun-Me Ahn Company's show, Dragons

    Eun-Me Ahn
    ‘We have this image of long hair, good girl, charming wife – wake up!’

    As she brings her new show, Dragons, to the UK, the innovative choreographer discusses shaking off traditional norms and how shaving her head helped her find her own energy
  • Marina Abramovic poses standing on one of her artworks, entitled 'White Dragon', at the Royal Academy.

    Marina Abramović has broken a 255-year-old glass ceiling. Why did it take so long?

    Hannah Jane Parkinson
  • Black Sabbath The Ballet Sofia Liñares

    Paranoid pirouettes
    Why Black Sabbath: The Ballet is already a headbanging hit

  • Jasper Blakeley at the Small Space, Barry, south Wales.

    ‘I make the cocktails, then jump on stage and do mind reading’
    Britain’s tiniest theatres

  • Michael Frayn.

    Michael Frayn at 90
    A miscellany of the satirical columnist’s finest moments

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