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  • French author Gisèle Pelicot, wearing a silk scarf, looks at the camera

    The best theatre to stream this month: the Gisèle Pelicot trial becomes an all-star play that ‘just floors you’

    An unmissable documentary play, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with luminous Isis Hainsworth and ecstatic dance in a Norwegian museum are among November’s highlights
  • Patrick Stewart as Mark Antony raises his arm and shouts on stage

    ‘Virile star power’: Patrick Stewart’s greatest stage roles, from clowns to kings to wounded lions

    Michael Billington
  • 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' PLAY, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, SWAN THEATRE, STRATFORD UPON AVON, BRITAIN - APR 2006Harriet Walter and Patrick Stewart 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' PLAY, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, SWAN THEATRE, STRATFORD UPON AVON, BRITAIN - APR 2006

    Dafne Keen and Harriet Walter on working with Patrick Stewart: ‘I’ve never seen anyone so ecstatic’

  • Ty Fanning as James and Ami Okumura Jones as Lou in Paranormal Activity.

    Jump scares, leather gloves and squeaking moth noises: theatre horror masters on how they make their shows so scary

  • Cast members of Ceilidh perform in kilts, playing guitar for a clapping audience

    Ceilidh: A New Musical review – a joyous, riotous celebration of Scottish culture gets the audience on its feet

  • Jennifer Saunders and Lucy Briers in period costume talking in a cluttered fabric shop scene

    The Sea review – Jennifer Saunders takes fussing over buying curtains to Shakespearean levels

  • Three young women of colour huddled together on dark stage

    Girls review – a story of friendship amidst extreme misogynist violence

  • Greg Hicks (Halvard Solness), sitting in a chair at a table, and Louisa Binder (Hilde Wangel), sitting on the table among architects drawings, in The Master Builder.

    The Master Builder review – false swagger and queasy infidelity propel Ibsen’s big-drop drama

  • complex image. The ghost of Szpilman seen from behind at an upright piano. In the background, two string players at ground level and Szpilman and Janina elevated

    The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music

  • Derren Brown walks behind two volunteers in Only Human at the Apollo

    Derren Brown turns into Nostradamus – and I predict you’ll submit to one gasp-inducing stunt after another

  • Joseph Taylor dips Ellie Young backwards in Firebird, her costume painted like flames

    Swoon! London City Ballet are positively glowing in a night of dreams – and ghosts from dance history

  • In Lanny, a skeletal masked figure in a ragged costume stands beside a startled Jolie

    Stranger things turn an English village upside down in Max Porter’s rural noir Lanny

  • Flo and Joan sit leaning back against an upright piano, hands raised to the keys above them

    Flo & Joan: With Feeling review – sisters turn an old rock setlist into hilariously neurotic songs

  • Getting Ziggy with it: David Bowie’s alter egos inspire dance show that will transform his songs

    Subject to Change: A Dance for David Bowie will explore how the musician ‘practised a form of artistic reincarnation’, says choreographer Marcos Morau
  • An illustration from The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

    The Snowman gets a hi-tech rebuild – with help from Raging Bull and a ‘Hot Santa’

  • Lucy Guerin dances in her final work for Lucy Guerin Inc, titled Place Dances, at Buxton Contemporary in Melbourne, Australia, October 2026

    After 25 years, Australian dance star Lucy Guerin bows out of the company she founded

  • A performer is held up by two others as they reach up into the air holding some foliage

    From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo – Fierce festival storms back

  • Li Cunxin gazes into the distance, arms crossed, beneath an architectural structure

    Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin on his long-awaited follow-up: ‘I don’t think my publisher expected it to take 14 years!’

  • Jon Richardson stands arms crossed, surrounded by four childhood photographs of himself

    Standup Jon Richardson on turning his dark teenage diaries into a tearjerking memoir: ‘I couldn’t sugarcoat those years’

  • Rowan Atkinson kneels beside a wicker basket of costumes labelled "Rowan Live"

    Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show

  • Sindhu Vee smiles broadly, chin resting on her hand, wearing a mustard dress

    Sindhu Vee: ‘Makeup, music to feel reckless, two pieces of milk chocolate – and then I go on’

  • She stands on stage in a sleeveless, white pinstripe top, holding a microphone in one hand and gesticulating with the other

    A new start after 60: Menopausal and out of work, I sat crying in my car. Now, I’m a standup comedian

  • Dominic Cooper and James Corden perform a classroom scene in The History Boys

    West End to get another lesson from The History Boys two decades on

  • Selina Cartmell, theatre artistic director, sits in a wooden chair, arm resting on its back

    Royal Exchange boss unveils new plays two years after damaging censorship row

  • Lavinia, bloodied and maimed, kneels beside Titus gesturing dramatically in Titus Andronicus

    The play that changed my life: ‘I was the badass queen in Titus Andronicus – we did it like A Nightmare on Elm Street’

  • Jaha Koo

    ‘Jelliness is my life motto’: jackpot theatre prize winner Jaha Koo on kimchi, K-pop and his robotic eel

Pictures & video

  • Isabela Coracy and Ebony Thomas in Ingoma by Mthuthuzeli November from Ballet Black At 25 at Sadler's Wells

    Always on pointe: the bold and beautiful Ballet Black

    It’s a quarter of a century since the company celebrating black and Asian ballet dancers was founded. With an autumn tour in full swing, step back in time through their striking shows
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  • Actors perform by candlelight.

    Candlelit theatre in Havana

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  • Beverley Knight as Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia

    Suffragette cities: blazing Sylvia Pankhurst musical hits the road

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  • Gaten Matarazzo (Mark) in Rent

    A new season of love: hit musical Rent returns to the West End with Gaten Matarazzo

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  • Many Angels by Alvin Ailey

    Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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