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  • Two people dancing on stage, with images of leaves in the background

    Océan Brun review – Caribbean islanders’ lament ripples through Leicester Cathedral

    Part of the Let’s Dance International Frontiers festival, Compagnie Kaméléonite’s piece about the climate crisis features two transfixing performers
  • David Harewood as Othello

    The best theatre to stream this month: David Harewood has unfinished business with Othello

  • Lana Jones with Kevin Jackson in Sleeping Beauty at the Sydney Opera House in 2015

    ‘Do I put Sleeping Beauty on my CV?!’ Ballet dancers on their next steps, from midwifery to the House of Lords

  • Amy Molloy and Louise Parker in rehearsals for Tea in a China Cup

    A peace process thriller, the DUP opera and countless cuppas: Belfast’s Lyric theatre at 75

  • Darren Bennett (left) in Dave Harris’s Tender at Soho theatre

    ‘Infinite pleasure’: the strip club drama that leaves you horny, vulnerable – and dialling your parents

  • Chiara Sparkes in Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In.

    Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In review – galvanising story of landmark factory occupation

  • A man in a plaid shirt is shown speaking from behind while sitting at a table in front of a woman who is listening to him.

    Mass review – forgiveness doesn’t come easily in masterly school-shooter drama

  • Dancers in Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen at Royal Festival Hall, London

    Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen review – MOR tribute to a fashion maverick

  • Cat White as Ruby in Driftwood at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.

    Driftwood review – emotions dialled up to 11 in Trinidadian tale of longing

  • Gerard Horan as Tim, front, and Charlie Beck as Marcus in Firewing at Hampstead theatre

    Firewing review – tale of two twitchers in a bird hide is funny and fascinating

  • Kathy Kiera Clarke (Cara) and Aden Gillett (Dr Jeffrey Longford) in Heartsink by Farine Clarke @ Riverside Studios. Directed by Farine Clarke and Sean Turner. (Opening 24-04-26) ©Tristram Kenton 04-26 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Heartsink review – terminally ill doctor struggles to be a patient

  • Louise Lecavalier, danses vagabondes, Image Credit André Cornellier 3

    Louise Lecavalier: Danses Vagabondes – part witchy raver, part manic pixie dream grandmother

  • Christopher Brett Bailey performing 'I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven' at Soho Theatre

    I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven review – gross, gruesome and sometimes sweet road trip with the devil

  • Linett Kamala with her Basstone Maypole.

    Hey-nonny-bo! The woman reclaiming maypole dancing with dancehall and drum’n’bass

    UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and adding bass bins, LED lights and pounding beats
  • Dancers performing Wayne McGregor's Untitled at the Royal Opera House

    Wayne McGregor: Alchemies review – this spellbinding dancing will make you swoon

  • Yukiko Masui performing in Ronin, holding a katana in atmospheric lighting.

    Ronin review – Yukiko Masui’s swordplay choreography is exhilarating in its cut and thrust

  • Starting a movement … the Olivier-winning Into the Woods benefited from the movement direction of Jenny Ogilvie.

    Give choreographers and movement directors their own awards, says union group

  • A performance by Pointe Black

    Body and sole: ballet must hold on to flat-footed dancers, not stigmatise them

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    ‘We asked Billy Connolly to do 15 minutes. He said “I’ll do as long as I want”’: the sweary, shambolic all-nighter that became Comic Relief

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  • URZILA CARLSON at the London Palladium 12-11-25

    ‘I don’t need to see you naked’: Urzila Carlson on becoming a comedy superstar and fending off horny fans

  • Victoria Wood eating from a bowl in a kitchen scene from 'Wood and Walters'

    ‘She’d been drinking with Julie Walters. I heard a crash’: Victoria Wood’s genius – by her friends, fans and actors

  • A circus ring with performers throwing a man into the air.

    ‘My God, it’s a panic attack to watch’: Giffords Circus on its most dangerous show yet

  • The Lives of Others at the Adelphi theatre, London, is set to star (from left) Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley and Luke Thompson.

    Keira Knightley returns to West End in adaptation of Oscar winner The Lives of Others

  • Cynthia Erivo in Dracula at the Noël Coward theatre in London.

    Cynthia Erivo interrupts Dracula performance after spotting audience member’s camera

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    Rachel Zegler’s award-winning Evita to hit Broadway in 2027

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    Eyes on the prize! Backstage at the Olivier awards

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