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1 November 2026

  • In Tosca, a woman in a red skirt kneels onstage while a man in military uniform smiles behind her

    Tosca review – Axelle Fanyo and Christopher Purves shine in ENO’s reimagined Puccini

    A sumptuous score and magnificent singing bring real theatrical electricity, even if the relentless violence and radical reimagining don’t always convince
  • '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’

    The late actor’s co-stars in Logan and Anthony and Cleopatra remember dog impressions, marching band-conducting and a fervent belief in fun
  • French author Gisèle Pelicot, wearing a silk scarf, looks at the camera

    The best theatre to stream this month
    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

31 October 2026

  • Roxanne McDonald, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra, Tyallah Bullock in Before I Forget at Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, October 2026

    Before I Forget review – actors shine in moving story of dementia, language and legacy

    When the three leads share the stage, this poignant new work crackles with energy and wit. But it sags in the moments between
  • 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

    Whether in the immersive haunted horror show Blackout or the campily satisfying 2:22: A Ghost Story, ‘tis the season to be scared witless. Meet the theatre-makers who are putting the horror into Halloween
  • Wicker (2026)

    Going out, staying in
    From Wicker to Zelda: Ocarina of Time: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

    Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård star in a new fantasy romance, and Nintendo’s revered 1998 classic gets a fresh coat of paint

30 October 2026

  • Patrick Stewart performed on stage and screen reaching fans of Shakespeare, sci-fi and action

    Patrick Stewart's extraordinary career from British theatre to Hollywood – video obituary

    Patrick Stewart performed on stage and screen reaching fans of Shakespeare, sci-fi and action
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  • Patrick Stewart as Capt Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: the Next Generation

    Today in Focus
    From Shakespeare to Star Trek: Patrick Stewart’s extraordinary life – The Latest

    Tributes have poured in for Patrick Stewart, who moved seamlessly from British theatre to Hollywood stardom in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw
    Podcast11:41
  • 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

    Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie’s audience participation musical gets toes tapping and bodies spinning – even if its story lacks a little depth

29 October 2026

  • Tom Blyth and Nick Blaemire in A Few Good Men

    A Few Good Men review – Aaron Sorkin’s legal drama makes unwelcome return to stage

    Unconvincing performances and an ill-fitting big stage make a retooled version of the classic courtroom drama feel like a missed opportunity
  • Peter Bradshaw

    Patrick Stewart brought gravitas and complexity to the screen, from Star Trek to X-Men

    Peter Bradshaw
    From Jean-Luc Picard to Charles Xavier, the actor’s Shakespearean training – and that sonorous voice – made him a unique charismatic force in Hollywood

    • Patrick Stewart – a life in pictures

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    • Middlemarch review – World’s Greatest Novel hurtles from deathbed panto to jolting marital tragedy

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

28 October 2026

  • Spotlight shining on stage in theatre

    Brief letters
    Putting short plays under the spotlight

  • Three young women of colour huddled together on dark stage

    Girls review – a story of friendship amidst extreme misogynist violence

  • Vanessa Redgrave as Sister Jeanne in the Devils, kneels in a cross-emblazoned habit, looking upward

    The Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria

  • Paranormal Activity on stage

    ‘Fear is contagious’: why horror shows are taking over the New York stage

27 October 2026

  • 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

  • Judith Clark, in a prison work shirt, stands by a wooden table

    Shabana Mahmood urged to grant visa to former Weather Underground activist

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