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  • Lily Nichol lying on a couch with Ewan Miller leaning over he

    The Rat Trap review – teenage Noël Coward’s jaundiced marital portrait

    Bill Rosenfield reimagines the playwright’s early work about the souring relationship between two newlywed artists
  • Andrew Maillet in Nayatt School Redux by the Wooster Group.

    ‘It’s a fun cocktail!’: the Wooster Group’s head-spinning blend of high and low art

  • (from left) Safiyya Ingar, Marcia Lecky and Sam Baker Jones in Maggots by Farah Najib at the Bush theatre, London.

    Maggots review – tragic tale of a death undiscovered for more than a year

  • 28/01/2026: Pantomime and theatre producer Paul Elliott, passed away on 26 January 2026 at age 84. Theatres across the West End honour the late producer by dimming their lights for two minutes today, remembering a man who produced and co-produced 1,040 shows in the USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australia. Elliott produced over 450 pantomimes within a 45 year period, earning himself the nickname ‘King of Pantomime’. FILE PICTURE: (Stock 1990s) Paul Elliott, a pantomime and theatre producer, designing a set at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.

    Paul Elliott obituary

  • Bridget Christie on stage holding a microphone

    Bridget Christie: Jacket Potato Pizza review – how menopause set the standup free

  • Lucie Jones.

    ‘I was on stage and she started kicking!’: Lucie Jones on Les Mis, performing pregnant and defying gravity at Glastonbury

  • Clare Perkins, centre, in Bacchae at the National Theatre in London.

    The best theatre to stream this month: big and bold Bacchae ushers in new era at the National

Reviews

  • Two men sitting on a couch drinking cans with their heads titled back

    Men Behaving Badly: The Play review – boorish flatmates prattle like it’s 1999

  • Banker bro … Arty Froushan as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho at the Almeida theatre, London.

    American Psycho review – yuppies making a killing offers a chilling origin story for our corrupt times

  • Jess Senanayake and Tyrese Walters in My Brother’s a Genius at the Playhouse, Sheffield.

    My Brother’s a Genius review – neurodivergent twins’ dreams take flight in poetry, grime and dance

  • Stephen K Amos

    Stephen K Amos: Now We’re Talking! review – convivial good fun keeps the laughter flowing

  • Tumultuous … Hannah Ellis Ryan and Charlie Nobel in Private Lives at Hope Mill theatre, Manchester.

    Private Lives review – fizzing chemistry boils over into something more ugly in Noël Coward revival

  • Charlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey in Collaborator at the Place, London.

    Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator review – roll up for a real circus power couple

  • The Tempest at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London.

    The Tempest review – Tim Crouch’s high-concept treatment roughs up the magic

  • The ensemble of Ballad Lines

    Ballad Lines review – heartbreaking, full-throated folk music for the ages

Dance

  • Ivan Putrov dancing as Pierrot Lunaire for the Royal Ballet in 2005.

    ‘At first I was horrified by it!’: the Royal Ballet brings back 60s cult classic Pierrot Lunaire

    Glen Tetley’s fantastical ballet, set to an atonal Schoenberg score, is finally returning to Covent Garden. Dancers Marcelino Sambé and Joshua Junker discuss how they came under its spell
  • A scene from Troubadour by Christopher Bruce part of Modern Milestones by Yorke Dance Project @ Linbury Theatre. Artistica director, Yolande Yorke-Edgell. (Opening 19-01-2026) ©Tristram Kenton 01-26 tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Yorke Dance Project: Modern Milestones review – a bold and brilliant night

  • Heather Lehan, Kaho Masumoto and Nida Aydinoğlu in rehearsal for Gentleman Jack.

    ‘Let’s get raunchy!’ Gentleman Jack, the TV hit about an audacious lesbian landowner, is back as a ballet

  • Seirian Griffiths in Interchange.

    Resolution festival review – admin hell, an epic club night and flamenco voguing

  • The Austen Ball at the Bank of England Museum.

    ‘I almost tripped on the carpet!’ The boom in regency balls

Comedy

  1. Doing it for a laugh … Will Arnett in Is This Thing On?

    ‘It turned out I had a brain tumour …’ Six standup comics on what spurred them to get on stage

  2. Mo Gilligan

    ‘I don’t go around telling people I love the Spice Girls’: Mo Gilligan’s honest playlist

  3. Natalie Palamides in Weer.

    ‘It feels so taboo’: Natalie Palamides on playing both halves of a toxic couple and her shocking next show

  4. Women holding babies watching a performance - some of them are laughing and some are tending to their children.

    Chaos, crying and poo explosions: baby-friendly comedy clubs take off in Britain

Theatre

  • Kai Spackman as Scorpius in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

    Shrinking potion: two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to become single show in London

  • Letitia Wright, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Oh composite.

    Letitia Wright, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Oh to star in National Theatre shows

  • Ben Whishaw, Tom Edden, Lucian Msamati and Jonathan Slinger

    ‘A split second of sheer terror – and we’re off’: Lucian Msamati on Waiting for Godot’s electrifying first night

  • Keala Settle and Hal Fowler in rehearsals for Mrs President.

    Keala Settle on life after The Greatest Showman: ‘I ran from fear – I drank, took pills, all of it’

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Pictures & video

  • Pip Simmons in 1979

    Scene changers: on the road with the experimental Pip Simmons theatre group – in pictures

    The maverick theatre-maker Pip Simmons, who died two years ago aged 80, is captured on stage and off in a book by photographer Sheila Burnett documenting the radical troupe’s years of European touring
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    Punchdrunk’s new mission: inside ‘live action video game’ Lander 23

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  • Jo Foster as Jack in Into the Woods at the Bridge theatre

    Snappily ever after: Sondheim’s fairytale musical Into the Woods

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  • Tom Stoppard in 2023.

    Sir Tom Stoppard – a life in pictures

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  • Cynthia Erivo photographed in 2015

    On the way to Wicked: Cynthia Erivo’s stage musicals

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