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Stage

  • Dulcé Sloan wearing a red dress and speaking into a microphone.

    Dulcé Sloan review – former Daily Show correspondent’s dispatches from family life

    UK-specific jokes land well as Sloan shapes the energy in a packed room with a slightly incoherent show held together by her charisma
  • Sarah Cameron-West in Karen.

    Karen review – to hell and back with an ex and the office nemesis

  • ‘We haven’t bought our flight tickets yet’ … Natasha, left, and Xhloe.

    ‘Our show fits in a duffel bag’: clowning duo Xhloe and Natasha on scoring a triple fringe whammy

  • people dancing on stage in red-tinted lighting

    Buena Vista Social Club review – exuberant yet dramatically thin Broadway musical

  • Helga Paris-Morales and Isabela Coracy in My Sister, the Serial Killer

    ‘Like seeing an old friend’: Oyinkan Braithwaite on My Sister, the Serial Killer becoming a ballet

  • With her hand in a gun shape, she points right in his face as he raises his arms as if to surrender

    The Mosinee Project review – cold war hoax drama has fun with communist cosplay

Reviews

  • The healing touch … Tane Siah (Bukayo Saka) and Gwilym Lee (Gareth Southgate) in Dear England.

    Dear England review – footballing reboot adds extra time for Gareth Southgate’s exit

    James Graham has rewritten parts of his hit play to reflect the 2024 Euros, and the gaffer emerges as a progressive, gentle, alternative national leader
  • L to r, Sebastien Torkia, James Daly and Dianne Pilkington in Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors.

    Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors review – batty antics with a Rocky Horror bloodsucker

  • Julian Brett and Ryn Alleyne in The LeftBehinds.

    The LeftBehinds review – dystopian thriller finds the National Theatre firing on all cylinders

  • Ballet Black: Shadows review – killer moves in a dance adaptation of murderous blockbuster

  • Wild Rose review – Glasgow meets Nashville in big-hearted country musical

  • The week in theatre: The Seagull; Punch – review

  • The week in dance: Trisha Brown Dance Company & Noé Soulier: Working Title & In the Fall; Osipova/Linbury – review

  • Cry-Baby, the Musical review – John Waters’ teen rebels will have you in tears of joy

  • Shabaz Ali: I’m Rich, You’re Poor review – TikTok taunts getting a little threadbare

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Dance

  • Oti Mabuse, photographed by Suki Dhanda for The Guardian, February 2025

    ‘We grew up among drugs and violence. Dance kept us focused’: Oti Mabuse on Strictly, survival and self-belief

    When Mabuse lost her brother, dance helped her grieve. Then it made her a star. She talks about her childhood in South Africa, life in Britain, and the ‘full-on’ training for her new tour
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Comedy

  • ‘I’ve whipped up the mob and can’t control it!’ … Minnitt onstage as Clementine.

    A spoof universally acknowledged: comic Rosalie Minnitt on her bonnet-crazed Jane Austen parody

  • Shona McCarthy pictured in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 17 February 2025.

    The Guardian view on the Edinburgh fringe: it’s no joke – festivals need investment

  • Eddie Kadi, press, publicity photo

    Eddie Kadi: ‘People think I’m always ready to crack jokes. If you’re a doctor, I don’t ask you to operate on me!’

  • Ryan Moore on stage at a comedy club

    UK child sexual abuse survivors take standup comedy courses

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Theatre

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Pictures & video

  • Natalia Osipova and Christopher Akrill in The Exhibition by Jo Strømgren part of Osipova/Linbury @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House. (Opening 06-03-2025) ©Tristram Kenton 02-25 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Natalia’s night: Royal Ballet puts the spotlight on Osipova

  • Steve Coogan's preparations for Dr Strangelove at the Noël Coward Theatre.

    Behind the curtain: what really goes on in theatre dressing rooms?

    Ahead of next month’s Olivier awards, photographer David Levene reveals the secrets of life backstage in London’s West End, capturing the likes of Steve Coogan, Vanessa Williams, Paapa Essiedu and John Lithgow as they prepare for performance
  • Madame Rosepettle’s ball gown from Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad

    Showstopping sketches: Patricia Zipprodt’s legendary costume designs

    From Roxie and Velma in Chicago to Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, discover the designs of the Broadway great Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99), whose illustrated memoirs have been published
  • Becs Black

    Drag kings strut the stage in They Will be Kings

  • Valentina Fittipaldi, centre, in Encantado by Lia Rodrigues.

    Infinite possibilities: the Rose International Dance prize

  • The Malas brothers on the balcony of their apartment. Dirty net curtains hang behind them

    ‘A dream come true’: Syrian twin actors return home after 14 years of exile in France

  • Joan Plowright

    Joan Plowright – a life in pictures

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You may have missed

  • Steven McRae as Romeo and Sarah Lamb as Juliet at the Royal Opera House in 2015.

    ‘My career flashed before my eyes’: Steven McRae’s devastating onstage injury and proud return as Romeo

  • Natalia Osipova as Giselle with Reece Clarke as Albrecht at the Royal Opera House, London, in 2021.

    ‘We fell in love with the ballet and with her’: why 184-year-old Giselle keeps us swooning

    The role has inspired the world’s best ballerinas and her story is as popular as ever – whether revived, reimagined or deconstructed. Dancers explain the appeal of Giselle
  • Chanel DaSilva.

    Keep dancing: Chanel DaSilva on taking risks, dealing with grief and tackling Trump

    As she brings A Shadow Work to the UK, the New York choreographer talks about therapy, ‘pulling up women with me’ and art-led activism
  • The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Lion King, Churchill in Moscow, The Other Place and more

  • Clipping … (from left) Jonathan Snipes, Daveed Diggs and William Hutson.

    Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’

  • How far would you go for the shot? … a flooding river in the Highlands.

    ‘One slip and I’d be lost in the flood’: shocking report reveals dangers of jobs in the arts

  • The final act … Tom Hiddleston meets his devotees after Much Ado About Nothing.

    ‘Just to see Tom Hiddleston would be enough!’ My eye-popping night with the fans who mob stage doors

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