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‘It’s been a thrill!’ My first time at the mind-boggling Melbourne comedy festival
At the world’s biggest barrel of laughs, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Rose Matafeo rub shoulders with homegrown stars-in-the-making. Our writer has the time of his life What’s the biggest...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/19/melbourne-international-comedy-festival
Shechter II: From England With Love review – a crash course in how to be English
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Hofesh Shechter’s young company are an international bunch but their slo-mo curves and sudden shocks deliver some startling home truths There’s an irony, of cou...
Love’s Labour’s Lost review – tech bros get swiped left in pitch perfect japes
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON Emily Burns’ modern-day romcom, set on a Pacific island retreat, ramps up the silliness and makes accessible the text’s cloud-parting power and ...
The Ballad of Hattie and James review – a musical friendship comes back into tune
KILN THEATRE, LONDON Sophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life Music, says Hattie, is...
The Cord review – daggers of judgment as a birth rocks a family
BUSH THEATRE, LONDON Therapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like harp...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/19/the-cord-review-bush-theatre-london
Liberation Squares review – polemic comedy about state surveillance
NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE Three unsuspecting teenagers find themselves under close observation in this satirical swipe at the government’s Prevent strategy The three GCSE students in Sonali Bhatta...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/19/liberation-squares-review-nottingham-playhouse-prevent
The Comeuppance review – eloquence, tension and wit in a dysfunctional reunion drama
ALMEIDA, LONDON Five American friends gather to catch up in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play. It’s a portrait of midlife malaise, but also a subtle meditation on post-Covid life A group of ...
James V: Katherine review – queer love in the time of the Scottish kings
THE STUDIO, EDINBURGH, AND TOURING The fifth of Rona Munro’s James plays fails to develop an interesting premise about a hidden romance A dark stage is lapped by flickering candles. Here, fou...
The Pull of the Stars review – Emma Donoghue adapts her Spanish flu novel for an all-female cast
GATE THEATRE, DUBLIN Set in a 1918 maternity ward, the play offers moments of tenderness amid its commentary on political and social upheaval A pandemic exposes deep social injustices in Emma D...
The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review
NOËL COWARD; @SOHOPLACE; DORFMAN; LONDON Ian McKellen reigns supreme in Robert Icke’s Henry IV mashup; Tyrell Williams’s coming-of-age football drama is bang on target; and the Brontë siste...
Elixir festival review – older dancers pushing against the void
SADLER’S WELLS, LONDON The revered Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny kick off this year’s celebration of creative ageing, in a triple bill shared by Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke Malou Air...
An Actor Convalescing in Devon review – long, lacklustre ride through life, loss and actorly love
HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, LONDON Richard’s Nelson’s elegiac monologue feels like Paul Jesson is live-reading a novel and results in a sense of stagnation Richard’s Nelson’s monologue, written ...
Anarchy Dance Theatre: Second Body review – joltingly good cosmic shapeshifting
The Coronet theatre, London Tension between the organic, human-made and the digital permeates Chieh-hua Hsieh’s show as performer Ting-Ting Chao becomes an incredible vibrating energy force W...
Player Kings review – Ian McKellen’s richly complex Falstaff is magnetic
Noel Coward theatre, London Mutating from head criminal in a gothic thriller to slippery music hall entertainer, showman McKellen has centripetal force in Robert Icke’s slick, modern dress prod...
Elixir festival review – the dance of life through older eyes
Sadler’s Wells, London Works from veteran dancers Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo, Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke challenge perceptions of age, with performances full of spirit and maturity Wa...
Ian McKellen’s Player Kings to tour England
The play, adapted by Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, stars McKellen as John Falstaff for the first time in his career and will take in Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle after its West En...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/21/ian-mckellen-player-kings-to-tour-england
‘Am I playing Dolly Parton? I’m flattered!’ Imelda Staunton launches Hello, Dolly! in London
Staunton reunites with Follies director Dominic Cooke to bring ‘old musical to a new audience’ at the Palladium in July After a four-year delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Imelda Staun...
Lorna Rose Treen: ‘Someone shouted along to one of my jokes, like I was a band’
The character comic on gigging with chickens, harnessing the power of embarrassment and her spoof Radio 4 current affairs show What first drew you to character comedy? As a kid I loved televisi...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/18/comedy-lorna-rose-treen-jokes-radio-4
Arlene Phillips at 80: on Strictly, scandal, survival – and still being a sizzling hot choreographer
She outraged Mary Whitehouse, worked with Tina Turner, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and is up for an Olivier for choreographing a smash hit production of Guys & Dolls. Will she ever slow down?...
‘Our destroyed theatre’s heart still beats’: Mariupol’s actors return to the stage, two years on
Players who survived a Russian strike on a theatre where over 1,000 people sheltered are taking to the stage to tell their stories When the bombs hit the Mariupol Drama theatre , Vira Lebedynsk...
‘Maybe everybody feels socially awkward’: the standups turning being autistic into a comedy superpower
From Fern Brady to Hannah Gadsby, a host of comedians have discovered that they are autistic. What is it about standup that lends itself so well to neurodivergent people? In 2020, Pierre Novell...
Janey review – behind-the-scenes doc shows standup at her hilarious and heartfelt best
On tour with her daughter after her cancer diagnosis the Scottish national treasure opens up about her life and finds big laughs in the face of death Here’s a documentary following the Glaswe...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/13/janey-review-behind-the-scenes-doc-standup-godley
‘It was hard – but there was lots of laughter’: women’s stories of the miners’ strike told on tour
Forty years on from the battle to save Britain’s pits, a revival of Boff Whalley’s drama We’re Not Going Back honours women’s contribution Ten years ago, Boff Whalley created a play for...
Jerrod Carmichael is a superb standup – if only he’d stop checking his phone on stage
The US comedian, who won an Emmy for the remarkable 2022 special Rothaniel, makes a bemusing visit to London When Sarah Silverman took to the stage at Hammersmith Apollo one night in 2008, she...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/08/jerrod-carmichael-standup-comedian-rothaniel-london
Dark With Excessive Bright: the Royal Ballet’s giant leap into immersive dance – in pictures
The Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre will be transformed for Canadian choreographer Robert Binet’s new show, where the audience can roam freely. Take a first look Continue reading...
Chita Rivera – a life in pictures
The Broadway star has died aged 91 . Revisit her glittering career, including West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2024/jan/30/chita-rivera-a-life-in-pictures
Shirley Anne Field: a life in pictures
The actor best known for her role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, has died aged 87. Here we look back at her life and career Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/dec/11/shirley-anne-field-a-life-in-pictures
The life and rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah – video obituary
The British poet has died at the age of 65. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour eight weeks ago, his Instagram page stated. The post read: ‘Through an amazing career including a huge body of p...
The West End turns upside down … Stranger Things: The First Shadow – in pictures
Netflix’s phenomenally successful sci-fi horror saga continues with a new stage production, now running at the Phoenix theatre in London. Here’s an exclusive first look Continue reading...
Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan – in pictures
The acclaimed company returns to Sadler’s Wells in London with a production inspired by the optical phenomenon known as a ‘lunar halo’ Photography by Tristram Kenton Continue reading...
National Theatre at 60, from Hamlet to Dear England – in posters
As the National Theatre celebrates its 60th anniversary, revisit some of its most iconic posters including War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Nine Night Continue rea...