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  • Power couple … Oisín Thompson and Yolanda Ovide in The Gangs of New York.

    The Gangs of New York review – explosive romance on America’s mean streets

    In this open-air production, audiences become citizens of an unruly city in which violence and corruption abound
  • Rosemarie Akwafo (Nona) in Rough Magic at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

    Play time
    Rough Magic review – zany riff on Macbeth bewitches young audience

  • As You Like It

    As You Like It review – the RSC’s garden party is altogether too ordinary

  • Digressions aplenty … Alice in Wonderland.

    Alice in Wonderland review – down the rabbit hole and into the woods

  • Marjolein Robertson, Joe Kent-Walters and Kate Cheka.

    Edinburgh festival 2024: six of the funniest comedians at the fringe

  • Writer Rona Munro at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester

    Emerging playwright schemes should include over 40s, say UK theatre figures

  • The cast of Shrek the Musical

    Shrek the Musical review – sludgy show leaves you green about the gills

    Played at the volume of a pantomime, this makeover of the fairytale favourite is flatly unadventurous
  • Oliver! at Chichester Festival theatre.

    Oliver! review – divine yet danger-averse revival could be renamed Fagin!

  • (l-r) Mary Malone, Jasmine Elcock and Miracle Chance in FANGIRLS (c) Manuel Harlan

    Fangirls review – sugar rush musical turns a teen crush criminal

  • The Map of Argentina review – magnetic, messy affairs of the heart

  • Red Speedo review – moral dilemmas and personal fears surface in doping drama

  • Bullyache’s Who Hurt You? review – a messy self-assured world of glitter and sweat

  • Chariots of Fire review – hugely enjoyable production that’s not just running on the spot

  • Galway international arts festival: Reunion; Endgame – review

  • Somnium review – Philomela’s violent tale told with ethereal artistry

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  • Waves by Cloud Gate

    Let’s get physical: the science of dance at the Venice Biennale

    The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection
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  • A waiter delighting customers over breakfast.

    Eggs, bacon, banter: the Scottish hotel trying to make breakfast the funniest meal of the day

  • Hannah Platt posing with bouffant red hair and a stylised nosebleed that meets her red lipstick

    Hannah Platt: ‘I’m a crotchety old man trapped in the body of a little girl’

  • Fatma Aydemir

    When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour

    Fatma Aydemir
  • Megan Prescott Really Good Exposure

    From OnlyFans to medical trials - the extreme measures artists take to fund Edinburgh festival shows

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  • ‘She could have been as famous as Nye Bevan’ … Ellen Wilkinson.

    ‘A moment to create the country they dreamed of’: Labour’s 1945 landslide becomes a play for today

  • Peter Charlesworth show business agent

    Peter Charlesworth obituary

  • Avita Jay reads to a patient in St Thomas's Hospital, London.

    ‘As good as playing to a packed theatre’: the actors who perform for stroke survivors

  • Arifa Akbar

    Must the show go on? Theatre’s plucky motto may be out of step with our times

    Arifa Akbar
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Pictures & video

  • James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience

  • Rehearsals for The School for Scandal at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC

    Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
  • Groundbreaking … a scene from Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney.

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic

    Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité’s play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London
  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome

  • Maleah Joi Moon and the cast of Hell’s Kitchen perform onstage during the 77th annual Tony awards at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday

    Tony awards 2024: red carpet looks and best of the show

  • Derek Deane, back centre, with English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake In-The-Round by Derek Deane, opening at The Royal Albert Hall on 12th June. Rehearsals taking place at ENB Headquarters at Hopewell Sq, Canning Town.
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    Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake

  • Is that a debit column? … a scene from The Accountants.

    Bookkeeping with a bang: Manchester’s stage spectacular The Accountants

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