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  • A dishevelled man in a bloodstained shirt and tie sits perched on stage, grimacing, in De Profundis

    De Profundis review – Oscar Wilde brought alive with righteous rage

    Anguished monologue based on letter to jailed playwright’s ex-lover is gripping in its illumination of a tortured artist
  • Rowan Atkinson kneels beside a wicker basket of costumes labelled "Rowan Live"

    Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show

  • A woman and a masked man in a gondola on water surrounded by candles

    Forty years of Phantom of the Opera - the show that wouldn’t die: ‘People come back to hear the impossible’

  • Max Bennett as Creon stands on stage during Antigone, with seated figures behind him

    Antigone Exits review – emotions run high in experimental reworking of Greek tragedy

  • Beverley Knight as Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia

    Suffragette cities: blazing Sylvia Pankhurst musical hits the road

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  • Kennedy Muntanga as prime minister with dancers Cathy Grealish, Dylan Springer and Tommi Sutton.

    Deepfake review – ingenious interview with a PM who dances around every issue

  • Dancers from Pastoral by Pam Tanowitz Dance crouch in pastel bodysuits before a blue backdrop

    Pam Tanowitz: Pastoral review – Beethoven explodes into bright bursts of gorgeous dance

  • Actor Ian Hallard, in clergy robes, stands at a lectern with stained glass projected behind him

    Murder Before Evensong review – the Rev Richard Coles’s village mystery squeezes into cosy theatre

  • Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski, in costume, sit drinking tea on a sofa

    Hay Fever review – Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski host Coward’s country house shenanigans

  • Gillian Anderson as Martha sits holding a cigarette, wearing a fuzzy cardigan on stage. in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? @sohoplace, London.

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Gillian Anderson fights tooth and nail in marital meltdown

  • Fraser Sivewright, Gavin Jon Wright, Kevin Lennon and Lewie Watson perform in period costume on stage

    Whaur’s Yer Wullie Shakespeare Noo? review – when John Home outdid Stratford’s Bard

  • Phil Corbitt holds a giant "COLIN" sign, laughing, as a woman watches

    All at Sea review – faked death of ‘canoe man’ inspires waves of intrigue

  • Pip Carter and Rory Kinnear, in vintage clothing, sit laughing together on a chair on stage in a performance of James Graham's play The Standard of Living

    The Standard of Living review – Rory Kinnear has bags of charm as Bloomsbury economist Keynes

  • Dancers from Faye Driscoll's Weathering sprawl and climb over a mattress, one lifted upside down

    Orgy, apocalypse and exorcism: Faye Driscoll’s revolving bed puts everyone in a spin

    The US performance-maker’s Weathering, which evokes people clinging to a life raft, has left a trail of overwhelmed audiences. As it arrives in the UK, she reflects on creating a sensory environment to involve us all
  • Choreographers Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple sit together on the floor

    ‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes

  • Ballerina Natalia Osipova rests her chin on her hand against a yellow background

    Can a ballerina do a stomp? Natalia Osipova on making her fearsome, foul-mouthed acting debut

  • Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds, wearing a mesh outfit, dancing, in a black and white photograph

    She was the Royal Ballet’s first ‘young choreographer’ – Charlotte Edmonds’ next 10 years show how dance is changing

  • Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan sit cross-legged on a floor, facing each other in conversation

    In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan

  • She stands on stage in a sleeveless, white pinstripe top, holding a microphone in one hand and gesticulating with the other

    A new start after 60: Menopausal and out of work, I sat crying in my car. Now, I’m a standup comedian

  • Sindhu Vee smiles broadly, chin resting on her hand, wearing a mustard dress

    Sindhu Vee: ‘Makeup, music to feel reckless, two pieces of milk chocolate – and then I go on’

  • He sits on the floor holding up a scroll of rust-coloured paper that's being using as a backdrop, as though it has fallen on him

    ‘I remember going: oh hello!’ Dara Ó Briain on comedy, coolness, cruelty and finding his birth parents

  • Comedian Ahir Shah, with glasses and a beard, holds a colourful embroidered umbrella outdoors

    ‘I’m not Mr Saturday Night’: the highbrow brilliance of Ahir Shah, past winner of comedy’s top prize

  • Novelist Susanna Clarke, in a tweed coat, stands outdoors near a stone wall in the Peak District

    RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

  • Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked, raising a fist and broomstick amid dramatic blue smoke

    ‘They’ll never bring us dowwwwwwwn!’ Wicked’s stars pick their favourite songs from the smash hit

  • Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden stand face to face, close together, in David Ireland’s The Fifth Step

    The best theatre to stream this month: Jack Lowden locks horns with Martin Freeman in The Fifth Step

  • Jammz, Debris Stevenson and Cassie Clare in Poet In Da Corner by Debris Stevenson @ Royal Court. Directed by Ola Ince. (Opening 25-09-18) ©Tristram Kenton 09-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The play that changed my life: ‘Grime was ostracised but the Royal Court saw it as an art form – and made me a better MC’

Pictures & video

  • Gaten Matarazzo (Mark) in Rent

    A new season of love: hit musical Rent returns to the West End with Gaten Matarazzo

    Jonathan Larson’s much-loved show about New York artists has been revived for its 30th anniversary with a cast including the Stranger Things star
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  • The proscenium arch of the Theatre Royal in Hobart viewed from the dress circle.

    Take a seat: the ritzy glamour of Australia’s historic theatres and cinemas

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  • Many Angels by Alvin Ailey

    Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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  • Nair Schinca and Nicolas Schell dance after winning the stage category at the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    Only connect: World Tango Championships finals

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  • A dancer balances upside down while a fellow performer supports his raised leg

    Let's go outside! Greenwich + Docklands international festival

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