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  • Julie Hesmondhalgh, with short blonde hair, wears a red dress, sitting in a wooden pew

    Celebrity Traitors’ Julie Hesmondhalgh: theatres should be 100% faithful to ‘local stories’

    As she leaves the Traitors castle to star in The Pelicot Trial and receive a lifetime achievement award, the actor has highlighted a ‘loss of regional identity’ caused by funding pressures on UK theatres
  • Three men and a woman standing front of the Tyne Bridge.

    ‘Corruption has only got worse’: can a new version of Our Friends in the North still shock audiences 30 years on?

    Peter Flannery’s 90s TV drama classic is getting a theatre reworking in Newcastle. The director and cast talk about doing justice to its themes of scandal and decay – and emulating its star-making actors
  • Director Quentin Tarantino and actor Sacha Baron Cohen

    Sacha Baron Cohen to star in Quentin Tarantino’s West End play The Popinjay Cavalier

    The production marks the Hollywood director’s first play written for the stage, which he will also direct
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Gayle Rankin (House of the Dragon, The Incomer, GLOW) takes on the role of Miss Jean Brodie, and is joined by Maureen Beattie, Liberty Black, Dyfan Dwyfor, Brian Ferguson, Sophie Fortune, Tallulah Greive, Shreya Khaund Marshall and Bobby Rainsbury. Produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, presented in partnership with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and in association with Pitlochry Festival Theatre. The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland UK 08/10/2026 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie review – Muriel Spark’s extraordinary heroine made more extraordinary still

  • Haunting of Hill House, Richmond Theatre, 2026. Robin Morrissey (Luke), Sophie Lenglinger (Theo) and Clancy Ryan (Eleanor) - credit Pamela Raith

    The Haunting of Hill House review – a slick and spooky fright night

  • Jaha Koo

    ‘Jelliness is my life motto’: jackpot theatre prize winner Jaha Koo on kimchi, K-pop and his robotic eel

  • Karene Peter, Jodie Campbell and Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ perform joyfully on stage beside a flowering tree

    Blood of My Blood review – gripping ghost story is a reckoning with slavery

  • David Threlfall as King Lear, bearded with long grey hair, looks upward with anguish

    King Lear review – David Threlfall makes a moving Lear, but why is he playing the Fool too?

  • Jeremy Strong in The Social Reckoning

    Going out, staying in
    From The Social Reckoning to Harriet Kemsley: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  • Anthony Hopkins and Jim Broadbent carry children on their shoulders through a park, in the 1985 film The Good Father, adapted from Peter Prince's novel

    Peter Prince obituary

  • A man and a woman sit at a table with a large animal skull on it. Numerous other skulls are held behind them as if floating in the air

    End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland review – Murakami’s marvel brilliantly brought to life

  • Actors perform by candlelight.

    Candlelit theatre in Havana – in pictures

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  • Gaten Matarazzo (Mark), centre, in Rent @ Tom Stoppard Theatre. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson. Directed by Luke Sheppard. (Opening 08-10-26) ©Tristram Kenton 09-2026

    Rent review – Jonathan Larson’s New York bohos move into the West End and unpack their passions

  • Beverley Knight as Emmeline Pankhurst, centre, in Sylvia musical

    Honouring Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst on stage and in political action

  • An anguished man is on his knees cradling the supine body of a woman

    Franz & Marie review – Woyzeck folk musical finds heart amid the horror

  • Danielle James, Iestyn Arwel, Molly Lynch, Nichola MacEvilly and Riain Cash

    Lourdes gets a Vegas glow-up at Dublin theatre festival, where canvases are slashed

  • Brian Blessed, as Sir Tunbelly Clumsey, snarls fiercely while aiming an old-fashioned pistol

    ‘He punched a polar bear on the nose!’ Ninety glorious years of Brian Blessed – by Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester and more

  • Mark Barrett and Blythe Duff in Contact

    Contact review – Jonny Donahoe delivers a heated reunion at a bonfire of family photos

    Blythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this bitter two-hander
  • Two actors, Jonathan Groff and Elliot Barnes-Worrell, stand close to each other sharing an intense look

    As You Like It review – there are no mere players in the RSC’s ravishing all-male escapade

    With a WWE-style wrestling match, playful eroticism and a fine cast including Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff, this is an exquisite production
  • A woman lit with a green light light holds her huge lizard-like tongue

    The Hungry Ghost review – this sexy, juicily spooky romcom is a scream

    Mei Leng Yew’s smart play veers between humour and horror as a young woman ignores her mum’s warning about big life changes during a ghost festival
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