Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Post your questions for Tom Felton by Rich Pelley

As the Harry Potter actor brings Draco Malfoy to Broadway and is set to star in a Jimmy Carr-penned spoof period drama alongside Damian Lewis, the eternal bad boy will answer your questions …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM

Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves’s screen history makes their stage reunion all the more emotional | Chris Wiegand by Chris Wiegand

Stephen Poliakoff’s 1991 film Close My Eyes, about incestuous siblings, echoes as the actors return in David Eldridge’s End, playing a couple facing a cancer diagnosis First there was Be…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM

‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons by Jesse Hassenger

In Initiative, a group of young people in the early 2000s finds themselves via the role-playing game, the latest example of its undying popularity It sounds like a big ask, the idea of prese…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter review – Philip Pullman’s fairytale is explosive fun by Lucinda Everett

Polka theatre, LondonThis spellbinding adaptation uses a bulging dramatic toolbox of clever effects and manages to be both epic and intimate Some children’s books – simple stories from f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM
Monday, November 24, 2025

Tatsuya Nakadai obituary by Phil Hoad

One of the greatest actors of Japanese cinema best known for Ran, the 1985 film adaptation of King Lear Though he had the well-appointed bone structure of the 1950s matinee idol, it was Tats…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM

From Wicked: For Good to Stranger Things: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead by Guardian Staff

Ariana Grande sparkles in the concluding part of the Wicked Witch tale, and the first batch of final episodes of the retro sci-fi juggernaut are unleashed Wicked: For GoodOut nowWas the deci…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM

Can’t tech a joke: AI does not understand puns, study finds by Steven Morris

Researchers say results underline large language models’ poor grasp of humour, empathy and cultural nuance Comedians who rely on clever wordplay and writers of witty headlines can rest a l…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM

‘The world is such a nice thing!’: Matt Maltese, the songwriter for pop’s A-list … and Shakespeare by Shaun Curran

After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in Rosalía, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM

Jack and the Beanstalk review – sass, sparkle and fee-fi-fo fun sock it to the baddies by Anya Ryan

Lyric Hammersmith, London A sinister giant computer and a meat-eating headmaster have a sinister plan for shy Jack and his schoolfriends. Meanwhile, the Fairy Godfather has the hots for the …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Gallus in Weegieland review – hilarious show sends Alice down a class rabbit hole by Mark Fisher

Tron theatre, Glasgow There are jokes aplenty in Johnny McKnight’s panto update of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland story, played with delirious daftness by an ebullient cast More than the odd…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM

I Dream of Theresa May review – willing immigrant’s political conversion spurs stiff debate by Arifa Akbar

Tara theatre, London A young, gay Indian man learns steps to Britishness from a phantom vision of the Tory politician, but the result is less sinister a satire than it should be Remember Th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM
Saturday, November 22, 2025

‘The ad libs had us shaking behind the camera’: Corbyn and McKellen cameos raise panto’s profile by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Star turns are boosting ticket sales this season, including Islington show featuring MP’s Wizard of Oz and Olivier winner’s Toto We’re a third of the way through the fabulously camp pr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM

Jurassic review – a roaring clash of logic and lies with duelling dinosaurs by Kate Wyver

Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley’s conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real Logic and reason are torn…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM
Friday, November 21, 2025

All My Sons review – the stars of a dream cast align for Arthur Miller’s towering tragedy by Arifa Akbar

Wyndham’s theatre, LondonBryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu and Hayley Squires achieve theatrical alchemy in Ivo van Hove’s superb production In 2014 Ivo van Hove’s …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM

Back to the Future celebrates 40th with three Marty McFlys performing the musical by Chris Wiegand

The West End show’s former lead actors will travel back in their careers to share the role with its current star for the 1985 film’s anniversary Audiences at the West End musical Back to…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM

Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas review – Lloyd Webber and Rice reunite for festive felonies by Mark Lawson

Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed’s witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo A serial killer working through the alphabet…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM

Inseparable, sensuous and confident, the Kessler twins were pioneers of variety show culture by Angelica Frey

Alice and Ellen Kessler, who died by joint assisted suicide this week, entertained – and occasionally scandalised – Europe with their glitzy and subversive pop music and classically info…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM

On the way to Wicked: Cynthia Erivo’s stage musicals – in pictures by Guardian Staff

Long before her big-screen success as Elphaba, the British actor lit up the stage with performances in Sister Act, The Color Purple and other hit shows Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM

Marking Time review – Nico Muhly inspires a brilliant night of beguiling dance by Lyndsey Winship

Sadler’s Wells, LondonA trio of choreographers respond to Muhly’s vivid scores with works that veer from the meditative to the macabre If you thought we had exhausted shows that were pos…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM

End review – Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen draw couples trilogy to a tender close by Arifa Akbar

Dorfman theatre, London David Eldridge’s two-hander depicts the difficult conversations that follow one partner’s cancer diagnosis David Eldridge’s trilogy has travelled across the ear…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AM
Thursday, November 20, 2025

My cultural awakening: I moved across the world after watching a Billy Connolly documentary by Melanie Brehaut; As Told To Emma Loffhagen

A chance viewing of the comic’s World Tour of Scotland made me swap Australia for the Highlands, although things didn’t quite go to plan … I was 23 and thought I had found my path in l…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM

The Scouse Christmas Carol review – knockabout comedy with a potty mouth by Mark Fisher

Royal Court theatre, LiverpoolPaul Duckworth’s sweary Scrooge has romantic history with Marley’s widow in a pun-heavy festive show Whether it’s Paul Hilton at London’s Old Vic this w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM

Ride the Cyclone review – teens sing for their salvation in cult musical by Anya Ryan

Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonA rollercoaster accident leaves six choristers in limbo, each having to make their case for a second chance on Earth in this eccentric show Well, this is …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM

The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’ by Paul Hilton

Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflection In 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was lo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Rab C Nesbitt actor Gregor Fisher: ‘People say: I didn’t realise you could speak properly!’ by Brian Logan

He’s been in everything from Love Actually to Shakespeare with Al Pacino – but will he always be thought of as the string-vest-wearing boozy Glaswegian? Ahead of a tour as himself, the a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM

The Wizard of Oz review – Dorothy follows the yellow brick road from the Lake District by Mark Fisher

Theatre by the Lake, KeswickAll the major characters are present in Sonia Jalaly’s update, but this is also a journey of self-realisation with brisk songs and cartoonish humour Most peopl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM

Precipice review – horror on the Thames in a baffling musical dystopia by Arifa Akbar

New Diorama, LondonTwo stories, centuries apart, are used to chart climate disaster in this ambitious musical with bitty scenes and cumbersome lyrics This climate disaster musical takes plac…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The World of Tomorrow review – Tom Hanks returns to the stage for time travel charmer by Benjamin Lee

The Shed, New York The actor indulges his love of the past in a breezily enjoyable play about a man falling for a woman from the 1930s, played by a standout Kelli O’Hara Tom Hanks is a sta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30PM

Moving beyond bar lines: composer Nico Muhly on dancers reimagining his music by Nico Muhly

Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it’s fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his m…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM

Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink to make West End debut in Romeo and Juliet by Chris Wiegand

The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in R…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM

John C Reilly wants to win hearts in Mister Romantic, a show that’s truly lovable by Chris Wiegand

From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage – inside a trunk – to serenade the audience In one of Hollywood’s nice…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM

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