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Friday, January 9, 2026

Strike a pose: vogue balls go mainstream in New Zealand by Eva Corlett

Led by Māori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs to Wellington’s national museum In a large gallery at New Zealand’s nationa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM

Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy by Peter Bradshaw

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama ‘The joys of pare…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM

Jade Franks on how cleaning toilets at Cambridge inspired her hit show: ‘I’m not watering down the fury – just sneaking it through the back door by Kate Wyver

The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn’t. Now she’s determined to use success…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Bug review – Carrie Coon brings intensity to paranoid Tracy Letts revival by Jesse Hassenger

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York The White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks You can…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30PM

Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup by Cath Clarke

Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Waters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot There is a moment at the start of this do…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM

A provocative new play challenges society’s ‘discomfort that disabled people have sex lives’ by Caroline Butterwick

(We indulge in) a bit of roll play is an explicit drama about a young disabled man’s sexual expression – and puts uncomfortable questions to its audience “I’m asked quite a lot why e…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Art could save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier and more hopeful by Daisy Fancourt

Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having fun For some reason, we have collectively agreed that new year is the time to r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM

Dublin Gothic review – epic ‘losers’ history’ of the city traces 100 years of family life by Helen Meany

Abbey theatre, DublinBarbara Bergin’s tale follows four families through strikes in the slums, the Easter Rising, the early years of independence and the HIV-Aids crisis of the 1980s In Ba…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM

‘I’d never told the same joke twice!’: the explosive rise of Ayoade Bamgboye, Edinburgh’s best new comedian by Brian Logan

The Londoner from Lagos wowed the fringe with a show about language, family and cross-cultural identity. She talks about dread, dreams and her bid for ‘controlled chaos’ Before her first…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM

Dolly, Dreamgirls and Daniel Radcliffe: the biggest Broadway shows of 2026 by Adrian Horton

After a record-breaking season, big stars and big revivals hope to lure in New York audiences over the next 12 months The year 2025 found Broadway at a major inflection point – New York th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM

Actor and writer Paterson Joseph: ‘Tilda Swinton asked me a question that changed everything that came next’ by Harriet Gibsone

Joseph on sussing the school system at the age of four, an awkward audition for the National Youth Theatre, and why he loves his ‘horrible’ Peep Show character Born in Willesden, north-w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AM

UK arts groups offer therapeutic support to performers as they challenge myth of tortured artist by Amelia Hill

‘You don’t have to be tortured to make great art,’ says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AM

Frank Dunlop was a theatrical visionary and the Young Vic is his enduring legacy | Michael Billington by Michael Billington

The director, who has died aged 98, permanently changed the landscape of British theatre by creating the Young Vic – and it reflected his own energetic and ever innovative nature Frank Du…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Woman in Mind review – play stands the test of time for its originality by Arifa Akbar

Duke of York’s Theatre, London Sheridan Smith’s disconsolate housewife seeks refuge in a fantasy world, in critique of the emptiness of married life Susan is not the first woman battling…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PM

Frank Dunlop obituary by Michael Coveney

Founder of the Young Vic who later became the director of the Edinburgh international festival A pocket dynamo of a man who seemed to bounce as he walked along, Frank Dunlop will be remember…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PM

‘Melancholy magic’: how Judi Dench and a host of stars came under the spell of the greatest comedy in history by Michael Billington

The Twelfth Night Reunion gathers some of the grandest names in British theatre, including Simon Callow and Stephen Fry, to explain why Shakespeare’s play continues to bewitch audiences Ma…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM

‘I love money!’: Katherine Ryan on success, feminism, bad reviews and ballsiness by Zoe Williams

When the Canadian comedian first arrived in the UK, she says she was instantly poor. But her career soon began to take off. She discusses provocation, perfectionism and telling people her se…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AM
Monday, January 5, 2026

‘Pinnacle of westerns’: the Oscar-winning writer of Forrest Gump on staging High Noon – with songs by Springsteen by Ryan Gilbey

He’s written screen smashes like Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon. As Eric Roth plunges into theatre, he talks about classic westerns, being sacked by Robert Redford – and why writing…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM

Pippin review – Stephen Schwartz’s wondrous songs still cast a spell by Chris Wiegand

Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London A revival of the Wicked composer’s 70s medieval-quest musical brings magic and joy but malevolence is missing Once upon a time, long before Wicked became …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM

Cynthia Erivo is Dracula, Gentleman Jack does ballet and Phil Wang’s mega-tour: theatre, dance and comedy in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Lyndsey Winship and Brian Logan

Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Simon Stone on luring film stars on stage, family tragedy and staging Chekhov in Korean: ‘It’s one of the proudest moments in my career’ by Steve Dow

Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard Get our …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM

The Rivals review – heady, flapper-ish revival is stylishly silly Christmas fun by Arifa Akbar

Orange Tree theatre, London Comedy’s upper-class antics are transposed to 1920s Bath and bring a crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit and silliness, though it slackens occasionally Richar…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM
Friday, January 2, 2026

Elizabeth Kay obituary by Frances Kay

My mother, Elizabeth Kay, who has died aged 97, made her West End debut playing Ismene in Laurence Olivier’s celebrated production of Oedipus Rex at the Old Vic in 1945-46. Born in Worthin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM

‘As evil as Iago’: the return of Terence Rattigan’s shocking Man and Boy by Michael Billington

Rattigan hoped his 1954 tale about a swindler who exploits his son’s sexual allure would prove him a serious dramatist. Its scandalous story reveals much about the playwright and resonates…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM
Thursday, January 1, 2026

‘Dancing on bones’: Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale by Shaun Walker, Pjotr Sauer and Artem Mazhulin

Restoration presented as rebuilding, but many see it as part of a broader Russification effort in occupied Ukrainian city The Mariupol Drama Theatre, destroyed in a Russian airstrike in 2022…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM

Forget Keanu: Ulster Scots translation of Beckett classic takes on spate of celebrity Godots by Caroline Davies

Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of new festival celebrating Irish playwright Beneath a stark steel tree in a bleak upland bog, a literary masterp…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM

‘Shakespeare? I’d have a go!’ Paul Chuckle on his 50-year comedy career and his new gangster film by As Told To Rich Pelley

As he dons sunglasses to play a tough guy on screen, the actor, AKA Paul Elliott, answers your questions about moustaches, Gogglebox, Bond, Judge Jules, Liam Gallagher and missing his brothe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM

Celebrity castings can help theatres in hard times, says new head of Bristol Old Vic by Jamie Grierson

Big names can attract audiences as venues struggle with fallout from pandemic, austerity and high costs, Rebecca Dawson says Casting big stars in stage productions is sometimes needed becaus…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM

The satirical genius of John Antrobus and Spike Milligan | Letters by Guardian Staff

Philip Allen recalls a funny moment at the end of a performance of Antrobus and Milligan’s The Bed-Sitting Room in 1963 I remember, as a student in 1963, going to see the play The Bed-Sitt…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM

The best theatre to stream this month: the rollicking return of One Man, Two Guvnors by Chris Wiegand

James Corden got his ticket to Hollywood after this first-rate farce. Plus: the biggest stars in musicals gather for a night of big hits and breakdancers interpret Bach’s baroque music Ric…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM
Monday, December 29, 2025

Andy Zaltzman: ‘Aristophanes is total comedy: political satire, slapstick and dick jokes’ by Interview By Liam Pape

The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets How did you get into comedy?Slightly by accident. I had tried …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM
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