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This shot of dancers in 1950s Paris is from the archive of a one-time Magnum associate whose photojournalism career was halted by tragedy
This picture of young dancers was taken in the mid-1…
The actor who played Sick Boy on his voluntary work in New York and why he's relieved social media wasn't around in the 90s
Jonny Lee Miller is a 51-year-old British actor who has played Sic…
Park theatre; Lyttleton, LondonIns Choi's disarming Korean corner store comedy makes a timely return to the stage; a show of migrant stories feels more like ritual than chronicle; and a new …
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe up-and-coming Scottish standup's first UK tour finds him in Gervais-ish territory, and his performing flair can't disguise the tired old chauvinism of his…
Coliseum; Woolwich Works, LondonEnglish National Ballet dance Mary Skeaping's 70s reworking of the classic ballet with loving care, while Stravinsky's revolutionary Les Noces holds its own i…
Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas
On 25 January 1954, Dylan Thomas's great radio play Un…
The Other Palace, LondonThere are some excellent performances in an uneven adaptation of the hit film, staged with songs by No Doubt, Ace of Base and Placebo
After its hit with a sour bubble…
Sarah Grochala's Intelligence follows Lovelace's attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist in 1840s London
A play about the reincarnation of the Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace …
The actor and playwright had to 'posh it up' for the role of Lily Pargetter in the radio soap. For her latest drama, she enlisted hundreds of young collaborators to ensure she got their voic…
Omnibus theatre, LondonA feminist artist and teacher is at the centre of Mary Swan's overstuffed play exploring abuse, sexism and politics
We meet a once famous artist just as she is being p…
The play's the thing. But what's so wrong with the RSC's plan to also let people have dinner, or catch the last train home?
"How poor are they that have not patience!". So implores Iago in d…
Project Arts Centre, DublinThere isn't a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone's delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett's monologue about mortality
Making his annual tape …
Soho theatre, LondonAcross 75 haywire minutes, Zach Zucker's variety show features fire-breathing, copious nudity and superb performances from acts including Natalie Palamides
'It's taken us…
I first met Benjamin Zephaniah in Northern Ireland at the Bloody Sunday inquiry hearings. He was poet in residence in Michael Mansfield's chambers. It was an appointment he relished, and he …
The actor, who stars in new film The End We Start From, on her favourite Killing Eve murder, eating Pot Noodles on stage and her Anastacia impersonation
If you could become a TV or film char…
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan's journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company
In the 1970s Kenneth MacMillan snatched ballet from the l…
With After Midnight the 30-year-old has become the only woman hosting a regular US late-night show taking over a coveted CBS slot from James Corden
After years of contraction and stasis in t…
Election to form new ruling council at Actors' Benevolent Fund adjourned amid concerns over online voting
Hopes of an immediate resolution to the bitter and long-running dispute at the top o…
Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning
When asked why he had never played …
Barrino entered American Idol in 2004 as a young single mother who struggled to read, and won over the nation with her powerhouse voice and personality. Now she is starring in her first film…
The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers' royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus
Alice in Wonderland reimagined in Partition-era Ind…
Dorfman theatre, LondonWhile the aesthetics are arresting, Amit Lahav's play lacks the specificity to create any emotional depth
A drama about the epic horrors that migrants have faced could…
Musical actor renowned for devising and performing Side By Side By Sondheim who was a regular on That Was the Week That WasEagle-eyed aficionados of the 1964 war film epic Zulu will recall t…
The actor's suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots
Andrew Scott is capable of ma…
Royal Shakespeare Company's new artistic directors team up with artists from around the world to appeal to wider audience
The Royal Shakespeare Company is attempting to attract new audiences…