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Live streamSeventeen dancers play 100 characters in 1,000 costumes in Jo Strømgren's teeming, beautifully filmed piece, but to what end?
Benoit Swan Pouffer took over the artistic leaders…
Tributes paid to dancer who left Royal Ballet a year ago amid allegations of sexual misconduct
Liam Scarlett, the internationally renowned choreographer, has died at the age of 35, a year af…
The exquisitely talented actor shone at playing complex, intelligent women with a seemingly effortless skill
Helen McCrory dies aged 52
It seems fitting that one of Helen McCrory's final scr…
From David Hockney to Die Walküre, Sindhu Vee to The Suicide Squad " here's what to catch as culture returns
A welcome to 2021's summer of arts
What artists have missed about the live expe…
Playwright whose work, including Zigger Zagger, explored the poverty of choices faced by working-class men
In 1967 the National Youth Theatre in London performed the first new play it had ev…
Actor was also known for her roles in the films The Queen and The Special Relationship
A life in pictures
'How should a woman live her life?' | Helen McCrory
The actor Helen McCrory has di…
Available online A meeting between the writer and the double agent, once colleagues at MI6, is strong on friendship and betrayal " but takes us no closer to the heart of either man
In Februa…
Alice Nutter, Simon Armitage and Maxine Peake will contribute to season offering a 'northern perspective' on how life has changed since the 1970s
A series of new plays about Yorkshire life a…
Available online A volunteer driver, a dog walker and an injured elderly woman fight personal lockdown battles " with playwright Stewart Melton's welcome addition of the determination to pre…
The Young Vic and Royal Court are rethinking their work practices to unpick centuries of ingrained attitudes " and achieve 'the miracle of equality'
The Young Vic and Royal Court theatres ha…
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, standout song and dance numbers, a clever fusion of stage and cinema … that's entertainment!
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Vincente Minnelli'…
With revelry all but absent from public life during Covid, an Amsterdam-based project captures small moments of cathartic abandon in people's living rooms
What follows is a selection of phot…
Playwright who shot to fame in the 1960s and had his biggest success with the Broadway musical NineIt was the fate of Arthur Kopit, who has died aged 83 from progressive dementia, to be labe…
Available onlineNot sure what you would do if you were given absolute power? Unfortunately, nor do the duo Thick'n'Fast in this lightweight fantasy
We may all, under lockdown, have fallen pr…
Available onlinePlaywright Amy Ng adds issues of imperial exploitation and race by moving drama of wealthy woman and servant to Hong Kong in 1948
Miss Julie is standing on top of the kitchen…
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The choreographer's unhurried movements are rendered exquisitely on film by cinematographer Ryan Marie Helfant for New York City Ballet
Things have moved up a notch when it …
National Theatre/Sky ArtsBuckley and O'Connor head a terrific cast in this imaginatively pared down, made-for-TV production
What an accomplished example of pandemic-style drama: a sleek fusi…
Available onlineGilly Campbell's autobiographical play about searching for her absent father may be a monologue, but it tells a story much larger than one person's
How to make sense of an a…
The format should give comic talents a time to shine. So why don't our flagship shows reflect the diversity of comedy in 2021?
Panel shows have been a pillar of British comedy for decades. T…
Star-studded new run of acclaimed two-hander will use four pairs of actors, with Zoë Wanamaker and Chris O'Dowd also signed up
Nick Payne's two-hander play Constellations is to be given a…
Delta Goodrem, Hannah Gadsby and Gladys Berejiklian among stars of stage, screen, music and politics to attend the Australian premiere of the blockbuster musical at Sydney's Lyric Theatre
' …
Available onlineThere's bedroom farce, a lip-sync to Purcell, a Rubik's Cube contest and much more in this brilliantly executed hour of dance by Jo Strømgren
Glimpsing life through other …
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel will also be staged along with two children's plays as industry begins to reopen
Regent's Park Open Air theatre in London has confirmed the lineup fo…
The socially distanced 400-seat venue will stage Alice in Wonderland with contemporary Manchester songs
A new outdoor theatre in Manchester is to present productions of A Midsummer Night's D…
US activist and dramatist Erika Dickerson-Despenza wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize with the play cullud wattah
A "bold and urgent" play about the Flint water crisis, seen through the eyes o…
