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Available onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus's interactive horror is scary " but teaming up with strangers is fun
We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a "terrifying s…
This season, pantomimes are shifting from the theatre to drive-ins and online. Two shows will still make a song and dance about it
Iain Lauchlan has been putting on panto in Coventry for alm…
Available onlineThis lonely hearts revue with songs cut from Follies and other musicals is a carousel of regrets and rapture
Breaking up is hard to do " not just in relationships. When a son…
As Helen Mirren looks back at her career in a Talking Shakespeare event online on 23 November, we celebrate some of the stars' regal performances for the RSC Continue reading...
Available online Staffordshire's Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp
A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists his …
Gillian Anderson, Jessica Lange, Jack Lemmon, James Earl Jones … Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has captured the biggest names as they tread the boards in London Continue reading...
Dwan will play Winnie in a 60th-anniversary revival of the play at Riverside Studios in London
It is, perhaps, the perfect play for lockdown, as the heroine fills the hours between "the bell…
NetflixThe US standup has his say on celebrity culture and Covid, but not the Oscars row, and ends up buffering his own ego in a new special
'It's my fucking household, I'm not holding back!…
Available onlinePlaying to a live online audience, mind-reader Scott Silven appears to know our thoughts before we do
The joy of a magic trick is in the moment. The magician defies the rule…
Unable to fully stage their celebration of the classic 6os album, Clod Ensemble are inviting audiences to a listening party for London jazz festival
They had such great plans: a live band, 2…
Available online This collection of dancers' homemade films " in apartments, backyards or the great outdoors " connect in winningly lo-fi way
As some dance companies get slicker in their dig…
Available onlineThe Little Angel theatre's inspirational show uses dance, rap and puppets to tell real and fictional tales about trailblazing female astronauts
Before she became the first wo…
Available onlineThe Queen's theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county's much maligned image with four monologues that fizz
When Mike Leigh situated his social sati…
She was living on beans. Now she's in LA writing Ms Marvel, the eagerly awaited TV series starring MCU's first Muslim superhero. The writer talks about joyriding premiers and how to silence …
You are the solo performer and audience in this quietly transformative piece whose script is delivered to your door
One of the things they teach playwrights is character development. If your…
Available onlineFrancesca Hayward, Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez are among the many stars in this exquisite mixed bill of classics and more recent work
Planned for a live audience t…
All-round entertainer whose readiness to take a joke against himself was key to his successOne day in 1964, over a cup of coffee, Des O'Connor told the comedian Eric Morecambe that he hoped …
Online via Gaiety, AyrThickSkin's intense, flickering two-hander about automatons in a totalitarian regime makes gripping, immersive VR viewing
As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickSki…
Jermyn Street theatre onlineThe aggrieved women of the poet's Heroides speak loud and clear in 15 bristling new monologues by top playwrights, scorchingly delivered by 15 leading actors
Here…
As parts of the UK enter another month " at least " of being stuck indoors, our critics pick out top music, games, books, TV, dance and art fixes to lift your spirits
Part two: film, comedy,…
Late-night hosts investigate Trump's corrosive intransigence to reality, and his latest grift: using donations to pay his debts
Donald Trump still refused to acknowledge his electoral defeat…
England's theatres are closed but ballet is back at the Royal Opera House for online audiences with a new streamed performance, Live " Within the Golden Hour. Tristram Kenton was granted acc…
Music's primal power for those living with dementia has inspired thousands of YouTube views for a clip of a former dancer
We see a frail and elderly woman in a chair, her eyes downcast. She …
Tristram Kenton's archive reveals more performers heading for the big time, including Rachel Weisz, Idris Elba, Daniel Kaluuya, Felicity Jones and more Continue reading...
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears
'What's your favourite scary movie?" ask…
