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Stage

  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside Washington DC’s $80m library renovation

    The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works
  • Brian Logan

    Crowd work is the hottest thing in standup comedy – and not everybody is laughing

    Brian Logan
  • Something from almost nothing … Chiara Bersani in L'Animale.

    Chiara Bersani: L’Animale review – pay attention to every tiny detail

  • Ravi Holy

    As a vicar and a standup comedian, take it from me: the pope is right, laughing at God is OK

    Ravi Holy
  • Nish Kumar.

    Surprise election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts

  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

Reviews

  • Laura Smyth at the Hackney Empire

    Laura Smyth: Living My Best Life review – a comic with swagger and the popular touch

    The east Londoner’s show majors in blunt putdowns of anything the ebullient standup finds to be up-itself or overrated
  • Two women, one tied with rope, embracing in front of a mural of the Derry Girls

    Yes festival review – a marvellous appreciation of Molly Bloom

  • Fizz … Gabriel Akuwudike (Roy) and Tiwa Lade (Peace) in My Father’s Fable.

    My Father’s Fable review – a slick delve into identity and complicated family relationships

  • The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

  • Illinoise review – brilliant story of loss, grief and reconciliation

  • Sitting in Limbo review – a rallying cry for the Windrush outrage

  • The Importance of Being Earnest review – Algernon et al get a 21st-century makeover

  • The Taming of the Shrew review – full of foolishness, low on laughs

  • Kiss Me, Kate review – glorious music, falderol frivolity and Adrian Dunbar

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Dance

  • ‘Yasmine has an athlete’s mindset – very sharp, very powerful’ … Yasmine Naghdi and Britt Tajet-Foxell.

    ‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for coaching

    Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés
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Comedy

  • Maria Bamford - comedian - Ruffles credit Robyn Von Swank

    Maria Bamford: ‘I want to give Donald Trump a roundhouse to the bread basket’

  • Tyrone Pynor: ‘Better to ask forgiveness than permission. The internet taught me that.’

    Tyrone Pynor: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Abi Clarke.

    Standup and TikToker Abi Clarke: ‘Why did I get into comedy? Attention!’

  • Katherine Ryan

    Katherine Ryan criticises lack of women hosting late-night chatshows in UK

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Theatre

  • Jonathan Bailey as Richard II.

    Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

  • Benedict Lombe wearing brown turban and gold hoops and cream adidas sweatshirt

    ‘We needed this’: UK audiences thirsty for black British love stories, says playwright

  • Jade Farnill and Elle Ideson perform the play 1988 by Hannah Scorer, in July 2023, during Out Loud, a Hull scratch night produced by Middle Child and Silent Uproar.

    Dramas in a crisis: England’s theatres commit to new plays at perilous time for arts

  • ‘How long have you been gay for?’ ‘About five minutes’ … Severs, sitting, and Pettet at Dennis Severs House in the 1980s.

    ‘The most promiscuous man in town’: the life, loves and legendary sex parties of Dennis Severs

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Pictures & video

  • Maleah Joi Moon and the cast of Hell’s Kitchen perform onstage during the 77th annual Tony awards at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday

    Tony awards 2024: red carpet looks and best of the show

  • Derek Deane, back centre, with English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake In-The-Round by Derek Deane, opening at The Royal Albert Hall on 12th June. Rehearsals taking place at ENB Headquarters at Hopewell Sq, Canning Town. (Opening 12-06-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 05-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake

    An in-the-round production at the Royal Albert Hall in London features more than 100 performers – including 60 dancing swans. Tristram Kenton went into the rehearsals
  • Is that a debit column? … a scene from The Accountants.

    Bookkeeping with a bang: Manchester’s stage spectacular The Accountants

    A world premiere presented by Factory International, The Accountants combines one tale of two auditing firms with another of friends who have connected British Indian and British Chinese heritages
  • Olivier Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall some members of the cast of Guys and Dolls

    Guys, dolls and an A-list cast: behind the curtains at the Olivier awards

  • Joseph Sissens rehearsing Dark With Excessive Bright at Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

    Dark With Excessive Bright: the Royal Ballet’s giant leap into immersive dance

  • Chita Rivera in 1999.

    Chita Rivera – a life in pictures

  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.<br>KPH2P7 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.

    Shirley Anne Field: a life in pictures

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You may have missed

  • Tipping point … Anna Maxwell Martin as an MP and James Corden as an ex-serviceman in rehearsals.

    Racist taunts, rape threats and murder: Joe Penhall on his play about rage against MPs

  • This way to darkest Peru … a set from the show.

    Hide the marmalade! Paddington Bear is back – and he’s gone immersive

    The fluffy accident-prone favourite is donning his red wellies and duffle coat for a magical new ‘experience’ that is half-theatre and half-party. Our writer braces herself for a look behind the scenes
  • Joyful … Gary McNair in Dear Billy.

    Edinburgh festival 2024: the best comedy, theatre and dance already reviewed

  • Dictators as gangsters … a cut-out of Hitler adorns a manuscript of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Brecht’s allegory about the Führer’s path to power.

    Glued to Hitler: what Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold

  • Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman

    Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman call for urgent political support for the arts

  • An urban square in front of a grey stone Victorian institutional building, given extra colour by a mix of leafy trees and mural art on different walls and buildings

    Summerhall’s sale could devastate Edinburgh’s arts scene, say creative leaders

  • Suhani Shah holding her hands up

    ‘I haven’t been to school’: the superstar magician who has performed since she was six

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