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  • Luke Brady as the title hero in Hercules.

    Hercules review – Disney musical is fun, finely sung but not quite fit for the gods

  • Kieran Hodgson at Soho theatre, London.

    Kieran Hodgson: Voice of America review – meek Brit meets his star-spangled States

  • ‘They have to graze’ … an elephant in Madrid.the elephant 
in Madrid.

    ‘Get ready to sweat!’ The animal mega-marathon stampeding from the Congo to the Arctic

  • ‘Coleen is a princess, Wayne is a warrior’ … the poster for the show.

    The Legend of Rooney’s Ring: Wayne and Coleen get their very own summer panto

  • Cliff Cardinal's As You Like It: A Radical Retelling

    Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer

  • ‘Normal people doing extraordinary things’ … the meeting.

    Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

  • Company of The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at Kiln Theatre (c) Mark Senior (2)

    The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs review – exuberant musical drama wriggles its way into your heart

  • 54.60 Africa

    54.60 Africa review – a freewheeling, weeklong tour around the continent

  • 4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court theatre.

    4.48 Psychosis review – bared anguish and delicate detail in Sarah Kane’s final play

  • ‘Every number is a hit’ … Lovestuck.

    Lovestuck review – superb dating disaster musical inspired by unfortunate toilet accident

  • The Cave

    The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent

  • Difficult harmony … (l-r) Lucy Karczewski, Nia Towle and Jack Riddiford in Stereophonic at the Duke of York’s theatre, London.

    Stereophonic review – 70s band saga is an extraordinary, electrifying odyssey

  • Natalie Dormer and Jacob Isaacs in Anna Karenina at Chichester Festival theatre.

    Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance

  • Scott Karim in Storehouse.

    Storehouse review – an exasperating wander through the internet’s ‘arkive’

  • Edward Watson in rehearsal for A Single Man, which will premiere at Manchester international festival.

    ‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet

    Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation
  • A female ballet dancer is lifted by a male performer during a rehearsal of a ballet.

    ‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

  • ‘Messiness, sexuality and desire’ … Mark Our Ashes by Vidya Patel.

    ‘Whipped till the blood comes’: Jersey’s shocking witch-hunting past is brought spectacularly back to life

  • Quadrophenia in rehearsal at Sadler’s Wells East, London.

    Pete Townshend remakes Quadrophenia for a new generation: ‘The world is a dangerous place at the moment’

  • Dance phenomenon … a scene from the film French Cancan by Jean Renoir.

    ‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high-kicking cancan

  1. ‘Cut me and I’d bleed gravy’ … Rosie Jones.

    ‘I face the haters full-on!’ Rosie Jones on ramping up the laughs in her new drug-dealing sitcom

  2. Unflappable … a promotional shot for Garry Starr: Classic Penguins.

    ‘Stupider than everyone else’: one comic’s semi-naked bid to perform dozens of Penguin novels

  3. FOR ONLINE: Flashback: Kathy Lette Now. Styling Andie Redman. HMU Carol Sullivan at Arlington Artists

    Kathy Lette looks back: ‘Older women are invisible, so I make sure to do something outrageous every day’

  4. John C Reilly as Mister Romantic.

    ‘Chaps frame the buttocks in a beautiful way’: John C Reilly on Magnolia, moving into music – and his nice bum

  • Adeel Akhtar.

    Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to start noticing Asian actors … we’ve been here a really long time’

  • Billy Porter with his hands raised.

    ‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth

  • Mustapha Matura

    Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of ‘writer’s paradise’

  • Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes.

    ‘Making sure everyone can see the plays’: can Hugh Jackman make theater less elitist?

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  • Susannah Fielding (Titania/Hippolyta) in A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Re-met by moonlight: A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Bridge

    Nicholas Hytner’s immersive 2019 production is back with a brand new cast from Titania to Bottom. We joined rehearsals and took a first look on stage
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