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  • Joel Harper-Jackson (Frank Sinatra), centre, in Sinatra: The Musical

    That’s life! Musical about Frank Sinatra’s explosive rise opens in London – in pictures

    A new West End blockbuster puts Ol’ Blue Eyes in the spotlight and features the superstar’s hits including One for My Baby and Come Fly With Me. Take a first look
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  • A person in black holds an orange sign reading 'RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES' above a crowd at a protest

    ‘The Epstein files are about more than men and money’: All the Rage, the ‘guerrilla’ play fuelled by 80 furious women

  • Nathan Lane, the star of Death of a Salesman, accepts the award for best revival of a play at the 2026 Tonys

    Tony awards 2026: Death of a Salesman triumphs, as Lesley Manville and John Lithgow also win

  • Vulnerability and brittleness … Miriam Petche as Cecilia in Atonement in long green satin dress.

    Atonement review – guilt and love battle for an unhappy ending

  • Director Milo Rau sits on a white bed with a laptop, looking toward the camera

    Milo Rau turned tribunals into theatre. Now his own moral judgment is on trial

  • Kosar Ali and Abby McCann kneel on a tiled floor in a lit studio, one pointing at the tiles

    Are You Watching? review – unflinching, fury-filled interrogation of the vile side of the web

  • Nimshi Kongolo as the Sorcerer and Philippa O'Hara as Gunda in ornate robes smile, one holding a staff, the other an open book

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentice review – mindboggling bag of tricks will make you believe in magic

  • Cast of High Society in colorful ball gowns dance on a grand staircase in a palatial theater setting

    High Society review – smooth musical hardly misbehaves but the songs are heavenly

  • Mrs Dalloway, Chester Storyhouse, 2026. Kit Green

    Mrs Dalloway review – Virginia Woolf’s party planner plays all the roles herself

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    Tomorrow Will Be a Palestinian Day review – work that finds a way out of Gaza’s ruins

  • A woman holds a man's face with one hand while they sit on chairs and face each other.

    Once review – slick romance skips showstoppers and defies razzmatazz

  • David Flynn as Beetlejuice with Hannah Nordberg as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice.

    Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton’s super creep reanimated as a shock jock in ghoulish musical

  • Black Comedy at the Orange Tree. Joe Bannister (Brindsley Miller), Jason Barnett (Colonel Melkett) and Simon Manyonda (Harold Gorringe) - credit Sam Taylor

    Black Comedy review – Peter Shaffer’s relentless farce provokes helpless laughter

  • A man dances on roller skates with a parachute on his back

    Roller skates! Pointe shoes! Parachutes! A mythic dance takes flight again at a Brooklyn rink

    Artist Robert Rauschenberg was known for his painting-sculpture hybrids – and a 1963 dance piece called Pelican that was almost lost to time
  • Uncaged+ at the Mount Without, Bristol.

    Uncaged+ review – elegant sketches of Lee Krasner and her life with Jackson Pollock

  • Debbie Allen in silver jacket with her head leaning on one hand and seated at a polished wood table

    Paying in sweat! How Debbie Allen went from stardom in Fame to conquer Hollywood

  • A seven-strong largely nude dance troupe writhe against a blue background

    ‘My dad cannot see me on stage doing this’: will the stigma around boys who dance ever shift?

  • Lana Jones with Kevin Jackson in Sleeping Beauty at the Sydney Opera House in 2015

    ‘Do I put Sleeping Beauty on my CV?!’ Ballet dancers on their next steps, from midwifery to the House of Lords

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A Day Out In History

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    English Heritage
    From Stonehenge to Whitby Abbey: 40 fascinating historical sites in England to visit this summer

  • Garden front of Osborne House, summer residence of Queen Victoria, Isle of Wight

    Romantic retreat
    Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s Osborne

  • Lewis and Richard Edwards-Middleton took their children for a day at Stonehenge.

    Historic Days
    ‘Our son thought: what if I actually move the stone?’: unlocking the mysteries of Stonehenge with a family visit

  • Stonehenge aerial

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    From neolithic ancestors to Arthurian legend: how English Heritage sites tell the nation’s story

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  • Larry Dean

    SNL UK’s Larry Dean: ‘That heckle was so harsh it left my heart pounding!’

  • Nish Kumar with curly hair and a beard wearing a dark blazer over a collarless white shirt

    ‘I should not be allowed to do interviews’: Nish Kumar on courting controversy and clashing with comics

  • A man is shown against a black background with books taped to his head and face.

    ‘I want to bury it under a roundabout!’ Kim Noble on his unusual approach to promoting his graphic novel

  • Sam Campbell holding a small camera

    ‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar

  • Simon Wolstencroft (Cardinal Villot) and Leigh Bowery (Marcinkus) from the original production of Hey! Luciani, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, 1986.

    Pope-ally wired! Why Mark E Smith’s maligned Catholic play is getting a reboot

  • Rufus Norris leans against a concrete wall with his arms crossed, looking into the distance

    ‘It’s a relief … I’m irrelevant!’: Rufus Norris on life after the National Theatre

  • Split image: left shows an orange and black patterned butterfly on grass; right shows Claire Jackson lying in a field examining something closely

    Gaslit, shamed and swindled: the play about Eleanor Glanville, persecuted for her love of butterflies

  • Disquiet, please … The cast of Under the Shadow including (third left) Leila Farzad as Shideh.

    ‘Impossible, exhausting, horrifying’: how a chilling supernatural play explains the terror of life in Iran

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    Tony awards 2026: red carpet looks and the best of the show

    Rose Byrne, Sarah Paulson, Daniel Radcliffe, Adrien Brody and others gather to celebrate Broadway’s biggest awards night
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  • Beetlejuice: The Musical at Prince Edward theatre, London

    ‘It’s showtime!’ Beetlejuice musical is a rave from the grave – in pictures

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  • Natnael Dawit, centre, in Return to the Forest

    The objects that escaped from the museum: Return to the Forest

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