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Margaretta D’Arcy obituary

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RSC to cut workforce by 11% as it faces ‘perilous situation’

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Josh Jones review – Mancunian comedian meanders in vanishingly insubstantial set

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Remembering Toni Lamond: the Australian stage legend who made me fall in love with theatre

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Fallen Angels review – fizz-fuelled lust drives a Coward comedy that was almost banned

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Ebony Scrooge review – effervescent hip-hop Dickens with a Caribbean twist

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Ballet star Matthew Ball on gruelling roles and getting ogled on Instagram: ‘I don’t feel precious about my body’

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Joe Wright on Tom Stoppard: ‘He loved sweets, smoking, words and women – in the reverse order’

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Snow Mice! review – Christmassy critters play hide and squeak in winter wonderland

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‘I thanked him for ending my acting career!’ – theatre directors on their debt to Tom Stoppard

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Alice: Return to Wonderland review – a wonderfully eccentric new rabbit hole to go down

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Private View review – slick but stifling study of queer entanglement

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Emerald Storm review – a delirious bar-room dance-off with shots of showmanship

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Tell us your favourite stage show of 2025

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Ms Holmes and Ms Watson – Apt 2B review: mysterious case of the joke-cracking Sherlock

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Dog Man: The Musical, based on Dav Pilkey’s bestsellers, to be staged in London

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‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard

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‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

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How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? review – have yourself a merry little rumpus

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Paddington musical in the West End is practically paw-fect, say theatre critics

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The best theatre to stream this month: A Jaffa Cake Musical is a juicy courtroom comedy

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Paddington: The Musical review – they’ve looked after this bear quite splendiferously

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The Little Mermaid review – fairytale musical has splashes of magic and mysticism

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Aladdie review – rags to riches panto is a merry, magical ride

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Mama Goose review – boisterous satirical panto is a carnival of colour and style

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Comedian Judi Love: ‘I’m a big girl, the boss, and you love it’

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With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed us a mind on the move

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Where to start with Tom Stoppard: from Brazil to Leopoldstadt

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Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room

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Tom Stoppard – a life in pictures

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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

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From Christy to Neil Young: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

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Clive Borrow obituary

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – nightmarish take brings the brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface

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Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres scared of them?

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O come out ye faithful: a joyful roundup of UK culture this Christmas

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The Sound of Music review – a rich, relevant revival big on the bangers

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A Child’s Christmas in Wales review – exquisite Dylan Thomas adaptation has magic in every scene

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‘The new Hamilton’? Show with Mary Todd Lincoln as drunken first lady comes to London

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Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar

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‘It felt dangerous You got naggy’: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on power, combovers and Blue Moon

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy review – flimsy extravaganza needs deeper thought

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Ring Ring review – La Ronde reimagined as a carousel of modern anxieties

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Move over Ebenezer! Ebony Scrooge gets Dickens dancing with a hip-hop Christmas Carol – in pictures

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The Little Mermaid review – underwater wonders cast a spell in mid-air

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Secrets of the cow-skulled scarecrow: did one man’s cruel tales inspire Paula Rego’s best paintings?

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Petty Men review – understudies plot their own version of Julius Caesar

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David Copperfield review – Dickens distilled into an inventive three-hander

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Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves’s screen history makes their stage reunion all the more emotional

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Post your questions for Tom Felton

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‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons

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The Firework-Maker’s Daughter review – Philip Pullman’s fairytale is explosive fun

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Bila Burba review – how recreating brutal battles helps pass history down the generations

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Jack and the Beanstalk review – sass, sparkle and fee-fi-fo fun sock it to the baddies

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Can’t tech a joke: AI does not understand puns, study finds

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Gallus in Weegieland review – hilarious show sends Alice down a class rabbit hole

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I Dream of Theresa May review – willing immigrant’s political conversion spurs stiff debate

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Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien: ‘The Spice Girls couldn’t sing But lovely girls’

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‘The ad libs had us shaking behind the camera’: Corbyn and McKellen cameos raise panto’s profile

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Jurassic review – a roaring clash of logic and lies with duelling dinosaurs

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From Wicked: For Good to Stranger Things: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

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All My Sons review – the stars of a dream cast align for Arthur Miller’s towering tragedy

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Back to the Future celebrates 40th with three Marty McFlys performing the musical

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Inseparable, sensuous and confident, the Kessler twins were pioneers of variety show culture

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Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas review – Lloyd Webber and Rice reunite for festive felonies

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Marking Time review – Nico Muhly inspires a brilliant night of beguiling dance

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On the way to Wicked: Cynthia Erivo’s stage musicals – in pictures

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End review – Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen draw couples trilogy to a tender close

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Ride the Cyclone review – teens sing for their salvation in cult musical

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The Scouse Christmas Carol review – knockabout comedy with a potty mouth

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The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’

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