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12 June 2024

  • Joyful … Gary McNair in Dear Billy.

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

    Five-star standup, late-night debauchery, staggering circus tricks … as the arts spectacular approaches, here are some of the shows rated by our writers

11 June 2024

  • Alison Fiske, Ronnie Stevens And William Russell<br>Actors (L-R) Alison Fiske, Ronnie Stevens and William Russell in costume during rehearsals for the play 'The Merchant of Venice', at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London, July 9th 1969. (Photo by Ian Showell/Keystone/Getty Images)

    Letter: William Russell obituary

    Richard Digby Day writes: His enthusiasm, intelligence and energy made him a constant pleasure to work with
  • Adrian Lukis in Being Mr Wickham.

    Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age

    Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much
  • Cast members of IDP’s Uzhik’s King Lear

    ‘The war was not going to stop me’: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK

    Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 12 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war

10 June 2024

  • Performers on stage

    New Zealand Opera to provide braille surtitles for live performances

    Vision-impaired operagoers now able to follow lyrics or scripts without interference of audio descriptions
  • Ailsa Davidson as Marie Curie.

    Marie Curie review – musical dash through the scientist’s life leaves your head spinning

    This fast and furious Korean show has high-voltage tunes, but suffers from schmaltz and a breathlessly hectic pace

    • ‘We talk about boats … not people’: UK dehumanising refugees, Toby Jones says

    • ‘I can’t understand a lyric’: Patti LuPone laments lost art of projection in musical theatre

    • Bring on the naked rollerskating nuns! The wild visions of Florentina Holzinger

9 June 2024

  • Katie Bird (Eliza Doolittle) in My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady review – comedy and chemistry light up Opera North’s musical-theatre triumph

  • Jade May Lin, George Howard and Charlie Russell in Fanny (2), The Watermill Theatre (c) Pamela Raith Photography

    Fanny review – a fun-packed outing for the other Mendelssohn

  • Kai Luke Brümmer as Moffie.

    Moffie review – gripping one-man show evokes a gay soldier’s torment

  • An audience member wearing headphones listens to the narration for Viola's Room

    The week in theatre: Viola’s Room; A View from the Bridge – review

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Actor Lia Williams on playing Paula Vennells: ‘I think she’s more shallow than malicious. She created her own set of truths’

  • ‘White supremacy was never hidden from me’: Jeremy O Harris on bringing Broadway hit Slave Play to the UK

8 June 2024

  • Denis Lavant in Krapp’s Last Tape in Liverpool

    Beckett Unbound: Krapp’s Last Tape; All That Fall – review

  • Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride Or Die.

    Going out, staying in
    From Bad Boys to Charli XCX: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

7 June 2024

  • A still from Dracula (1931) by George Melford. The film is based on both the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and the play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L Balderston

    Hamilton Deane’s stake in Dracula’s success

  • Deborah Ayorinde and David Walmsley in Wedding Band at Lyric Hammersmith.

    Wedding Band: A Love Hate Story in Black and White review – high-stakes passion in the segregated south

6 June 2024

  • Kicking Off CMA Fest: A Special Conversation With Dolly Parton Hosted By Rachel Smith<br>NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - JUNE 06: Dolly Parton speaks onstage during Kicking Off CMA Fest: A Special Conversation With Dolly Parton Hosted By Rachel Smith at Music City Center on June 06, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/WireImage)

    Dolly Parton announces Broadway musical: ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll clap’

    Hello, I’m Dolly, a stage show inspired by the superstar’s life, will include her classics and new songs
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