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May 2024

  • Performers in silver bodysuits wearing colourful cartoon-like heads

    Exit, pursued by a panda: the Brits bringing eye-popping Shakespeare to the Baltics

    The Winter’s Tale is retold with a virtual reality plot set in Silicon Valley and hardly any lines from the original, staged at a bold Latvian theatre elevating English talent

March 2024

  • Tom Francis as Joe Gillis and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

    Olivier awards 2024: complete list of nominations

    Sunset Boulevard and Dear England have the most nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running

January 2024

  • Arresting … Jodie Jew Yates’s design for Phillip Pullman’s The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage.

    Hessian hyena and a pack of playful concepts reveal bright future for stage design

    The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers’ royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus

December 2023

  • Bill O'Neill: The Amazing Banana Brothers.

    Heard the one about the 80 banana skins? The chaotic world of comedy props

    From Bill O’Neill’s slippery skins to Grubby Little Mitts’ ping-pong eyeballs, performers explain why their comedy leans on more than a mic stand
  • Marion Cito.

    Marion Cito, ingenious costume designer to Pina Bausch, dies aged 85

    Cito, who had been a dancer herself, spent 40 years working for Tanztheater Wuppertal
  • Tall tales … the warehouse of panto treasures.

    ‘What do we clean the costumes with? Vodka!’ Inside Britain’s panto powerhouse

    With 10 shows on and 1m tickets sold, Evolution are panto gods. But how do you work a giant? What will 50kg of glitter cover? And why did a bench almost cause a riot?

November 2023

  • Equipped with harnesses … Sandra Smith inspects the wigs of witches Dylan Read and Amber Sylvia Edwards in the RSC’s Macbeth.

    ‘You could beat someone to death with that!’ Great theatre wigs – and their miraculous creators

    Few things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and their yeti-like creations

July 2023

  • Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine, with a cast including Peggy Ashcroft, centre, and lighting designed by Leonard Tucker, at the National Theatre, London,  1980.

    Leonard Tucker obituary

    Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End
  • Douglas Heap met his wife, Jenny, while they were painting a set at the Lyric theatre in Hammersmith, west London

    Other lives
    Douglas Heap obituary

    Other lives: Theatrical designer who created sets for theatres in the West End and on Broadway
  • Stephen Jackman-Torkoff (centre) as Richard II.

    Richard II in a hot tub, Much Ado done anew: Canada’s Stratford festival puts shocks into Shakespeare

    A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force

June 2023

  • Catalina Gato’s diorama The Giant Cat.

    Incredible scenes! Prague stages design spectacular with a giant cat, tiny flats and a 16-legged theatre

    With dozens of installations from around the world, the quadrennial returns to bring the Czech capital an extravaganza of performance design

April 2023

  • Sue Laurie

    Other lives
    Sue Laurie obituary

    Other lives: Teacher of Alexander technique who helped actors and directors improve their physical and mental approach to stage work
  • Arifa Akbar

    Olivier awards toast the screen stars storming it on stage

    Arifa Akbar
    Normal People’s Paul Mescal and Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer took acting prizes at the ceremony while the Almeida’s success shows Rupert Goold has a winning formula
  • Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan both won awards for A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

    My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

March 2023

  • Jacobi: ‘The voice that can fill an auditorium is thrilling.’

    Sir Derek Jacobi: ‘The sound and magic of voice are disappearing from theatre’

    The acclaimed actor – who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Olivier Awards – says the demise of repertory theatre is putting paid to the vocal prowess

February 2023

  • Olivier awards.

    Olivier awards 2023: complete list of nominations

    My Neighbour Totoro leads the way with nine nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running

January 2023

  • High-end style … Naya Lovell and Dylan Tedaldi in costumes designed by Eleanor Bull for Cerberus by Ben Duke, performed by Rambert at Sadler's Wells in 2022.

    Out of the spotlight: seven of dance’s hottest hidden talents

    From costume and lighting designers to composers and producers, here are some of the dynamos bringing breathtaking dance shows to the stage
  • The Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester, photographed in 1999.

    ‘Is that a theatre?’ How Manchester built a dream space to leave the world behind

    The former artistic director of the Royal Exchange reveals its extraordinary history – and the dramatic opportunities and unforgettable moments its unique design gave him
  • My Neighbour Totoro star Mei Mac.

    2023 culture preview
    It’s showtime! Stage sensations to watch out for in 2023

    Ross Willis unveils his new play Grim Brenda, Nancy Medina takes over at Bristol Old Vic and Sung Im Her has all the right moves. Here are 10 of theatre’s brightest talents today

November 2022

  • Peter Farley

    Other lives
    Peter Farley obituary

    Other lives: Theatre designer, international exhibition curator and lecturer
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