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Arlene Phillips

June 2024

  • Keep on truckin’ … Jade Marvin as Momma in Starlight Express.

    Starlight Express review – Lloyd Webber’s bizarre juggernaut is bigger, camper and more OTT than ever

  • ‘After people pretending to be cats, people pretending to be trains wasn’t such a leap’ … Starlight Express.

    How we made
    ‘Steffi Graf went to see it 12 times!’ How we made rollerskating sensation Starlight Express

April 2024

  • Arifa Akbar

    2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe

    Arifa Akbar
  • Nicole Scherzinger with the Best Actress in a Musical award.

    Sunset Boulevard wins big at Oliviers as celebrity talent largely overlooked

March 2024

  • choreographer Arlene Phillips

    The G2 interview
    Arlene Phillips at 80: on Strictly, scandal, survival – and still being a sizzling hot choreographer

    She outraged Mary Whitehouse, worked with Tina Turner, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and is up for an Olivier for choreographing a smash hit production of Guys & Dolls. Will she ever slow down? Not likely ...

December 2023

  • Arlene Phillips with her dog Tiger in the late 60s

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Arlene Phillips on Tiger the terrier – ‘I absolutely fell in love with him’

    He was bought for me by my mentor, who knew I needed a friend. It was the first time I’d really had to care for someone other than myself

October 2023

  • Headshot of choreographer Arlene Phillips

    Flashback
    Arlene Phillips looks back: ‘I always told people to get used to rejection. I had to take my own advice after Strictly’

    The choreographer on her ‘too sexy’ dance troupe, Freddie Mercury and a lifetime defying the odds

April 2023

  • ‘Pickle my walnuts!’ … Len Goodman in California in 2007.

    ‘It’s a 10 for Len’: farewell to gloriously gobby Goodman, the Strictly ballroom sensation

    Almost overlooked for the job of Strictly judge, Len Goodman ended up being the show’s lifeblood, thrilling audiences with his straight-talking ways – and fabulous footwork

February 2023

  • Composite: Dame Arlene Philips and Sir Derek Jacobi, Olivier Awards

    Derek Jacobi and Arlene Phillips picked for career-crowning Olivier awards

    The actor is to get the lifetime achievement honour and the choreographer the special award at this year’s theatre prizes in April

May 2022

  • Peter Andre, centre, with the cast of Grease.

    Grease review – room-filling energy, nostalgia and first-rate tunes

    The unreconstructed sexism remains but so too do the big song and dance numbers in a production featuring Peter Andre

October 2021

  • What's New Pussycat?

    What’s New Pussycat? review – high-voltage collision of two Tom Joneses

    The 18th-century novel and Welsh crooner meet on 1960s Carnaby Street in a spirited jukebox musical

July 2018

  • Members of the Company of Allelujah! - Photo credit Manuel Harlan (3)

    Allelujah! review – Alan Bennett's hospital drama is full of quiet anger

    Patients’ singalongs, Arlene Phillips’s choreography and Bennett’s stinging wit light up a state-of-the-nation play set on a geriatric ward

August 2017

  • Shirley Ballas

    Pass notes
    Shirley Ballas: why the new Strictly judge is already a master of the tabloid-catnip two-step

    Len Goodman’s replacement, a Latin specialist, will need to contend with the show’s ‘curse’ – and comparisons to Arlene Phillips

July 2015

  • Tamara Rojo and Lauren Cuthbertson

    'Understand – it hurts': giants of dance reveal its tolls and triumphs

    Late nights, early mornings, punishing schedules, stage fright, pulled hamstrings, failed auditions … Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Lauren Cuthbertson, Wayne McGregor, Matthew Bourne and more reveal the secrets of the dance studio

March 2015

  • Judy Garland

    A star is reborn: Judy Garland to be played by daughter in new show

    Lorna Luft will take the lead in a show about her mother, Judy Garland, authorised by the star’s estate and with Arlene Phillips as creative director

July 2013

  • Harriet Harman

    Harriet Harman to newspapers: 'how many women over 50 do you employ?'

    Deputy leader of Labour party writes letter to all national editors, saying a 'balanced team' is needed to ensure balanced reporting

May 2013

  • Kate Adie with fellow news-broadcaster Moira Stewart at Buckingham Palace in 2004

    Where are they now? Five female faces who disappeared from our screens

    David Dimbleby is still at the helm of Question Time and John Humphrys presents Today but their female peers have vanished

February 2013

  • Arlene Phillips, choreographer

    On my radar
    On my radar: Arlene Phillips

    The choreographer and former Strictly Come Dancing judge selects her cultural highlights, from ancient art to the latest circus tricks

December 2012

  • Tracey Emin

    Tracey Emin recognised in New Year honours list

    The artist says she is 'looking forward to seeing the look on my mum's face' after being awarded a CBE

September 2012

  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

    The Space channel
    Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 5

    This week's podcast was recorded live at a pop-up event at the Serpentine Gallery's new Summer Pavilion. We also explore the cultural legacy of the 2012 Festival

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