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  • Madeleine Potter and Eric Sirakian in The Sound Inside.

    The Sound Inside review – fiction spills into real life for two unworldly writers

    When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked
  • Deadpan … l to r, Jessica Whitehurst as Roxanne and Virginia Gay as Cyrano.

    Cyrano review – Virginia Gay has a nose for romance in gender-swap update

  • Zog and the Flying Doctors, staged by Freckle Productions, at Cadogan Hall, London.

    Zog and the Flying Doctors review – plucky princess and her crew take flight

    Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s tale about an accident-prone dragon is brought to life with sparky rhymes, nuanced acting and high energy
  • Katie Norris: Farm Fatale.

    Katie Norris: Farm Fatale review – this cat-lady comedy becomes a moggy melodrama

  • Emma Sidi

    Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review – bureaucratic blabbermouth’s lurid disclosures

  • Rachel Fairburn: Side Eye review – devilish, seven-headed humour

  • In Two Minds review – a tender look at mothers, daughters and mental illness

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  • I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life review – sharp-witted girlboss satire

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  • Waves by Cloud Gate

    Let’s get physical: the science of dance at the Venice Biennale

    The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection
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  • JOSH THOMAS

    ‘People would clap, and I’d feel repulsed’: Josh Thomas on quitting standup – and what brought him back

  • A waiter delighting customers over breakfast.

    Eggs, bacon, banter: the Scottish hotel trying to make breakfast the funniest meal of the day

  • Hannah Platt posing with bouffant red hair and a stylised nosebleed that meets her red lipstick

    Hannah Platt: ‘I’m a crotchety old man trapped in the body of a little girl’

  • Fatma Aydemir

    When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour

    Fatma Aydemir
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  • Nadia wears suit by lisou.co.uk; top by uk.maje.com; and jewellery by Phase (@phase._)

    ‘We need to be seen’: Nadia Nadarajah on portraying Shakespeare’s greatest heroines – as a deaf actor

  • Lindsay Duncan in Dear Octopus.

    The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

  • ‘There’s the opportunity to join a cult – or even duel’ … Emily Carding in The Key of Dreams.

    ‘A torch illuminates a human skull!’ My horror all-nighter in a haunted manor

  • ‘She could have been as famous as Nye Bevan’ … Ellen Wilkinson.

    ‘A moment to create the country they dreamed of’: Labour’s 1945 landslide becomes a play for today

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Pictures & video

  • Recirquel: Paradisum

    All eyes on Auld Reekie: Edinburgh festival 2024 begins

  • The Constituent was due to begin just as players were lining up to take penalties to secure a place in the Euros semi-finals

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    James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience

    The Constituent was due to begin just as players were lining up to take penalties to secure a place in the Euros semi-finals
  • Rehearsals for The School for Scandal at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC

    Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
  • Groundbreaking … a scene from Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney.

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic

  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome

  • Maleah Joi Moon and the cast of Hell’s Kitchen perform onstage during the 77th annual Tony awards at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday

    Tony awards 2024: red carpet looks and best of the show

  • Derek Deane, back centre, with English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake In-The-Round by Derek Deane, opening at The Royal Albert Hall on 12th June. Rehearsals taking place at ENB Headquarters at Hopewell Sq, Canning Town.
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    Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake

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