Edinburgh festival kicks off – in pictures
Photographer Murdo MacLeod has been photographing rehearsals and preparations for this year’s much-reduced programme of the Edinburgh festival, which opened on Saturday Continue reading…
Continue ReadingPhotographer Murdo MacLeod has been photographing rehearsals and preparations for this year’s much-reduced programme of the Edinburgh festival, which opened on Saturday Continue reading…
Continue ReadingThe festival has shrunk because of Covid but there are plenty of shows in person and online this summer – here’s our pick of the first to be announcedSex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)What did they miss out in your sex ed at school? Mamoru Iriguchi fills …
Continue ReadingVaudeville theatre, LondonRuPaul’s Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards rampages into the West End and has an easy way with the crowd“My favourite subject is talking about me,” Alyssa Edwards tells us – so she must really be enjoying her West End show, in whi…
Continue ReadingVaudeville theatre, LondonRuPaul’s Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards rampages into the West End and has an easy way with the crowd“My favourite subject is talking about me,” Alyssa Edwards tells us – so she must really be enjoying her West End show, in whi…
Continue ReadingFrom postponed Meltdowns to melted icecream, shutting down an 11-acre multi-venue site has made for a challenging 15 months at London’s Southbank Centre. But, as it reopens, there have been gains as well as lossesPerhaps not right at the top of the lis…
Continue ReadingDo you want your sightlines unobstructed by big hair, or is avoiding the eyeline of savage comics your priority? Here’s the perfect spot to enjoy the show In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been bur…
Continue ReadingYork Theatre RoyalA mix of music, dance, comedy and poetry delivers a bittersweet reminder of what lockdown deprived us of – and a joyous celebration of live performanceOn the screen at the back of the stage, familiar images flicker: the river, streets…
Continue ReadingAs stage shows return, we pick the best post-lockdown offerings – featuring Egyptian gods, rebelling vicars, dancing youths … and Ian McKellen playing the Dane at 82More events to enjoy: Pop | Art | Classical Continue reading…
Continue ReadingIn the second of our two-parter, rock stars, roadies, actors, dancers, composers and comics describe how their lives have been transformed without live shows – and imagine what now lies ahead‘The nation needed a rescue from despair’: Part 1 of culture’…
Continue ReadingThe identically dressed quintet combines dance, comedy and DIY electro-punk in a world they have created for themselvesHow to describe the joy of watching people dancing in unison? Anthropologists talk about synchronous activities leading to a sense of…
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