Ted Lasso star and Celebrity Traitors finalist will take the helm at Royal Albert Hall ceremony in London next month as special award recipients are announcedNick Mohammed has been named as the host for this year’s Olivier awards, which take place at t…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonFearlessly provocative and covered in gunk, Garland delivers a wild and elusive show about queerness and carnality‘It’s divisive.” Well, you’d think so, a “kink performance art” clown show with nudity, bodily fluids, worms and, er, …
Continue ReadingThe composer’s new album features tracks from Hamlet and Everyman, while The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa has a free week on YouTubeDom Coyote says “electronics, acoustics, voice and story collide” in his compositions for theatre. His n…
Continue ReadingThe composer’s new album features tracks from Hamlet and Everyman, while The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa has a free week on YouTubeDom Coyote says “electronics, acoustics, voice and story collide” in his compositions for theatre. His n…
Continue ReadingÒran Mór, GlasgowAn anecdote about a trip to find Paul McCartney’s Scottish retreat turns into a sweet-natured two-handerMilly Sweeney is a young writer gaining traction. Staged in Pitlochry last year, her play Water Colour, about the changing states o…
Continue ReadingComedians, theatre-makers and actors including Rachel Weisz, Sally Phillips and Simon Munnery recall the late teacher’s alarming lessonsPhilippe Gaulier, clown guru, dies aged 82Louise Brealey Continue reading…
Continue ReadingThe Canadian performer visited hospices, mystics and cemeteries to research Age Is a Feeling. The show, which has now been performed in 10 languages, has reduced men in their 70s to tearsIt is the summer of 2024 and Haley McGee is performing Age Is a F…
Continue ReadingSadler’s Wells East, LondonThe all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance’s high art and sillier sideWhen the curtain goes up here in east London, just across town there’s another opening ni…
Continue ReadingThe Complicité founder remembers his teacher’s wicked laughter, provocative demands and infinite generosity• Philippe Gaulier dies aged 82Many speak of a teacher in their childhood who changed them, someone who reveals knowledge about the world they ca…
Continue ReadingThe master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment – and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage• Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82W…
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