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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

They may not have killed a fatted calf, but there was a (sustained and deserved) standing ovation and even flowers to welcome the return...

When an email drops into your inbox advising the show you’re about to see contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud music and “citrus...

George Orwell’s allegorical tale of revolution gone bad may be almost 80 years old, but it continues to resonate strongly, not least in...

Fame and fortune are fickle mistresses, and trying to make it in the world of entertainment certainly isn’t for the faint-hearted. The...

It was a smash hit in London last summer – so much so the Beeb broadcast it on television as part of its Boxing Day schedule. And now the...

When a sextet of students from Cambridge University’s musical theatre society premiered a new undergraduate show at the Edinburgh Fringe...

They say life imitates art. In this all-female reboot of Tim Firth’s original Neville’s Island, four middle-aged, middle-income, middle...

Bells, bass clarinets, banjos…all that was missing was a star-spangled banner from this blazing ‘all American’ night at the Phil led by...

It’s 10 years now since the National Theatre premiered its ingenious sensory staging of Mark Haddon’s remarkable The Curious Incident of...

There are some big themes at play in this outwardly slight and compact two-hander from the Actors Touring Company. Class, race,...