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Plague masks and ambisexual witches: Sleep No More’s immersive experience leaves behind endless gimmicky imitations

Punchdrunk’s revolutionary theater piece is no more after over a decade in New York. Now we’re drowning in structured fun

Steven Phillips-Horst

24, Apr, 2024 @12:00 PM

Baby, He Loves You review – the patriarchal power beneath the perfect wedding

Jodie and Mike are getting married with all the familiar trimmings – wayward stag night, last-night jitters, irritating in-laws – but Maureen Lennon calls out the hidden misogyny

Mark Fisher

24, Apr, 2024 @9:50 AM

Mary Jane review – Rachel McAdams makes a magnetic Broadway debut

The Oscar nominee is a captivating emotional anchor in this drama about a mother coping with her child’s health problems

Adrian Horton

24, Apr, 2024 @1:00 AM

With her Netflix comedy special Autistic Bikini Queen, Fern Brady is a cynic to savour

The huge success of her memoir has turbocharged the Scottish comedian’s career, with midlife, Catholicism and marriage in her withering sights

Brian Logan

23, Apr, 2024 @3:07 PM

‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

David Jays

22, Apr, 2024 @3:48 PM

‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’: the truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy

A decade after her autistic son Connor Sparrowhawk died in a specialist NHS facility, Sara Ryan’s campaign to reveal the truth about what happened is coming to the stage. ‘It’s the most important thing I’ve ever done,’ says playwright Stephen Unwin

John Harris

22, Apr, 2024 @8:00 AM

‘They’re not ashamed of their bodies’: Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

He’s the world’s hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite …

Lyndsey Winship

22, Apr, 2024 @7:00 AM

Letter: Christian Rodska obituary

Billy Tonner writes: One show of poetry on the themes of love and war was so popular that we had to run it for a second night

Billy Tonner

21, Apr, 2024 @3:54 PM

Kiss Marry Kill review – a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale of love behind bars

Dante or Die’s intriguing but underdeveloped story is based on the case of two men, each convicted of a homophobic murder, who became the first same-sex couple to marry in a UK prison

Kate Wyver

21, Apr, 2024 @2:36 PM

1884 review – interactive theatre game invites the neighbours over to resist fascism

Talk of street parties, barbecues and book clubs gives way to politics in this work about authoritarianism, colonialism and how history gets rewritten

Arifa Akbar

21, Apr, 2024 @1:13 PM

Boys on the Verge of Tears review – a whistle-stop tour of bewildered masculinity

Set entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut of male neuroses

Ryan Gilbey

21, Apr, 2024 @11:36 AM

Banging Denmark review – misogynist podcaster meets feminist scholar

Channeling the Gamergate saga and the world of the online pickup artist, Van Badham’s disturbingly timely play offers dark laughs and rewarding nuance

Rachael Healy

21, Apr, 2024 @10:58 AM

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