Stage

After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

Michael Billington

20, Sep, 2023 @7:06 AM

Oscar-nominated romance Cold War to have major London stage adaptation

Elvis Costello songs to feature in play by Girl from the North Country’s Conor McPherson, directed by Rupert Goold at Almeida theatre

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

20, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM

The Australian Ballet: Swan Lake review – a beguiling triumph

David Hallberg’s unashamedly traditional production is laden with Regency splendour, psychological realism and a deep, soulful connection between the doomed lovers

Tim Byrne

20, Sep, 2023 @4:16 AM

‘Why don’t we know more of her? It’s upsetting’: dance genius Bronislava Nijinska

Created 100 years ago, Nijinska’s ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky’s music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hails a trailblazer

Lyndsey Winship

19, Sep, 2023 @7:00 PM

Anthropology review – clever AI missing-person mystery

Lauren Gunderson’s smart play finds a software engineer creating a digital version of a sister who has disappeared

Mark Lawson

19, Sep, 2023 @12:02 PM

Rebecca review – Mrs Danvers steals the show in Du Maurier musical

Among polished performances, Kara Lane’s creepily obsessed housekeeper proves a powerful force

Arifa Akbar

18, Sep, 2023 @10:00 PM

‘An active social act’: the Ukrainian playwright paying tribute to her mother on stage

In her new play, based on WhatsApp correspondence, Sasha Denisova uses her 82-year-old mother Olga to tell a vital story of resistance and survival

David Smith in Washington

18, Sep, 2023 @3:31 PM

The Visitors review – Wesley Enoch at his best in play that thrums with fresh potency

Jane Harrison’s play tells of the first fleet landing from the perspective of the First Nations people watching. It’s a story set in the past – but its most potent questions are about the future

Larissa Behrendt

18, Sep, 2023 @3:00 PM

Esther Manito: ‘I still stand backstage thinking I should have worked in John Lewis’

The standup on her comedy heroes, preshow jitters and the parenting double standards for male and female comedians

Interview by Liam Pape

18, Sep, 2023 @10:23 AM

Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool review – plunging into the deep end of mortality

Where other midlife male standups splash in the shallows of domesticity, dinner parties and feeling tired, Birbiglia dives right into family, death and the meaning of life

Brian Logan

17, Sep, 2023 @1:00 PM

Seann Walsh review – the comic returns to type as he surveys the bin-fire of hope that is middle-age

As the dust settles on his recent tabloid notoriety, Walsh contrasts the domestic landscape of maturity with his wild youth