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The Strictly stars with previous dance experience, from Layton Williams to Angela Rippon

From musical theatre stars to ‘zero’ experience, we’ve broken down which ‘Strictly’ stars have dance training

The Independent UK

Peter Wilson obituary

Leading West End producer who took over the Theatre Royal in Norwich in 1992 and completely transformed its fortunes

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble

The Guardian - UK

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The Strictly stars with previous dance experience, from Layton Williams to Angela Rippon

From musical theatre stars to ‘zero’ experience, we’ve broken down which ‘Strictly’ stars have dance training

The Independent UK

Strictly Come Dancing 2023: What dance experience does each contestant have?

From musical theatre stars to ‘zero’ experience, we’ve broken down which ‘Strictly’ stars have dance training

The Independent UK

Strictly Come Dancing 2023: What dance experience does each contestant have?

From musical theatre stars to ‘zero’ experience, we’ve broken down which ‘Strictly’ stars have dance training

The Independent UK

Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

Evening Standard

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The best autumn theatre to book from Andrew Scott as Vanya to Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard

Do you want to see a musical, new writing, Shakespeare or, er, Southgate? Autumn’s packed stage calendar has something for everyone

Evening Standard

The plucky British musicals hoping to ‘do a Six’ at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023

One’s a dystopian love story with a backdrop of Jamaican soundsystems, one’s challenging the stereotyping of South East Asians, one’s set in a toilet...

Evening Standard

Luke Evans and Penelope Wilton to star in new West End comedy about the Queen Mother

Backstairs Billy explores the relationship between the Queen Mother and her servant Billy

Evening Standard

Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

The Guardian - UK

Angela Thorne obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor best known for her roles in the BBC’s To the Manor Born and the West End farce Anyone for Denis?

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t be frightened of chaos’: Mark Rylance answers questions from readers and famous fans

The revered actor, passionate activist and I Ching devotee fields queries on self-doubt, levelling up the arts, and turning loss into beauty

The Guardian - UK

Patriots at the Noel Coward review: Tom Hollander is incandescent in this story of the fight for Russia’s soul

This hectic, tragicomic tale has already gained new weight and prescience as it transfers into the West End from the Almeida

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Tickets go on sale for Death Note: The musical based on the Japanese manga series

This will be the award-winning musical’s English language premiere

Manchester Evening News

Broadway hit musical Come From Away coming to The Lowry in Salford

Come from Away musical will be touring across the UK

The Guardian - UK

Anger as intruder tries to take photos in 2:22 West End dressing room

Sophia Bush, who has joined the cast of the West End thriller, said the unidentified man had made the experience ‘ugly and scary and sad’

Evening Standard

Operation Mincemeat at Fortune Theatre review: this gung-ho musical could be just what the West End needs

Mincemeat the musical has wit, charm and a Eurobeat number for a Nazi boyband

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Barbara Young obituary

Character actor who appeared on the West End stage and in TV shows including I, Claudius, Coronation Street and Hazell

Evening Standard

Blow winds and crack your cheeks: Kenneth Branagh to play King Lear in the West End

It will mark the actor and director’s first stage role since The Winter’s Tale in 2015

Liverpool Echo

Jodie Comer's Broadway show rakes in over £700k before opening to public

The Childwall-born star's show is at New York's John Golden Theatre after a sold-out stint in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Patsy Ferran wins Critics’ Circle theatre award for 11th-hour Streetcar role

Lizzie Annis wins best newcomer and Arthur Hughes wins best Shakesperean performance as actors with disabilities take two prizes

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro triumphs at Olivier awards

Adaptation of Studio Ghibli film wins six awards, while Jodie Comer wins for Prima Facie and A Streetcar Named Desire brings Paul Mescal best actor prize

The Guardian - UK

Michael Rudman obituary

Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur Miller

Daily Mirror

Corrie's Maureen Lipman in tears as TV storyline brought back emotional memories

Dame Maureen Lipman has painfully revealed the scenes depicting her on-screen dog Cerberus dying reminded her of saying goodbye to her own dog during Covid 19

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