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‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama

silverguide.site – After surviving the whirlwind of Doctor Who, the actor returns to the stage in ‘horny Elizabethan drama’ Born With Teeth. He and co-star Edward Bluemel discuss bust lips, hot pants and queering the Bard’s story…
‘I would go-go dance in a shower then work on sonnets!’ Ncuti Gatwa’s sexy new Shakespearean drama
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Cheers to The Weir! What makes Conor McPherson’s mysterious pub drama so mesmerising?

silverguide.site – As Brendan Gleeson prepares for his role in a revival of the 1997 hit, the stars of earlier productions toast its deceptively moving and profound barfly banter…
Cheers to The Weir! What makes Conor McPherson’s mysterious pub drama so mesmerising?
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‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves

silverguide.site – A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy place…
‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves
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Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’

silverguide.site – The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back?…
Comedian John Tothill: ‘My second near-death experience? I blame the bedtime cheesy chips’
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Kimberly Akimbo review – this Tony-winning musical is a joyous treasure

silverguide.site – Her Majesty’s theatre, Adelaide; then Arts Centre MelbourneStarring Marina Prior, Christie Whelan Browne and Casey Donovan, this Broadway hit about a teenager who ages four times too fast is both absurd and introspective…
Kimberly Akimbo review – this Tony-winning musical is a joyous treasure
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Peter James obituary

silverguide.site – Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith…
Peter James obituary
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You’re definitely having a laugh! Six hot comedy debuts at Edinburgh fringe 2025

silverguide.site – Molly McGuiness is treating audiences to a buffet, sketch troupe Simple Town bring fast-paced fun and Jessica Barton plays Mary Floppins … Here are half a dozen essential acts at the festival…
You’re definitely having a laugh! Six hot comedy debuts at Edinburgh fringe 2025
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No President review – surreal Trump satire with ballet shoes and boners

silverguide.site – New York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts…
No President review – surreal Trump satire with ballet shoes and boners
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The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel

silverguide.site – Falstaff’s corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes’ summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xenophobia…
The Merry Wives of Windsor review – Shakespeare’s script is the weakest bit of this joyous revel
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Valery Panov obituary

silverguide.site – Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release…
Valery Panov obituary
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Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew

silverguide.site – Callum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in their opposing places…
Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew
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King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington

silverguide.site – The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems…
King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington
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‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance

silverguide.site – Inspired by club culture and reincarnation, Tianzhuo Chen and Asian Dope Boys have devised a mesmerising show that unfolds in six two-hour chapters. Prepare to enter hell and then be healed…
‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance
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‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme

silverguide.site – Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return…
‘They rewrite the ending’: the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme
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Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

silverguide.site – Minchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour touring show…
Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit
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The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided

silverguide.site – Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aesthetics…
The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided
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Jesus Christ Superstar review – innovative, emotional revival is divinely inspired

silverguide.site – Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1971 Biblical rock musical seems strikingly topical in this powerful staging, which has a large cast of actor-musicians and a Gethsemane scene in a real garden…
Jesus Christ Superstar review – innovative, emotional revival is divinely inspired
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Mother Play review – Sigrid Thornton is terrific as a gin-soaked, monstrous matriarch

silverguide.site – Melbourne Theatre CompanyThornton, Yael Stone and Ash Flanders give beautiful performances as a miserable family, but startling tonal shifts send this American play into silliness…
Mother Play review – Sigrid Thornton is terrific as a gin-soaked, monstrous matriarch
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Annie Stainer obituary

silverguide.site – Dancer and mime artist best known for her eponymous solo trilogy who also performed with David Bowie on film and stage…
Annie Stainer obituary
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A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic

silverguide.site – Riven in two by grief – with musician John Grant playing the mind and former Royal Ballet principal Ed Watson the body – lead character George takes a finely danced journey back toward life’s flow in Jonathan Watkins’ inventive ballet…
A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic
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