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26 December 2024

  • Composite image. From left to right: Jada Narkle in Guuranda, MTC's 2024 musical production of My Brilliant Career, Zahra Newman in The Hate Race, Callum Linnane in OSCAR and Sukania Venugopal and Radhika Mudaliyar in Counting and Cracking.

    Summer essentials
    Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024

  • Black and white portrait of Maggie Smith looking pensive with her hand in front of her mouth

    The Observer's obituaries of 2024
    Maggie Smith remembered by David Hare

25 December 2024

  • John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in Giant at the Royal Court.

    2024 in Culture
    ‘I was captivated and in awe’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2024

    A towering turn from John Lithgow, musicals in Birmingham and Manchester, and Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde were among the year’s standout shows

24 December 2024

  • Sam Tutty  and Dujonna Gift  in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Criterion theatre, London

    Scene stealing: Tristram Kenton’s best theatre and dance shots of 2024 – in pictures

    Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, the RSC’s School for Scandal and Robin/Red/Breast with Maxine Peake are among the highlights of the photographer’s work for the Guardian this year

23 December 2024

  • Nick Danan in St Nicholas by Conor McPherson at Omnibus theatre.

    St Nicholas review – Conor McPherson’s vampire tale leaves you hungry for more

  • matthew ball and alina cojacaru in metamorphoses

    Observer critics' review of 2024
    Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2024

  • Phia Saban (Antigone), Mark Strong (Oedipus), Lesley Manville (Jocasta), James Wilbraham (Polyneices) and Jordan Scowen (Eteocles) in Oedipus.

    Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2024

  • Nativity web copy

    ‘All the kids were spewing innuendo’: actors and comedians remember their first nativity plays

22 December 2024

  • Interior of the Citizens theatre building during the redevelopment project

    Citizens theatre in Glasgow to reopen in 2025 after major refurbishment

  • Stage crew … Treasure Island at the Orange Tree theatre

    Treasure Island review – dashing female pirates strike gold on high seas

  • Razzle-dazzle meets suppressed emotion … Adam Riches, left, and John Kearns as Ball & Boe.

    Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE Ball & Boe review – a deliciously silly sendup

  • Poster girl … Tricia Paoluccio as Dolly Parton in Here You Come Again.

    Here You Come Again review – Dolly Parton musical lacks spark under the sparkles

  • Spend Spend Spend review – suitably gaudy but unsatisfying revival of 60s pools winner musical

  • Aladdin review – wishes do come true

  • The week in theatre: The Tempest; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; You Me Bum Bum Train – review

  • The week in dance: Nutcracker; Ruination; Cinderella review – sugar plums, hard centres and off to the ball

21 December 2024

  • Reece Clarke

    On my radar
    On my radar: Reece Clarke’s cultural highlights

  • Aleksei Kulagin (Colline), Mikhail Timoshenko (Marcello), Amina Edris (Musetta), Pene Pati (Rodolfo) and Olga Kulchynska (Mimi) in La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini. A Royal Ballet and Opera production @ ROH. Directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Speranza Scappucci. (Opening 13-12-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 12-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review

  • Portrait of Layton Williams striking a pose

    The Q&A
    Layton Williams: ‘How often do I have sex? Often. In my 20s I was a rampant rabbit’

  • Mufasa: The Lion King opens only in cinemas on Dec. 20, 2024

    Going out, staying in
    From Mufasa to Gavin and Stacey: a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK

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