3 h. ago Women's Football Awards 2025 shortlist in full as Alex Scott tipped for top honour

The shortlist for the 2025 Women's Football Awards has been unveiled, setting the stage for a star-studded evening in London on Thursday, 1 May

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4 h. ago Glastonbury confirms who will headline Pyramid Stage in 2025

Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975 will be coming to the fore alongside golden oldies Neil Young and Rod Stewart

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9 h. ago ‘My career flashed before my eyes’: Steven McRae’s devastating onstage injury and proud return as Romeo

When the Royal Ballet star snapped his achilles tendon during a performance in 2019, he feared for his future in dance. A new documentary charts his gruelling recoveryDebuting in the role of Romeo as a young dancer with the Royal Ballet in 2007 remains one of my all-time highs. Each time you step out to tackle the iconic repertory feels surreal and to perform on the Royal Opera House stage is the most extraordinary feeling.That’s something I have regularly experienced since joining the company in 2004 until Bang! In October 2019, alone on stage with 2,250 people watching, I took off for a jump and my achilles tendon snapped. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Artists have the power to stand up for truth, says Edinburgh festival director

Performers can fight cynicism in age of Trump, says Nicola Benedetti as she announces 2025 programmeMusicians and artists should challenge disinformation and cynicism in global politics by standing up for fundamental truths, the violinist Nicola Benedetti has said.Benedetti, the director of the Edinburgh international festival, said the arts played an essential role during periods of turmoil by showing the best of human achievement. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago The play that changed my life: how a pratfall in a student fringe farce made James Graham a playwright

Performing in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist during A-levels was a lesson in low-art laughs and political anger that unites an audienceIt was 1999. I was doing A-levels in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, the former mining community I depict in my TV series Sherwood. My comprehensive school was one of the biggest in the country, one of a very small number with a working theatre. I wouldn’t be doing what I get to do now without that massive bit of luck.I started doing loads of acting, and the department decided to do the first A-level drama they’d ever done because there were about a dozen of us who wanted to keep going after GCSEs.As told to Lindesay IrvineJames Graham’s adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff is on tour until 5 July Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Keep dancing: Chanel DaSilva on taking risks, dealing with grief and tackling Trump

As she brings A Shadow Work to the UK, the New York choreographer talks about therapy, ‘pulling up women with me’ and art-led activismChanel DaSilva has always been a dancer. “I felt completely free,” she says of her first class. “I felt at home. Like I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. And it’s weird to know that at the age of three.” The New Yorker, 38, is a rising star choreographer in the US, with credits including Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet, and is about to make her international debut in London.DaSilva’s dance style has been described as “technique meets humanity”, in the sense that she draws on the precision and virtuosity of classical and modern dance, but brings in a freedom and naturalism. The piece she has made here for the company Ballet Black, called A Shadow Work, is in part about dealing with grief over the death of her mother when DaSilva was 19. At the time, trying to get through her college education, she couldn’t cope with it. “So I packed up that g...

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4 d. ago Athol Fugard was a dreamer, listener and master storyteller – on stage and at home | Barney Norris

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than angerI feel that Athol Fugard and his wife, Paula Fourie, changed my life in the autumn of 2022 when I visited South Africa to spend time with them and their daughter Halle. We were supposed to be working on a book together, and we did; but our time became so much more than that. There were lunches in the house or the restaurant round the corner; walks in the woods; a braai that went on past midnight.Over coffee in the mornings I’d sit with Athol and we’d use an app on his phone to identify the calls of all the birds in the garden. Then he might tell me a story from his life – the awe he felt when he asked Yvonne Bryceland to smash a chair to bits during rehearsals for Antigone and she proceeded to do so for a full 30 minutes; the journey he made by sea at 18 from Cairo to Japan, when an illiterate Somalian sailor used to watch him every night as he wrote a novel...

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4 d. ago Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92

A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The IslandThe South African playwright and director Athol Fugard, whose works included the plays Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island and the novel Tsotsi, has died at the age of 92.A major political dissident playwright of the 20th century, Fugard wrote more than 30 dramas including Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (in 1972) and “Master Harold” and the Boys (1982). Both of those drew upon the time in the 1950s when he could only find employment as a clerk in one of the courts where black South Africans were charged (and inevitably convicted) of breaches of the “pass laws”, designed to control the movements of a racially segregated population under the apartheid system. There, he witnessed hourly the dehumanisation of those who had chosen the “wrong” streets or people. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Meaning behind The 1975 band name as they prepare for Glastonbury headline slot

The 1975 will headline Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage this summer but do you know the true meaning behind the band name? Fans have been left divided over the festival's line-up

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8 d. ago Glastonbury Festival fans worry Pyramid Stage will be 'empty' for one act

Glastonbury Festival fans are wondering if the Pyramid Stage will be cleared out of fans given a headliner clash which will see Charli XCX headline the Other Stage at the same time as Neil Young

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8 d. ago All the ways you can still get Glastonbury 2025 tickets as headliners confirmed

Tickets went on general sale in November, but a Glastonbury ticket resale is anticipated in the coming weeks

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8 d. ago Glastonbury fans threaten to 'sell their tickets' as 'worst line

Glastonbury Festival fans have been left divided after organisers shared this year's line-up today (March 6) as they question why one performer was snubbed for a Pyramid Stage headline slot

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8 d. ago Glastonbury reveals acts for 2025 as headliners are confirmed and festival goers slam 'worst line

Glastonbury Festival has revealed the line-up for this year's event as it announced the headline acts.

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1 week ago Gavin and Stacey star makes bold career move post show ending

Mathew Horne is set to take the stage at some big music events in 2025.

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1 week ago Olivier Awards 2025 nominations see Hollywood veterans take centre stage as Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville and John Lithgow all receive nods

Hosted by Beverley Knight and Billy Porter at the Royal Albert Hall on April 6, the 2025 Oliviers will celebrate the best of London's West End.

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1 week ago Ben Stiller suffers stage mishap while presenting at Oscars 2025

Parks And Recreation star Nick Offerman , who was narrating the ceremony, introduced him once - then again when he failed to materialize the first time.

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1 week ago LA firefighters draw laughs as they take the stage to deliver zingers during 2025 Oscar ceremony

The first responders joked about both Timothée Chalamet and ‘Joker 2’

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1 week ago Conan O'Brien shocks Oscars fans as he grosses them out within minutes of hosting

Conan O'Brien made history at the 2025 Oscars as he took to the stage to host the prestigious event - but his opening monologue didn't go down too well with fans

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1 week ago BRITs fans all say same thing as Jade performs after making history with first solo win

Fans of former Little Mix star Jade were frustrated by one element of her 'insane' performance as she took to the stage at London's O2 arena halfway through the 2025 BRIT Awards

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1 week ago Glastonbury signs Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975 to headline legendary festival amid fears younger fans will be put off by Rod Stewart and Neil Young

With Sir Rod Stewart and Neil Young the only confirmed headline acts for this year's Glastonbury, fans had feared the legendary music festival could be dominated by 'wrinkly rockers'.

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