61 h. ago Strictly's Anton Du Beke insists Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is 'cancelled' after huge loss

Anton Du Beke was left red-faced after he answered a dance and musical theatre question incorrectly on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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64 h. ago Bullfights, ballet and hot jazz: inside Picasso’s scandalous theatre of sex and death

Famed for his cubist portraits, the Spanish genius also created costumes for the Ballet Russes and loved the intensity of bullfights. A new show at the Tate explores the dramatic side of an uncompromising artistShe is called the Weeping Woman, but that is an understatement. She grinds her teeth on a handkerchief that’s like a jagged white-and-blue spearhead while her fingers claw at her face, tearing the flesh to expose her skull. Her chin is two grenades, her eyes are filled with horror – black silhouettes of planes are held in her transfixed eyeballs. They are the German bombers that attacked the Basque town Guernica on 26 April 1937.Picasso’s Weeping Woman was bought from him by the British surrealist Roland Penrose in November 1937, fresh off the easel. Fifty years later, his son gave it in lieu of tax to the Tate Gallery. Now it is about to star in a Tate Modern exhibition that showcases the museum’s Picasso collection, enhanced with terrific loans from the Musée Picasso in Par...

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5 d. ago FTSE 100 Live 28 August: Cool reaction to Nvidia results, Drax falls on FCA probe

Nvidia results are the main focus for investors after the chip giant’s quarterly figures beat expectations but shares still fell.

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5 d. ago FTSE 100 Live 28 August: Nvidia shares fall on results, index higher

Nvidia results are the main focus for stock market investors after the chip giant’s quarterly figures beat expectations but shares still fell.

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8 d. ago Twelfth Night review – Lupita Nyong’o and Peter Dinklage anchor fun, if thin, production

Delacorte Theater, New YorkA slick, starry cast, also including Sandra Oh and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, bring a lively yet overly abbreviated outdoor take on the comedy to lifeNew York’s most famous venue for Shakespeare in the Park has returned, and with it the grand tradition of waking up at 4am and/or sleeping on the ground in order to score free tickets to star-studded theater. The Delacorte, an open-air amphitheater in Central Park, paused its annual outdoor series of high-profile and free summer shows in 2024 to continue with a renovation, and now returns, refurbished – and temporarily restocked with a bunch of familiar faces. For their production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the Public Theater has snagged Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Daphne Rubin-Vega, singer/actor Moses Sumney, and Lupita Nyong’o in the central role of Viola, opposite her real-life brother Junior as Viola’s twin Sebastian.The Nyong’o siblings and director Saheem Ali all grew up in ...

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1 week ago Edinburgh International Festival dance review: Figures in Extinction

The climate crisis is addressed with empathy, wit and assuredness in a new collaboration between Simon McBurney and Crystal Pite, writes Kelly Apter

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1 week ago Trump could rename Kennedy Center after himself ‘in a week or so’

Trump has repeatedly mentioned renaming the storied Washington, D.C. institution

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1 week ago Keanu Reeves thanked Jonathan Groff for iconic Tony Awards moment

Broadway star infamously straddled the ‘John Wick’ actor during his performance at the 2025 award ceremony

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1 week ago Mel Giedroyc completely misinterpreted David Nicholls’ reaction to Starter for Ten performance

Former ‘Bake Off’ presenter stars in musical adaptation of ‘One Day’ author’s debut novel

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1 week ago Janette Manrara makes 'miss it' admission as she nears 'one week left' in emotional countdown

It comes after the presenter and professional dancer was seen making her theatre debut earlier this year

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1 week ago Andy Nyman: ‘People worry about getting cancelled – The Producers doesn’t care about any of that’

The Leicester-born actor is leading a revival of Mel Brooks’s classic anti-Nazi satire at the Garrick Theatre in London. He speaks to Louis Chilton about breaking taboos, working with Derren Brown, and why he can’t shake the feeling it’s ‘downhill from here’

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1 week ago ‘I’d never seen anything like it’: Lucinda Childs on the extraordinary worlds of Robert Wilson

The dancer and choreographer recalls five decades of collaboration with the visionary stage director, including Einstein on the BeachThere was a production of Bob’s in New York in 1975, A Letter for Queen Victoria, and some friends told me, “Oh, you should see this, it’s really amazing”. I was a dancer and choreographer and I had worked with the Judson Dance Theatre – it was all about no music, pedestrian movement, performing in alternative spaces, avoiding all the traditional trappings. Here was Bob, though, in a theatre, with a composer and lighting it was such a contemporary sensibility. I’d never seen anything like it.I met Bob shortly thereafter at a festival, and he talked right away about working together on Einstein on the Beach [with composer Philip Glass]. We worked in his studio in lower Manhattan. Bob worked in a kind of improvisatory fashion. Day to day we were never sure if he was going to review what we had done or start again. You just would come up with something an...

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1 week ago Hong Kong on show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe for third year running

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the biggest melting pot of international theatre, music, dance and comedy in the world, and this year marks Hong Kong's third year bringing the Hong Kong Soul Showcase to Edinburgh. With three shows spanning dance and music, each performance puts the artistic excellence of Hong Kong front and centre on the world stage. We spoke to producer Sky Sum about the programme.

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2 w. ago Edinburgh International Festival dance review: Scottish Ballet's Mary, Queen of Scots

The iconic title character is upstaged by an older Queen Elizabeth in Scottish Ballet’s vivid portrayal of the parallel courts of Scotland and England, writes Lucy Ribchester

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2 w. ago Valour of Belfast VC recipient marked at VJ Day 80th anniversary in city

Leading Seaman James Magennis was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Singapore in 1945.

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2 w. ago Multinational acrobatic troupe Copenhagen Collective on their dazzling Fringe debut

With a 17-strong cast from 14 different countries, communication is key for the energised members of the self-described ‘Chaos Collective’. By Susan Mansfield

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2 w. ago Steve Buscemi as the letter Q? Tilda Swinton as toilet bowl water? Julio Torres pulls off the impossible in Hollywood

The leftfield comedian and actor is behind some of the best ‘Saturday Night Live’ skits in recent memory. Off the back of his surreal and spectacular HBO series, he speaks with Annabel Nugent about why he has zero interest in going mainstream, his latest colour-focused show – and why Ellen DeGeneres is red

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3 w. ago Singapore like never before: 6 acts bring comedy, theatre, dance and street performance to Edinburgh

The alternative side to Singapore’s cultural riches is being brought to the capital, as the island nation marks 60 years of independence. This is paid for editorial ahead of the Festival and Fringe, and not a Scotsman review.

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3 w. ago Mamma Mia is back on Broadway where it belongs and honestly, thank goodness

When the ‘Mamma Mia’ marquee went back up on Broadway for the first time in more than a decade, it felt like nature was healing. Caitlin Hornik explores why the musical has such enduring appeal.

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3 w. ago Preview: Scottish Ballet’s Mary Queen of Scots at EIF – ‘she had to almost become like a man to survive’

How do you say something new and original about Scotland’s most famous and storied queen? The Scottish Ballet team tell Kelly Apter it’s all about emotion

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