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Tosca review – gloriously sung and full of grand passion, this is gripping theatre

Christof Loy’s atmospheric staging of Puccini’s opera doesn’t always cohere, but its psychological probing proves powerful and Adam Smith is a tremendous Cavaradossi

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2022

The best theatre to stream this month: Billie Holiday’s blues, McKellen’s Lear and Newsies

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2022

Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby review – Rambert’s dancers descend into opium-fuelled despair

Benoit Swan Pouffer’s swaggering dancers fly, fling and slide across the stage in this energetic, menacing prequel-style show

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2022

Othello review – Frantic Assembly’s urgent, thrilling tragedy

This physical, modern-day version is immersed in violence, with gang members vying for sex and authority around a pool table

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

The Apology review – powerful tale of wartime ‘comfort women’

Kyo Choi’s shocking and intelligent play tells the story of a Korean woman who was forced into military sex slavery for Japanese troops at the age of 16

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2022

Theatre world pays tribute after death of Marcello Magni

Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicité, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu

The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2022

United Ukrainian Ballet: Giselle review – a classic revitalised

Kyiv-raised choreographer Alexei Ratmansky and a company featuring exiled dancers deliver a moving production with an urgent tone

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2022

‘A call to arms’: Sophie Melville returns to furious drama about austerity’s brutal impact

It was her breakout role – and now the actor is starring once more in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, a play that resonates with her personally and politically

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022

Clorinda Agonistes review – a dance of love and death on the battlefield

A crusader and a Saracen have a fateful encounter in this richly layered work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, set to Monteverdi and a plangent score by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

Salome review – lethal desires and emotional extremism

Alexander Soddy made an auspicious Royal Opera debut with his wonderful conducting of this revival of David McVicar’s staging: a tragedy of horrifying power

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022