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‘I only play goddesses now’: Janet McTeer on starring in ‘Succession with gods’ drama Kaos | Television

It would be rude to Jeff Goldblum and David Thewlis, among others, to say Janet McTeer acts everybody off the screen in the...

A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview | Stage

TheatreWhy Am I So Single?Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are the dynamic duo behind the fringe-to-West End musical shooting star that became Six....

‘I wanted to give people hope’: how Every Brilliant Thing became theatre’s best antidote to depression | Edinburgh festival 2024

An uplifting play about depression, Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing has become a global phenomenon since its Edinburgh fringe debut 10 years ago....

‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough | Stage

It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. Dedicated to new plays, the...

‘I feel a rising anxiety …’ My odyssey through Edinburgh’s intense, unsettling one-to-one shows | Edinburgh festival 2024

I’m standing on an Edinburgh street corner waiting for my next show but things feel a little different: I’m in a queue of...

‘I exist outside of gender’: drag colossus Wet Mess on being ‘horny for your confusion’ | Edinburgh festival 2024

There are drag queens, drag kings – and then there’s Wet Mess. In May on Instagram, they revealed what is for them a...

‘I can move my body how I want’: standup Stephanie Laing on conquering her fear of public dancing | Edinburgh festival 2024

Stephanie Laing admits she hasn’t been very kind to her body over the years. “I’ve been an alcoholic, I’ve self-harmed, and just been...

‘A torch illuminates a human skull!’ My horror all-nighter in a haunted manor | Immersive theatre

It’s 10:10pm and my heels are sinking into the mud as I heave a wooden box from the depths of a duck pond....

Watch a slapstick Hindi comedy

Zafer Mohiuddin, founder of Kathputliyan theatre group, is known for his signature Urdu and Hindi plays. Most plays directed by him deal with...

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