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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship

The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2025

Clockwise from top left: Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes; Jau’mair Garland and Seren Williams in We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon; Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston in Much Ado About Nothing; Danielle Steers in Hot Mess.
Clockwise from top left: Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes; Jau’mair Garland and Seren Williams in We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon; Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston in Much Ado About Nothing; Danielle Steers in Hot Mess. Composite: Tristram Kenton/ Marc Brenner/ Mark Senior

Theatre

10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Staging a bestselling book that has already been adapted into a film starring bona fide national treasures (Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton) might have been daunting. But, in Chichester, Katy Rudd’s musical of a man’s Bunyanesque journey to visit a dying woman met that challenge with lo-fi eccentricity and folksy songs with a foot-stomping spirit (composed by Michael Rosenberg, AKA Passenger). In the West End from 29 January. Read the review

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