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The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2025

A meet-cute between Humanity and Earth, a mod ballet and Nick Mohammed’s career-best standup set – our critics pick the best stage shows of the year

The Guardian - UK

Akram Khan Company: Thikra – Night of Remembering review – forget the meaning, feel the colour and emotion

Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe mythological piece for 12 female dancers was developed in Saudi Arabia and pulsates with physical intensity and ancestral rage

The Guardian - UK

Thikra: Night of Remembering at Sadler’s Wells review — 'a stirring finale for Akram Khan's company'

3/5 The dancer winds up his company after 25 impressive years with this all-female show that’s fierce — if confusing

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Choreographer Akram Khan on his all-female show inspired by the Saudi desert

British choreographer Akram Khan does things his own way, and his latest mythic show Thikra will also draw to a close his own company... but this is not the end

Evening Standard

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’

The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homeland

The Guardian - UK

Where will the next Akram Khan come from?

Letters: Sharon Watson and Mark Osterfield say small dance institutions are at risk under current funding provisions, which will only deepen inequality in access to the arts

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet to perform Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, with music by Sufjan Stevens

Director Kevin O’Hare announces staging of NYCB choreographer Peck’s 2014 piece, as well as new works by Akram Khan and Cathy Marston

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‘We fell in love with the ballet and with her’: why 184-year-old Giselle keeps us swooning

The role has inspired the world’s best ballerinas and her story is as popular as ever – whether revived, reimagined or deconstructed. Dancers explain the appeal of Giselle

The Guardian - UK

Bradford city of culture: five events to look out for in 2025

Music, dance, theatre and even magic on offer, as Dynamo plans ‘Bradford’s equivalent of Olympic opening ceremony’

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2024

Sarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics’ picks of the best stage shows of the year

The Guardian - UK

The week in dance: MaddAddam; Gigenis: the Generation of the Earth – review

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian vision provides rich inspiration for Wayne McGregor, while Akram Khan goes back to his Indian classical roots to transfixing effect

The Guardian - UK

Akram Khan: Gigenis review – dancer’s exhilarating return to his roots with an expert ensemble

In a production loosely based on the Mahabharata, Khan has gathered an expert ensemble of classical Indian dancers who create a world that echoes through the centuries

The Guardian - UK

Gigenis at Sadler’s Wells review: Akram Khan returns to his roots in this classy, atmospheric show

4/5 Khan’s first appearance on the London stage for four years rattles with expressive, arrowing vigour

Evening Standard

Akram Khan’s Giselle at Sadler’s Wells review: this resonant, faultless production is shatteringly powerful

There’s a cinematic drive and compulsion to this rethinking of a heritage ballet, and it holds its terrible silences magnificently

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The Jungle Book Reimagined: how an eight-year-old girl helped reinvent a classic

UK choreographer Akram Khan planned his new show while working from home, with his daughter drawing in the corner. She overheard his meetings – and had some notes

Chicago Sun-Times

Celebrating 20 years, Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance remains a world-class cultural arts hub

The Millennium Park venue will mark the anniversary with an all-day event featuring many of Harris’ resident companies.

Evening Standard

Akram Khan’s Creature at Sadler’s Wells review: ENB’s show is impressive but oof! It’s joyless

In Khan’s grimly imagined production with English National Ballet, humanity has trashed this planet and nothing remains

The Guardian - UK

Creature review – Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan join up for intriguing dance film

Khan’s creation for English National Ballet is filmed by Kapadia, and has an ambiguous intensity that should interest audiences beyond dance fans

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‘Nature will punish you’: Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan on their climate crisis dance film

The director of Amy, who’s never watched a ballet, has adapted a dystopian sci-fi piece by the choreographer, who’s never made a film. They discuss art, myths, and why Bruce Lee connects them as much as their south Asian roots

The Guardian - UK

Out of the spotlight: seven of dance’s hottest hidden talents

From costume and lighting designers to composers and producers, here are some of the dynamos bringing breathtaking dance shows to the stage

The National (Scotland)

Two new dance adaptations of classical works impress at Fringe

UNDER Christopher Hampson’s leadership, Scottish Ballet has not shrunk from innovation and risk-taking. In transposing the 1870 ballet Coppelia…

The National (Scotland)

Akram Khan puts nature front and centre in new production of The Jungle Book

A NEW work by the acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan is always a highly anticipated event in the world of dance-theatre. The creator of such…

The Guardian - UK

‘A Jerusalem for everyone’: was the 2012 Olympics the last gasp of liberal Britain?

Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London games was meant to be a celebration of Britain’s diverse history and its open-minded values. Ten years later, it seems more like a requiem

The Guardian - UK

Film-maker Asif Kapadia: ‘I am a fan of social media. At least it gives people a voice’

The award-winning documentarian talks about the films that make him cry, being caught up in the Champions League chaos in Paris – and a ‘mad’ new project

The Guardian - UK

Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined review – a bleak post-apocalyptic vision

A grim, sporadically great show sees Mowgli saved by animals who have taken over idle land in the wake of climate disaster

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