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The actor best known as TV’s Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett

INTERVIEW: Almost three decades after Harewood made history as the National Theatre’s first Black Othello, he is stepping back into the role. Annabel Nugent meets him and his co-stars over steak and salad to talk drama therapists, stinky smooches, and Blackface in theatre

The experimental annexe of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

It was a classic year at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which took place earlier this month. If there was any observable shift, it was the number of filmmakers who turned to smaller-scale dramas of human connection, with action, fantasy and, to some degree, politics less prominent than usual.

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Bette Midler says the script for Hocus Pocus 3 is “brilliant” and she is very excited.

Depiction of Shakespeare character by Friedrich Heyser believed to have inspired pop superstar’s new music video

Since Alina Sarnatska’s first play premiered a year ago, she has documented wartime Ukraine with unflinching frankness

Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training

ChatGPT-5 has become more conversational and personal, making it an ideal writing partner, but harder to detect

Woody Allen has paid a heartfelt tribute to his late friend and former lover Diane Keaton following her death over the weekend.