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Patricia Lousada obituary
Other lives: Pioneering ballet dancer in postwar New York
Read more » | Desktop version »Push festival review – dispatches from dystopia and punchlines of pain
Cuts of the Cloth explores a family torn apart by the state while storyteller Conor A offers an account of chronic illness
Read more » | Desktop version »Showstopper! The hit musical that's made up every night
It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell all
Read more » | Desktop version »Dear Elizabeth review – poets bare their souls in a lyrical show
Jade Anouka and Jonjo O’Neill give first-rate performances reading the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Read more » | Desktop version »Violet review – Fun Home duo's road trip gets lost in music
Kaisa Hammarlund impresses but Jeanine Tesori’s musical has a trite message and gets an over-amplified production
Read more » | Desktop version »Going beyond Bausch: Tanztheater Wuppertal's new moves
Almost 10 years after her death, Pina Bausch’s company are presenting a pair of brand new creations. Veteran dancers and newer recruits discuss leaping into the worlds of Dimitris Papaioannou and Alan Lucien Øyen
Read more » | Desktop version »'Shrouded in taboo': how a 1920s German stuntman led to the tackling of an Australian tragedy
The Man with the Iron Neck examines Indigenous suicide with sensitivity, warmth and a dose of hyperreal
Read more » | Desktop version »'You'll never play Romeo!' How character actors have the last laugh
They have always lost out on romantic lead roles. But while glamour fades, talent endures – letting these supporting stars win the long game
Read more » | Desktop version »The Dark review – dangerous escape from Idi Amin's Uganda
Nick Makoha’s fragmented and vertiginous account of his treacherous journey to Britain is a story of our times
Read more » | Desktop version »Royal Ballet: Asphodel Meadows/The Two Pigeons review – beauty and whimsy
Liam Scarlett’s 2010 work is as lyrical as ever, while strong performances and a live pigeon can’t save Frederick Ashton’s cutesy romcom
Read more » | Desktop version »Life By the Throat review – one man’s story of redemption, told by a woman
One man’s life from cradle to grave is the subject of Eve Steele’s intense one-woman play
Read more » | Desktop version »Until the Lions review – Akram Khan’s modern masterpiece
Khan performs in his intensely beautiful take on the Mahabharata for the last time
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