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Film and theatre producer who made The Audience the starting point for The Crown, and was behind Another Country, The Lady in the Van, Iris and Notes on a Scandal

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2026: full list of nominations

Into the Woods and Paddington: The Musical are this year’s most-nominated shows with 11 nods each. See who else is in the running at this year’s awards

The Guardian - UK

Robert Aramayo: The Hull lad who beat Leonardo DiCaprio to a Bafta

IN FOCUS: Ellie Harrison looks at how the ‘I Swear’ star made his way to awards victory, all while raising awareness of a widely misunderstood condition and starring in London’s buzziest play

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The Shitheads review – primal urges rear up in a playful, prehistoric oddity

Cave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls’ savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans

The Guardian - UK

The S***heads, review – Violent Stone Age cannibals are brought to life with a sly modern twist

3/5 The Royal Court’s new play is a thought-provoking piece of provocation

The Independent UK

Guess How Much I Love You? review – shattering portrait of a pregnancy in crisis

Rosie Sheehy and Robert Aramayo excel as a couple reeling from an ultrasound scan in Luke Norris’s extraordinary play

The Guardian - UK

Think panto season is behind you? Oh no it isn’t – some haven’t even opened yet

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year

The Guardian - UK

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Unmissable London: The best theatre, film, dance, opera, TV and music of 2026

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. Lily Allen in the West End. A Gorillaz football stadium takeover. It’s all on in the capital

Evening Standard

Porn Play review, Royal Court Theatre – Ambika Mod’s bold addiction drama resists simple answers

4/5 The ‘One Day’ star plays a young professor whose addiction to violent pornography online makes for confronting real-life viewing

The Independent UK

Porn Play review – Ambika Mod excels as an academic undone by pornography addiction

Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s drama toggles smartly between digital and physical worlds as it traces a scholar’s grim compulsion

The Guardian - UK

From Bugonia to All’s Fair: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Yorgos ‘Poor Things’ Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for a weird kidnapping thriller, while Kim Kardashian and Sarah Paulson get the right side of the law in Ryan Murphy’s LA story

The Guardian - UK

Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman set for Royal Court's 70th anniversary season

The Royal Court’s big celebratory year in 2026 features a host of top talent and rising stars

Evening Standard

Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary

Tilda Swinton’s performance marks 30 years since audiences last saw her tread the boards, meanwhile Gary Oldman will be in Krapp’s Last Tape

The Guardian - UK

Sir Gary Oldman and Tilda Swinton part of Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season

Sir Gary will star in and direct Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape.

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The Unbelievers review – Nicola Walker grapples with family tragedy in a flat drama

Marianne Elliott directs Nick Payne’s tonally uneven play about a missing son that comes with ill-fitting moments of comedy

The Mary Sue

I could listen to David Corenswet talk about Star Wars and movies for hours

This is just nice.

The Guardian - UK

The play that changed my life: ‘Daniel Kaluuya winked at me and my mum – and said he acted better for us’

A ringside seat at Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch inspired a teenager to switch career plans from law to theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not happy-clappy’: the extraordinary story of Speedo Mick

As a musical about him opens at Liverpool’s Royal Court, Michael Cullen tells of hope, heart – and hitting rock bottom

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The Independent UK

John Lithgow and Lesley Manville take home acting gongs at starry Olivier Awards

Imelda Staunton and Romola Garai were among the winners of the night

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2025: full list of winners

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Giant and Fiddler on the Roof were among the big winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Ambika Mod to play porn addict in ‘funny, unsettling and honest’ play at the Royal Court

The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatre

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

Gary Oldman’s tackling Beckett, Strictly winner Chris McCausland is on a huge standup tour – and mods can rev their scooters to a dance Quadrophenia

The Guardian - UK

Expendable review – stories of women caught up in grooming scandal told too briefly

As reprisals against Pakistani men suspected of abuse rage outside, one family is trapped at home where we are sped through the many issues this raises

The Guardian - UK

Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

‘One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. “These are wonderful pictures,” he said’

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