Linbury theatre, LondonYolande Yorke-Edgell and company join the dots between the founder-mother of American modern dance Martha Graham and the late Robert CohanProgrammes by Yorke Dance Project often refer to past works and traditions. Their current e…
From The Card Counter to Diana Ross: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether it is Vegas gamblers, Peruvian art treasures or one-off jazz collaborations you’re after, our critics have your plans for the week coveredThe Card CounterOut nowOscar Isaac (pictured, above) burns up the screen in the role of a former Guantánam…
Tim Dowling: A trip to the theatre is on the cards. To go or not to go?
I’ve been on a plane and shaken people’s hands but as restrictions lift, I still haven’t been to a pub or to a live show I am sitting in front of my computer when my wife rings me from a train platform.“Busy?” she says. Continue reading…
Footfalls and Rockaby review – Beckett double bill casts a chilling spell
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonPacing endlessly and rocking towards the big sleep, Siân Phillips and Charlotte Emmerson’s performances make this evening deeply affectingThis no-frills cellar theatre is becoming one of our best spaces to see and hear Beck…
Juliet Stevenson: ‘The perception of women of my age is so reductive’
The actor, 65, on growing up in a loving family, recognising her partner, and getting more interesting while the parts she is offered get less interestingMy earliest memory is jumping off a little stone wall in the garden in Australia. I called it my j…
Original Observer Photography
A succession of actors, environmental activists and some live music – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in October 2021 Continue reading…
What’s New Pussycat? review – high-voltage collision of two Tom Joneses
Birmingham Repertory theatreThe 18th-century novel and Welsh crooner meet on 1960s Carnaby Street in a spirited jukebox musicalThis is a madcap mashup of a musical. Its basic premise is, bizarrely, a meeting of two Tom Joneses: the foundling and rakish…
‘People felt threatened even by a puppet refugee’: Little Amal’s epic walk through love and fear
From being pelted with stones in Greece to receiving a papal welcome in Rome, the giant girl’s migrant trek from Syria to Manchester provoked powerful responsesIn Greece, far-right protesters threw things at her as she walked through the streets, local…
L’Heure Exquise review – a Beckettian ballerina buried in pointe shoes
Royal Opera House, Linbury theatre, LondonMaurice Béjart’s adaptation of Happy Days sees Alessandra Ferri up to her hips in ballet shoes in this sparse, dreamlike workAlessandra Ferri is drowning in a mountain of pointe shoes. A huge pile of pink satin…
I can’t get a refund after my theatre show was cancelled due to Covid
I’ve emailed the theatre and the agency, Encore Tickets, but just get an automated replyLast year I used the Encore Tickets website to purchase four tickets to see The Shark is Broken at the Ambassadors theatre in London. The performance was supposed t…