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Lumberjack acrobats Timber! by Cirque Alfonse
Look out for flying axes and death-defying leaps with saws as Québec’s Cirque Alfonse bring their acrobatics to London’s Southbank Centre for a Christmas run
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Cinematographer Eben Bolter sheds light on the look and feel of the six works in our Off the Page project, where journalism met theatre
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Go backstage at Hackney Empire’s annual pantomime, where Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are waiting in the wings to give the audience goose bumps
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Kathak meets ballet in this duet first performed at Sadler’s Wells in 2006 and now back for its final run of performances before Guillem’s retirement
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Other lives: Trained ballerina, and fluent German-speaker who worked for Bletchley Park
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St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet made its US debut with a two-week residency at the David H Koch theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City
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The rape allegations against Cosby didn’t stick until the standup Hannibal Buress made the accusation on stage. Sometimes comedians are able to say what others can’t, writes Brian Logan
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Cinematographer Eben Bolter sheds light on the look and feel of the six works in our Off the Page project, where journalism met theatre
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Go backstage at Hackney Empire’s annual pantomime, where Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are waiting in the wings to give the audience goose bumps
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The culture team talks summer music festivals, whether fashion is art and if Australians are intellectuals. Plus we nominate our top December must-dos that don't involve tinsel
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As Nicole Scherzinger prepares to play Grizabella, can you tell which of these lyrics are sung in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End musical and which are sung by the Pussycat Dolls?
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Many of Shakespeare's lines are used in daily life – but do you know which plays feature these popular expressions?
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Laurence Olivier had plenty of wise words for aspiring performers. Mind you, so does the moderate Twitter sensation @Tips4Actors. Can you tell whose lines are whose?
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These are the locations for the opening scenes in 10 of the Bard's plays. Match the setting to the play
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Taking its name from the misused words of Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals, a malapropism (AKA a dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of one with a similar sound. Can you guess the right wrong words?
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Shakespeare wrote some of the most beautiful sonnets in history but he was also the prince of putdowns. How well do you know the Bard's barbs?
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Do you know your Benedick from your Beatrice? Your Romeo from your Juliet? Match the quote to the character
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Can you tell which of these lines belong to Blanche Dubois and which are spoken by agent Dana Scully?
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Shakespeare saved some fine lines for those characters drawing their last breath. Can you identify who speaks these words in their exit speeches?
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Here are 10 striking stage directions – can you identify the plays they're taken from?
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Can you guess which of these two festival newbies the reviewers are writing about?
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Here are 10 one-liners on the subject of education. Do you know which comedian is responsible for each of them?
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Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of television. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of conflict. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Were you paying attention before the curtain fell? See if you recognise these closing lines of 10 great plays
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Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of money. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Do you know your Lear from your Leontes? Your Macbeth from your Mercutio? Match these lines to the right characters
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As Lindsay Lohan prepares to make her West End debut in Speed-the-Plow, can you guess if these lines come from Mean Girls or David Mamet's plays?
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Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of sex. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Here are 10 one-liners on the subject of kids. Do you know which standup is responsible for each of them?
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Go backstage at Hackney Empire’s annual pantomime, where Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are waiting in the wings to give the audience goose bumps
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Take a sneak peek at the star's blistering performance as John Proctor in one of the year's most acclaimed theatre productions – now broadcast in cinemas
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The Coriolanus star recalls being bewitched by the 'toil and trouble' of Macbeth as a 10-year-old schoolboy
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Kathak meets ballet in this duet first performed at Sadler’s Wells in 2006 and now back for its final run of performances before Guillem’s retirement
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St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet made its US debut with a two-week residency at the David H Koch theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City
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The cabaret show La Soirée is back for a 10th season in London. Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton went behind the scenes with some of the performers
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Before becoming Wolverine and Jean Valjean, Hugh Jackman started out as a stage actor. As he returns to Broadway in Jez Butterworth’s The River, revisit his theatrical career
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The centrepiece of the Royal Ballet’s new triple bill is The Age of Anxiety, a world premiere choreographed by Liam Scarlett and inspired by Auden. All photographs by Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
It took a comedian to call Bill Cosby to account