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Now 70, Rachel Thompson is part of a troupe that appears regularly on stage, in the UK and beyond. The experience has been like therapy, she says

‘At the first one, we had DJs in the foyer and people were jumping in to battle with the dancers. We took out seats to make more standing room and the noise was crazy’

Dancer and artistic director of the Dance Umbrella festival known for being an innovative force in the industry

The Akram Khan Company said the death of the dancer, who shaped the art form as a programmer, was ‘an immense loss for the dance community’

The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

One of the leading postwar theatre managers and administrators who started out as a box-office clerk at the RSC

Sadler's Wells has announced its new season of work for the first half of 2024, including a UK premiere by Dimitris Papaioannou featuring hundreds of litres of water, a golden field of wheat and an octopus – of course – plus the UK premiere of the latest work by Crystal Pite…

University College London’s flexible new campus is all complex drama within, yet its forbidding exterior sits somewhat uneasily with its Olympic Park neighbours

Climate activists interrupted a performance of Romeo and Juliet at Sadler’s Wells theatre last night, demanding an end to its partnership with Barclays.

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End