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Chris Wiegand

Chris Wiegand

Stage Editor at The Guardian - Arts & Culture

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  • Entertainment
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Recent Articles

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Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards
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Pontypool review – scattershot horror with a shock jock but few fri...

The 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric
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The best theatre to stream this month: Starlight Express, Nye, Beat...

A cast recording for the souped-up train musical is released, Michael Sheen plays the NHS hero at the National and David Hare delivers his Covid memoir
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Barcelona review – Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte share a night of t...

The stars of Emily in Paris and Money Heist team up for a curiously flat drama mixing suspense, comedy and politics
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‘Every fear you’re supposed to have as a New Yorker’: Lin-Manuel Mi...

‘Every fear you’re supposed to have as a New Yorker’: Lin-Manuel Miranda on rebooting cult movie The Warriors
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Saint Maud review – desire, despair and ‘godgasms’ as Rose Glass’s ...

Brogan Gilbert gives an extraordinary performance as the troubled nurse caring for a terminally ill dancer in a compelling adaptation of the 2019 horror film
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The Warriors review – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis come out to...

This concept album based on Walter Hill’s 1979 film features megastar rappers, Hamilton alumni and styles from metalcore to salsa – it is pulled off with breathtaking brio
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Toto Kerblammo! review – Tim Crouch offers up doggy delight and hum...

Toto Kerblammo! review – Tim Crouch offers up doggy delight and human heartache
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Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Becke...

The Slow Horses star will perform the monologue Krapp’s Last Tape at York Theatre Royal in the spring
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Filumena review – Felicity Kendal and Matthew Kelly go toe to toe i...

Eduardo de Filippo’s ode to the family is revived with a stylish design but does not reach enough comical or emotional peaks
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‘I was always the sexy tootsie’: Kelly Bishop on Broadway hits, Gil...

She was a Broadway hoofer then she helped inspire – and found fame in – A Chorus Line. As she releases her memoir, the great ‘raconteuse’ recalls her Dirty Dancing fears – and the sharp suits and sharper barbs of Emily Gilmore
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The Little Prince review – twinkling spin on Saint-Exupéry’s flight...

Performance poet Toby Thompson has a breezy rapport with the young audience as he retells the bittersweet novella with modern trimmings
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The best theatre to stream this month: James Earl Jones drives Miss...

The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger’s Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party
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Hamlet Hail to the Thief: Thom Yorke revisits Radiohead album for S...

Stage production in Manchester will orchestrate the band’s 2003 recording to ‘chime with the underlying grief and paranoia’ of the tragedy
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Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Rebecca Frecknall will direct Normal People actor in Tennessee Williams classic at Almeida theatre in London, opening in December
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The Truth About Harry Beck review – the tortuous journey behind the...

This fond bio-drama charts a draughtsman’s labour of love to create a comprehensible London Underground diagram
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Dear Evan Hansen review – affecting account of teen torment embarks...

The musical about a boy who fakes a friendship with a dead student is back, capturing the disconnect between the adult world and childhood reality
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Brie Larson to make her West End debut in revenge tragedy Elektra

Oscar-winning actor will perform the lead role in Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophocles’ play in London and Brighton next year
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From Salt-N-Pepa to Romeo and Juliet: how rap sparked Sam White’s p...

The US director draws upon a fight at her Detroit school, her love of opera and hiphop, and her time as a standup to deliver a fleet-footed version of the star-crossed lovers’ tragedy
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Dressed for success: Malmö launches Roxette jukebox musical Joyride...

Based on a Jane Fallon novel and directed by Guy Unsworth, a new show is powered by the Swedish pop duo’s songs. Co-founder Per Gessle reflects on Roxette’s arrival in the opera house
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‘Like a gig with your favourite 90s artists’: KT Tunstall composes ...

Adaptation of Amy Heckerling’s classic 1995 comedy will open in London in February with a new score by the Scottish musician inspired by its soundtrack