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<p>Diminishing returns: Paddington Bear in ‘Paddington in Peru’</p>

Interview

How Paddington the Musical put the world’s favourite bear on stage

As Peru’s most famous ex-pat gets given a theatrical makeover, Helen Coffey sits down with scriptwriter Jessica Swale and McFly frontman and musical maestro Tom Fletcher to get the inside scoop on the five-year journey that led to Paddington’s West End debut

<p>Susan Sarandon makes her belated London stage debut in Tracy Letts’s play </p>

Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough shine in Mary Page Marlowe

<p>To be or not to be, asks actor Hiran Abeysekera</p>

Hamlet gets the last laugh in the National Theatre’s anarchic new take

in focus

The Rite of Spring: The return of the great ballet that caused a riot

<p>James McArdle: ‘I remember not being able to sleep towards the end of Macbeth’</p>

Interview

James McArdle: ‘Listen, there’s ego in theatre too’

<p>Jimin Kim & Nicholas Vavrecka in ‘Consolations & Liebestraum’</p>

London City Ballet’s Momentum is bright, confident and smartly chosen

<p>Caoimhe Coburn Gray and Romel Belcher in ‘Deaf Republic’</p>

Deaf Republic is an enthralling mix of puppetry, circus, and BSL

<p>Bluemel and Gatwa as rivals-slash-lovers in ‘Born With Teeth’</p>

Ncuti Gatwa peacocks and flirts his way through Born With Teeth

<p>Edinburgh Fringe 2025 featured a range of performances engaging with the nature of the festival itself</p>

In Focus

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 defied storms to deliver something essential

<p>At this year’s Fringe, there’s an outbreak of shows that refuse to serve up the neatly packed parcel of trauma that the Fringe seems to demand</p>

State of the Arts

After Baby Reindeer, Fringe artists are refusing to sell their trauma

<p>Andy Nyman: ‘The taboo of The Producers is, I think, more essential, more shocking – and funnier – than it’s felt for years’</p>

Interview

Andy Nyman: ‘The Producers doesn’t care about getting cancelled’

Interviews

interview

Surreal and silly, Julio Torres pulls off the impossible in Hollywood

<p>Sean Hayes on his Tony-winning turn: ‘Nobody would have ever cast me in this role’</p>

Interview

Sean Hayes: ‘I love Will & Grace but I was thinking how do I get out?’

<p>‘If I were still invested in every part I ever played in my life, I’d probably be in a straitjacket’</p>

the saturday interview

Michael Shannon: ‘I’ve had a career that’s all over the shop’

<p>John Cameron Mitchell: ‘I knew closeted actors who were horrified that I was committing career suicide’</p>

interview

John Cameron Mitchell: ‘Maybe Maga kids are having sex – I doubt it’

<p>Alan Menken: ‘I’ve been in therapy for 50 years’</p>

Disney’s Alan Menken: ‘It was terrifying recording The Little Mermaid’

<p>Like mother, like daughter: Bessie Carter has followed in her parents’ footsteps to forge her own career in acting</p>

Interview

Imelda Staunton: ‘Helen Mirren texted me when the Queen died’

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