No need for hard stares as Paddington: The Musical triumphs at Olivier awards
West End spectacular about beloved bear wins seven prizes, while Rachel Zegler, Rosamund Pike and Paapa Essiedu all recognised
Brian Rotman obituary
Other lives: Mathematician, cultural theorist and playwright who taught in British and American universities
‘It’s got real sass!’ Irvine Welsh chooses new life for Trainspotting as a stage musical
Production based on 1993 novel opens at Theatre Royal Haymarket in London in July, with original songs co-written by the author
Under Milk Wood review – dark fairytales swirl around Dylan Thomas’s evergreen village
Director Kate Wasserberg emphasises the fantasy and supernatural elements of the poet’s ‘play for voices’ in an entertaining and inclusive production
Small Island review – Windrush epic speaks to our era with startling clarity
Featuring stellar performances across the cast, Matthew Xia’s production breathes new life into Andrea Levy’s sprawling family saga
Gatz review – the Great Gatsby performed in eight and a half hours of attentive, immersive joy
F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel – read aloud in full, on a stage set as a drab office – finds new life in this utterly transfixing show
Jane Lapotaire obituary
Stage and screen actor hailed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for her TV role as Marie Curie
Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir
From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review – a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
Lady Gaga and David Gest are among those who get ferocious dressings-down in this brutally candid memoir
The play that changed my life: ‘There were cheers, screams and gasps at our story – we couldn’t believe it!’
Dramatising Onjali Q Raúf’s refugee tale The Boy at the Back of the Class brought cheers and boos from a young audience – showing they can handle the truth
The Manningtree Witches review – Ava Pickett’s gripping follow-up to Tudor hit 1536
The targets of the infamous 17th-century ‘witchfinder general’ narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore’s novel
Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter
The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family
Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama
Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life
Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition
Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare
‘I paid people with pints and chips’: Georgina Duncan on the prize-winning play she tapped out on her phone
Revisiting the Troubles in 1990s Belfast, Sapling is the result of intensive research in the city. And winning the Women’s prize, says Duncan, ‘is the maddest thing that’s ever happened to me’