Scene-stealer: Tristram Kenton's best stage shots of 2019 – in pictures
From ballet to panto via reanimated corpses, here are some of our arts photographer’s finest photos of the past 12 months
by Tristram Kenton
Jacopo Tissi as The Prince in Swan Lake by The Bolshoi Ballet at Royal Opera House.
Lenny Henry and Martina Laird in King Hedley II at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Rosie Aldridge in the world premiere of The Monstrous Child at Linbury Theatre.
A scene from En by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Sadler’s Wells.
Elsa Dreisig in Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House.
Anthony Roth Costanzo Akhnaten by Philip Glass at the London Coliseum.
Natalia Osipova in Medusa by the Royal Ballet.
Sarah Amankwah as Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Sarah Tynan in The Merry Widow at the London Coliseum.
A scene from Les Antliaclastes: Waltz of the Homelettes, part of London international mime festival, at Barbican.
John Simm and Dervla Kirwan in Macbeth at Chichester festival theatre.
Bart Slegers, Halina Reijn and Ramsey Nasr in The Fountainhead at the Lowry, Manchester.
Billy Postlethwaite and Emma McDonaldin Macbeth at the Watermill theatre.
A scene from The Rite of Spring and Gianni Schicchi, the double bill by Opera North at the Grand Theatre, Leeds.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
Amy Forrest and CJ Beckford in Small Island at National Theatre.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
A scene from Shape of Sound by Northern Ballet at Linbury Theatre, ROH.
Samuel Buttery in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Barbican.
A scene from Dog Without Feathers at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre.
A scene from Asphodel Meadows by Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House.
Nadia Nadarajah in Midnight Movie at Royal Court.
A scene from Frankenstein at Southwark Playhouse.
Angus Yellowlees and Josh Williams in Touching the Void at Duke of Yorks.
Maxine Peake in The Nico Project at Stoller Hall.
Beatriz Stix-Brunell, centre, in Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at Barbican.
Stefan Adegbola and Tom Mothersdale in Richard lll at Bristol Old Vic.
Kat B, Clive Rowe and Tarinn Callender in Dick Whittington And His Cat at Hackney Empire.