Nadia Fall calls for bold thinking as she announces new shows including anti-Trump version of Thelma & Louise Theatres facing financial difficulty can only prosper by "programming their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Margaret Hodge, who led report into arts funder, tells DCMS committee that grant recipients have lost confidence in the body Arts Council England requires a "radical" overhaul so it can to r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Lineup for 2026 includes a Molière adaptation and a mash-up of Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman Cate Blanchett, Sandra Oh and Letitia Wright will form part of the National Theatre's starry, fem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AM[SHARE]London site's theatre, music venue and galleries to close in June 2028, in first stage of upgrades before 50th anniversary The Barbican will close its doors for 12 months from June 2028 as i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Project will make the famously confusing London landmark easier to navigate and more accessible "Everything leaks," says Philippa Simpson, the director of buildings and renewal at the Barbic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AM[SHARE]Arts institution will also merge costume departments to be 'match fit' after funding cuts and soaring material costs The Royal Shakespeare Company has defended plans to reduce its workforce …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PM[SHARE]Actor says 'people aren't aware of the facts' and the realities for people living in migrant hotels A compelling drama about refugees living in Britain could be one way to defuse the rising …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Danny Boyle will oversee youth culture event in May to mark 75th anniversary of postwar 'burst of colour' Danny Boyle will turn the Southbank Centre into a celebration of youth culture next …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Arts institution seeks to make 'urgent' savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m More than half of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staff are being encou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community A groundbreaking Trinidadian-British playwright who paved the way for modern Bla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Campaigners including Arlene Phillips and Matthew Bourne welcome funding for National Dance CATs they say keeps art form from being preserve of elite Campaigners from the world of dance incl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel The playwright Caryl Churchill has pulled out of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme UK politics live " latest updates More than 2,500 figures from the arts incl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of 'a 21st-century RSC' Adrian Lester transforming into Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfred Enoch taking o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End Russia's war in Ukraine has reignited "cold war strategies", according to the son…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Darren Henley says regional arts leaders do not have same newspaper coverage as those in the capital The chief executive of Arts Council England has launched an impassioned defence of the or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Lynette Linton, outgoing creative director of Bush Theatre, hopes production will lead to people getting more support Part of the creative team behind a new play about the impact of dementia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play's songs A review into the cancellation of a production of A Midsummer Night's Drea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Alterations, by Michael Abbensetts, follows a Guyanese tailor as he tries to establish himself on Carnaby Street The National Theatre's decision to stage a work by a "pioneering" and "forgot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Oscar-nominated actor says she has had to compromise because of dearth of complex roles in UK and Hollywood Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said there is still "a dearth of grea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Anti-corruption champion to examine Arts Council England projects and lack of facilities in some areas of country Margaret Hodge will oversee a review into regional inequality in the arts af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Goold says he is seeking new challenge after more than decade in charge at the Almeida theatre Rupert Goold is leaving the Almeida theatre after more than a decade in charge to take over at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]As hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding The vital memorabilia and personal effects of our greatest p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Inaugural season to include adaptation of James Baldwin novel and an immersive rave An immersive rave, voguing and an adaptation of James Baldwin's novel Giovanni's Room are all part of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Fifty drawings of displaced people will be exhibited in a London church, in collaboration with UN refugee agency Providing safe routes for asylum seekers should be the focus of the UK govern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Tinuke Craig says current black British theatre talent was developed when schemes to improve access were common The lack of investment in arts schemes aimed at working-class children will cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PM[SHARE]Glaswegian, 44, says angioplasty was 'shot across the bows' and she will now swap Red Bull for hummus A car breaking down when you're hours away from an important Edinburgh fringe warm-up gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PM[SHARE]Ageism standing in way of older writers breaking into the industry, playwrights claim The phrase "emerging playwright" should not be restricted to those under the age of 40, leading UK theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Manager 'was everything we didn't have in our politics', insists James Graham as he rewrites ending of play The playwright James Graham has paid tribute to the outgoing England football mana…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Children's experiences form basis of play that weaves 150 years of care system history into narrative When theatre-makers Matt Woodhead and Helen Monks gathered with a small group of childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AM[SHARE]As Benedict Lombe's play Shifters transfers to West End, she is only third black British woman to have play staged there Theatre audiences are "thirsty" for romance stories told from a black…
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