Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors’ Benevolent Fund The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThe Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds • Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi Britain’s cast of leading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMTheatreland is taking a gamble on a wave of quirky little shows to challenge the big but tired box office beasts A fresh kind of musical theatre show, set apart by having started life on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMVenues across the UK closed over building safety fears sprinkle a little magic to keep their shows on the road Every good pantomime needs a menacing villain to threaten all the fun, and this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMThe 1970s star blazed the way for mass-audience satire in Britain. But is there an appetite for it now? As the entertainment world mourns the death at 82 of Britain’s most popular televis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMString of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens Running a theatre has become a seriously unappealing job, according to many of those working at Brita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMThe Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage Female readers are the acknowledged force behind the market in publishe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMThe 1982 play stills pulls in crowds from Broadway to Helsinki, and is now returning to the West End for a fifth time. ‘I just can’t understand it,’ says its creator The arrival of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMLeading dancers and directors say they find the classic costume both physically and artistically restrictive The ballerina’s tutu remains a traditional object of desire for many young girl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMAcclaimed productions will be available to watch on Guardian site as coronavirus outbreak continues Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Guardian website is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMCatherine Tate, Mark Gatiss and Nina Sosanya star in James Graham and Josie Rourke’s theatrical experiment The play The Vote, a theatrical experiment broadcast live on television on electi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMBroad stage theatre comedy full of plot twists, puns and frantic action is finding a new audienceThe stage is set like a hotel bedroom where a scantily clad woman is hiding inside a wardrobe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMWomen claim staff did not ‘like the T-shirts we are wearing’ but NT says the action was ‘a result of a series of disturbances’ The National Theatre has become embroiled in a bitter w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMJamael Westman explains how his role in the West End show has affected his politics as well as his careerThe swift rise to fame of Jamael Westman, leading man in the London cast of the hit m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMBristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m faceliftOne of the oldest theatres in Europe, Bristol Old Vic, is finally to have a proper fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMNew Zealander’s show about sex and modern social mores scoops top comedy gongThe New Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.Her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMPoorer drama students face an uphill struggle, with funding cuts and rising fees. But British theatre may be the loser unless more actors from a range of backgrounds take centre stageWhen Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMDramatists behind a C4 film and two plays about the referendum must contend with the way facts and key players in this divisive issue are still shiftingIt is the divisive issue that will com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMStory of Scottish meteorologist James Stagg’s crucial intervention in Operation Overlord comes to the West End in tense drama PressureA tense historical drama celebrating the D-day interve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMDirector of theatre near fire that killed 71 people picks play about gerrymandering in 1980s as debut productionA play about a notorious social housing scandal is to be staged in a new theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMActors reproduce lost world of ‘Indian noir’ in former art deco department store, which will afterwards become part of the Dishoom restaurant chainAmid clouds of cigarette smoke and the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMRival arts organisations cry foul at award of £2m in Arts Council funding to her next theatrical venture, Wise ChildrenThe beleaguered stage director Emma Rice, who is to step down from run…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMA singalong show about the collapse of Kids Company may seem unpromising, but productions like it are already proving big hits with audiencesFor many theatregoers a big night out on the town…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMCabaret star hopes new show based on Paulo Coehlo’s work will inspire UK fansUte Lemper, the queen of dark and subversive cabaret, is known for her interpretation of the bleak songs of Kur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMComing-of-age novel I Capture the Castle is adapted for the stageOne of Britain’s most popular romantic novels, Dodie Smith’s coming-of-age classic I Capture the Castle, beloved of write…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMWorks of author and playwright once dismissed as voice of bygone era are now being brought to new audiences”Dated” and “unfashionably sedate”: some of the judgments on JB Priestley�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMFrom Tristan and Isolde to Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers are taking to the London stage. What makes the drama of thwarted desire so compelling?Whatever the temperature outside, the W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMHer turn in new play Peoples, Places, Things is what the critics call a tour de force: the kind remembered long after the final curtainEvery two or three theatrical seasons a performance com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39PMThe makeshift stage on which A-list stars entertained migrants in Calais is now to be rebuilt in two locations, vow the two young British playwrights behind the schemeThe refugee theatre in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26PMResearch reveals 73% of performers in British theatre and film are from middle-classA major academic study released to the Observer this weekend reveals the extent to which actors from relat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44PMBristol Old Vic show is latest theatrical production to use a gender swap to tackle stereotypesIt is the classic fairytale that has fired the imaginations of generations of young girls. But …
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