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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Don’t Cry for free outside theatre as Evita scene moved offstage in West End by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get live feed of Rachel Zegler singing from balcony to passersby Jamie Lloyd’s production of Evita has been referred to as the hottest t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Relief after 10 dance centres for children across England saved from cuts by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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

‘We wanted to tell the wider story’: play highlights impact of ‘spycops’ scandal by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Exclusive: Demand the Impossible interrogates police injustice and infiltration of 1,000 political groups There’s one moment from the public inquiry into undercover police officers – kno…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Labour plans risk excluding disabled people from workforce, say arts leaders by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 in…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 taki…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Arts Council England a victim of ‘London-centric’ media coverage, CEO says by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Police called out after fight at Essex comedy gig by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Officers attended theatre in Southend after reports of altercation at end of Paul Chowdhry’s show Police were called to a comedy show in Essex after a fight broke out in the audience, whic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM
Sunday, March 30, 2025

‘Expressing your pain in artistic form is not easy’: exiled Russian theatre director builds bridges in London by Vanessa Thorpe Arts and Media Correspondent

Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow’s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM
Thursday, March 20, 2025

New play about impact of dementia on Black Britons can start ‘conversation’ by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Review clearing Manchester’s Royal Exchange of censorship criticised by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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’…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries Arts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AM
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

National Theatre to stage major work by ‘forgotten’ black British playwright by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 �…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Royal Ballet school settles with former student over body shaming claim by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care The Royal Ballet school has reached a financial settlement with a former student who said the body sh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Stage adaptation of Coraline cancelled after allegations against Neil Gaiman by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Producers say it is ‘impossible to continue’ with musical that was due to be staged at Leeds Playhouse from April A stage version of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline has been cancelled after all…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Marianne Jean-Baptiste decries lack of great roles for black women by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 gr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Margaret Hodge to lead review of regional inequality in the arts by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Rupert Goold named as next artistic director of Old Vic by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Monday, November 4, 2024

Kwame Kwei-Armah: arts education cuts pose danger to diversity in theatre by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Outgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools Kwame Kwei-Armah, the outgoing artistic director of the Young Vic, has warned th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AM
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Too much theatre memorabilia is being lost to private collectors, says David Hare by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Black actor who faced abuse over role in Romeo & Juliet calls for industry-wide action by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who played Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo, says racist abuse went on for months The actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who received a barrage of online racia…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PM
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Sadler’s Wells East unveils debut programme for east London opening by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

‘We need safe routes’: artist Es Devlin to open refugee portrait show by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Lack of arts schemes for working class will make UK theatre whiter and posher, director says by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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
Thursday, August 8, 2024

‘Sprinkled with stardust’: Stoke-on-Trent’s mythic UFO landing comes to the stage by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Deborah McAndrew’s Bright Lights Over Bentilee recreates the local legend of a UFO sighting in the fields behind a housing estate in 1967 For residents of the Bentilee housing estate in St…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PM
Monday, August 5, 2024

Susie McCabe begins Edinburgh run less than two weeks after heart attack by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PM
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

London play paused after theatregoers felt faint during abortion scene by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Mainly male audience members had to step out of preview performance of The Years after graphic scene An award-winning play premiering in London had to be stopped for 10 minutes during a prev…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Emerging playwright schemes should include over 40s, say UK theatre figures by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM
Monday, July 22, 2024

Photographer Magnus Hastings celebrates the artistry and pride of drag by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Queen, his biggest show to date, opens in Liverpool and features new commissions of the city’s drag performers As a child, Magnus Hastings loved stealing his sister’s clothes and wearing…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Gareth Southgate tried to unite rather than divide, says Dear England writer by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

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 footbal…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM