Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings• Complete list of nominations James Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMThe coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows ‘Behind every great man stands a great woman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMACE had been under pressure to revise guidance in January which focused on ‘reputational risk’ Arts Council England (ACE) has released new guidance confirming it will not penalise organi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMExclusive: Jeremy O Harris says Game of Thrones star will not ‘make it the Jon Snow Experience’ The writer of Slave Play, the controversial Broadway production about race and sexuality t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMNapalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight also among city’s cultural figures warning over ‘horrifying’ move Birmingham’s cultural figures from Carl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMTeam behind Little Amal puppet hope to create ‘visceral engagement’ with issues caused by climate emergency The production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMThe literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMHighly anticipated new play is a post-#MeToo story about trials women endure to realise their dreams He has built a reputation as one of Britain’s most revered modern playwrights, but Jez …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMExclusive: Director says he is interested to see response of new audiences at a time of growing instability The global theatrical phenomenon War Horse is returning to British stages for the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMHit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY! The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMMichelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role The artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe has pushed on with playing Richar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMTheatre dedicated to new writing says it is ‘reassessing staff teams’ after sharp rise in production costs The Royal Court is considering making redundancies as part of a restructuring p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSarah Grochala’s Intelligence follows Lovelace’s attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist in 1840s London A play about the reincarnation of the Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMRoyal Shakespeare Company’s new artistic directors team up with artists from around the world to appeal to wider audience The Royal Shakespeare Company is attempting to attract new audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMBefore 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 04:32PMWindsor and Maidenhead scraps cultural budget in wake of similar moves in Suffolk, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham The chill blast of damaging cuts to provincial arts venues has returned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMLondon venue’s online collection of performances dating back to 1956 will be free to use for writers, directors and the public The Royal Court has launched a free digital archive of every…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMActor who played Prince Charles in The Crown said non-London crowds ‘have a real hunger for a good night at the theatre’ The actor Dominic West has extolled the virtues of regional theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMApril De Angelis comedy, to be premiered in Hampstead, explores life of actor at a time when married women were ‘legally dead’ She was known as the Queen of Drury Lane and the first trul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMVenues 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 US author of Sex and the City will appear on stage in London in early 2024 before going on a UK-wide tour Candace Bushnell, the real-life Carrie Bradshaw, is bringing her one-woman show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PMOak floorboards discovered at St George’s Guildhall, King’s Lynn, believed to be only surviving stage from Shakespeare’s time Boards trodden by the Bard have been discovered under laye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMWhile many criticise content guidance in art and literature, others argue they help people make informed choices When a London theatre decided to warn potential audiences about strong langua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMMany women working in industry say allegations only scratch the surface of its culture of misogyny “When I was 18 I had an incident with a powerful male comedian in his 30s,” says Lucy (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMImposter 22 will run for three weeks at renowned Sloane Square theatre and comes after series of workshops A play performed by a professional cast of learning disabled and autistic actors is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMThe styles in “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” in previews on Broadway, require a wig designer, several braiders, some synthetic hair and lots of patience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMThe 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 09:43AMActor accuses Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incident The actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central Scho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PMYounger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there’s still plenty to work with “If I see somebody become famous, and they’ve got trem…
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