Friday, December 12, 2025
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMSaturday, December 6, 2025
James Graham’s play Punch touches on gang culture, restorative justice and masculinity in crisis, and for the playwright the true story was a privilege to tell
When thousands of schoolchil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMFriday, December 5, 2025
With Dog Man making his London theatre debut next summer, theatre makers explain how to make a successful jump from page to stage
From Paddington and the BFG to The Gruffalo’s Child, My Ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMProject 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 Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMThursday, December 4, 2025
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 workfo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMFriday, November 28, 2025
The one-act play Oh, Mary! – ‘the stupidest, funniest thing possible’ – to open after blockbuster run in New York
What if, in the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMSaturday, November 22, 2025
Star turns are boosting ticket sales this season, including Islington show featuring MP’s Wizard of Oz and Olivier winner’s Toto
We’re a third of the way through the fabulously camp pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
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 r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMFriday, September 26, 2025
Rowdy audience members have disrupted performances with heckling, violence and even copulation in the stalls
“Speak clearly and don’t bump into the furniture” – so goes Noël Coward�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMFriday, September 19, 2025
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 n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, September 18, 2025
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 enc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return
Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMFriday, June 20, 2025
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 03:06AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
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 12:54PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
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 06:24AMThursday, June 5, 2025
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 10:36AMExclusive: 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 04:06AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme
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More than 2,500 figures from the arts in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
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 05:24PMWednesday, May 21, 2025
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 04:24AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
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 03:06AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
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 07:48AMSunday, March 30, 2025
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 07:36AMThursday, March 20, 2025
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 10:12AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
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 07:42PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
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 03:32AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
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 02:12AMThursday, January 30, 2025
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 12:24PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
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 03:36PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
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 05:48AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
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 
