Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Exclusive: Audience had ‘vitriolic reaction’ to European tone of musical, forced to close early
Rufus Wainwright has defended his musical Opening Night, which was forced to close early a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Speaking at launch for West End adaptation, Cleese complains about literal-minded viewers ‘not playing with a full deck’
John Cleese said that he decided to cut the N-word from a scene i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMDavid Byrne calls for urgent state support for young playwrights, particularly those from minority or working-class backgrounds
David Byrne, the artistic director of the Royal Court theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Writer of Make Good: the Post Office Scandal says postal workers’ interviews helped describe ‘the power of the state coming down on you’
The creators of a new musical about the Post Of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequality
Gemma Arterton, Joanna Scanlan and Stella Kanu are some of the figures backing an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha – and why shouting at his kids is a great way to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
It is a play renowned for its extreme physical violence, with scenes featuring execution, rape an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
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 10:32AMSunday, March 10, 2024
The 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 06:24AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
ACE 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 01:42PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Exclusive: 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 12:24AMSaturday, February 24, 2024
Napalm 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 04:12PMThursday, February 22, 2024
Team 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 02:36PMSunday, February 11, 2024
The 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 05:32PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Highly 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 10:02AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Exclusive: 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 01:06AMSunday, February 4, 2024
Hit 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 01:24PMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Michelle 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 10:36AMFriday, January 26, 2024
Theatre 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 12:12PMFriday, January 19, 2024
Sarah 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 03:24PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Royal 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 09:42AMMonday, January 15, 2024
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 08:48AMSunday, January 14, 2024
Theatreland 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 04:32PMSunday, January 7, 2024
Windsor 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 04:18PMMonday, November 27, 2023
London 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 01:42AMThursday, November 23, 2023
Actor 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 10:36AMWednesday, November 22, 2023
April 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 08:18PMSunday, October 29, 2023
Venues 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 09:13AMFriday, October 27, 2023
The 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 01:55PMThursday, October 5, 2023
Oak 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 05:25AM 
