After the Tory years of underfunding, BBC-baiting and culture wars, nothing less than the soul of the nation is in the surprise new minister’s hands Of all those in Keir Starmer’s new ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWhen access to culture is downgraded, the arts are sidelined in schools and civic spaces are neglected, we all lose out Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMKicked out of art school, the former squatter, barista and sex industry worker tells us what his barriers-and-bunting work says about Britain today – and why he’s obsessed with ‘Bond-i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMMusic, theatre and art have been crushed by years of Tory cuts. They need to be nurtured again, with purpose and with pride As the Conservatives clutch at political straws, the Labour party …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMIn 1926, with the General Strike looming and the right warning of a Bolshevik revolution, the BBC found itself in a dreadful dilemma. Writer Jack Thorne on why he turned this into ‘a love …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMFor many in Ukraine, this is a war of ‘decolonisation’ – and that includes Russia’s celebrated artistic heritage At the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv recently, I watched a perfo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PMCharlotte Higgins was thrilled that her history book about Roman Britain was being adapted for the stage – until she realised it was being reimagined – and she and her partner were the r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMDefending statues, attacking ‘wokeness’, trying to destroy Channel 4 … the disgraced ex-PM’s impact on the arts has been disruptive, cynical and inept – but what comes next could b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThere are so many examples of the arts being used to unite and galvanise people. Here it is being deployed as a tool of division For most of my 25 years as a journalist, “the arts” have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMAs a teenager, the shadow culture secretary was always up for a party. Now she is expected to have a view on everything from the legacy of colonialism to the future of the licence fee. How i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMAfter almost a decade away, the world-conquering theatre rebels are back with The Burnt City, an epic take on the ultimate war story. We meet them at their cavernous new premises Punchdrunk,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMPandemics, the climate crisis and the algorithms used by tech giants feel too amorphous to squeeze into the dramatic form “What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMThe actor made a mere six movies in lockdown but it’s his own play and his return as Rooster Byron in Jerusalem that is getting him really excited Mark Rylance is dressed for rehearsals in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMA sign of a functioning society is its artists being free to create work that pushes against prevailing political tides Public funding for the arts in Britain has, since it began in the afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMBy interfering in appointments, the government is trying to shape museums and trusts in its own image When the chair of the National Maritime Museum, Charles Dunstone, wrote to the Departmen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFrom a fake forest in central London to Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard told from the orchard’s point of view, writers, directors and artists are exploring the roots of nature Let me tell you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMNext week, after 14 months of closure and despair, the arts are reawakening. But the damage caused by Covid runs deep – and recovery is by no means assured “If we had to close down again…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSince last March I have been remembering a lifetime of plays. Each one has reminded me what we’re missing Theatre is an artform of the memory. A night at the theatre is a fugitive experien…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThe government’s Covid-19 response is opening up deep divisions. Theatres and museums get help but creatives are being cut loose The pandemic has deepened many fissures in British society.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMStarring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, Mary Queen of Scots is a historical epic with oral sex, menstruation and a diverse cast – thanks to the director making a bold move from cutting-e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMHer savage send-up of the London intelligentsia was a box-office disaster. But could Doctors of Philosophy now be about to hit its prime?On Tuesday 2 October 1962, a play by Muriel Spark was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThe cast and director of a new Donmar Warehouse show tell Charlotte Higgins what a thrilling and liberating experience it has been tackling one of Shakespeare's great worksOn a table in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMTheir Julius Caesar was met with applause – and derision. As Josie Rourke and Kate Pakenham prepare to leave the Donmar, they reflect on how they changed the theatre landscape“Quite a se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMBristol Old VicThe former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company brings a mastery of mood to the Russian classicTime is advancing pitilessly on Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:17AMPafiliwn Bont, Pontrhydfendigaid, CeredigionNational Theatre Wales’s multimedia adaptation turns Ovid’s Metamorphoses into an environmental parable of cosmic scale and elemental powerThe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMThis low-interest, no-risk reboot of Radio 4’s long-running culture strand is yet another reminder of how terminally timid BBC TV always is with the artsFront Row, on Radio 4, is reliable,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMRobert Icke’s production of trilogy by Aeschylus is to open at Trafalgar Studios after causing a sensation with audiences who were gripped by its family dramaThe Oresteia – three hours a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMIn his new book, Matthew Wright analyses the remaining evidence of hundreds of Athenian texts that, packed with sex, magic and happy endings, would give a radically different impression of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMen dressed as soldiers appear in cities, towns and villages in a poignant memorial to those killed in the first world war battle Waterloo station, London: 8am. “I’m here, under the big …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMIn the years to come, artists and intellectuals will venture across the rift to interpret the two halves of our divided kingdom to one other“We had a headache,” wrote Philip Pullman on T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMHer champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain’s greatest living stage director – but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, …
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