Friday, February 14, 2025
Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move
Donald Trump’s announcement that he was installing himself as t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, February 3, 2025
So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres
If a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMTuesday, July 9, 2024
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 07:42AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
When 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 09:54AMWednesday, December 6, 2023
Kicked 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 12:18PMMonday, November 27, 2023
Music, 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 10:32AMMonday, June 5, 2023
In 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 04:03AMMonday, November 7, 2022
For 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 11:42PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Charlotte 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 01:54AMThursday, July 7, 2022
Defending 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 12:24PMMonday, June 20, 2022
There 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 01:48PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
As 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 04:48PMMonday, March 21, 2022
After 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 03:12AMSunday, January 16, 2022
Pandemics, 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 04:48PMSaturday, January 8, 2022
The 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 07:12AMMonday, December 6, 2021
A 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 09:03AMMonday, November 8, 2021
By 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 11:42AMThursday, June 24, 2021
From 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 02:18AMWednesday, May 12, 2021
Next 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 05:24AMMonday, March 15, 2021
Since 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 09:06AMTuesday, July 14, 2020
The 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 03:12AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Starring 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 02:12AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Her 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 08:54AMSunday, June 17, 2018
The 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 07:04PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Their 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 03:36AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Bristol 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 06:17AMFriday, February 16, 2018
Pafiliwn 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 06:44AMMonday, September 25, 2017
This 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 05:36AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Robert 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 07:12AMThursday, November 10, 2016
In 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 08:42AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Men 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 10:03AM 
