Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Creative Scotland has put 49 companies on to project-based lottery funding – unleashing a host of concerns about the principles and ideologies at play in Scottish arts subsidyI have spent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Janet Suzman among high-profile thespians highlighting lack of opportunity that reflects wider imbalance in societyJanet Suzman is an actor who, by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMFriday, June 15, 2012
Grandage will direct Jude Law, Judi Dench, David Walliams, Daniel Radcliffe and many more at the Noel Coward theatreMichael Grandage, who for a decade led the pocket-size theatre the Donmar …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMMonday, June 11, 2012
Once, a musical set in a pub audiences can drink at, cleaned up at the Tonys. Charlotte Higgins speaks to its writer Enda Walsh and director John TiffanyThe big upset of Sunday night's Tony …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
In our writers' favourite films series, Charlotte Higgins applauds a picture that jetés through the imagination's darkest recesses• Think you can post a better review of The Red Shoes? Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, November 6, 2011
Two years ago the Cultural Olympiad was floundering. Has new boss Ruth Mackenzie turned it around? She talks mass bell-ringing, Barenboim and beaches with Charlotte HigginsLast year, when Ru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMFriday, November 4, 2011
The London 2012 festival, which will form the grand finale of the Cultural Olympiad, unveils countrywide programme of arts events from a bell-ringing flashmob to Cate Blanchett's return to t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
New artistic director at Scottish Ballet, a bilingual British actor on Broadway and one ballerina's perfumed role preparationNew artistic director for Scottish BalletAshley Page abruptly res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Michael Grandage's production of Mozart's opera – his debut at the Metropolitan Opera – has had some stinking reviews in New York. What's happened to the golden boy of British theatre?Ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
A woman to lead the RSC, plus Shrigley's cookery opera, and a paratrooper targets Ed VaizeyA woman to lead the RSCThe theatre world is whirring with ideas about who should, or could, ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Months after moving into renovated theatre, Boyd and executive director Vikki Heywood to stand down by the end of 2012, a 'planned and slow departure'The duo who have carried the Royal Shake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker says Countdown video was influenced by her work but 'has no edge'An avant-garde choreographer who has accused Beyoncé of plagiarising her dance moves for her late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
This week, news of the quintessential American museum, is the Duchess of Cambridge art smart and politicians in the stallsWashington's newest museumA momentous event occurs in Washington DC …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
This week Rachel Whiteread scupts for Britain, put your name down for Olympic posters, Shechter and Gormley unite and Geoff Dyer fawnsWhiteread comes homeRachel Whiteread's most famous sculp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Playwright's biographer, Christopher Bigsby, defends work produced in later years at Edinburgh book festivalWhen dramatist Arthur Miller died in 2005, the Wall Street Journal obituary was he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:17PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
One-man fringe show invites people to feed their own cash through shredder to 'release them from the terrors of the financial system'Some shows at the Edinburgh festival are daylight robbery…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
Artist Adrian Howells explores loneliness and intimacy in new show May I Have The Pleasure?Performance artist Adrian Howells is bringing a particularly intimate piece to the Edinburgh fringe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMFriday, August 12, 2011
Junction 25's show for the Edinburgh festival fringe could not be more grown-upIn my 10 days at the Edinburgh festival fringe, there are two shows that have moved me to tears. They are David…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Edinburgh stalwart Shappi Khorsandi has endured exile, OCD, racial abuse and death threats on her family. And she just keeps pouring it into her standupIt is fitting that Iranian-born comedi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
In Zinnie Harris's new play, a girl pursues her father through wars ancient and modern. Charlotte Higgins hears why she thinks it's a turning pointZinnie Harris is standing on the landi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PMChristopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds's comedy creation steps out of the radio and on to the stage for the first timeHe is the malcontent freelance writer whose stock-in-trade hackwork inc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMIt is, in these austere times, argues playwright David GreigAfter a panel discussion between fringe playwrights David Greig, Zinnie Harris and Lynda Radley yesterday at the Traverse in Edinb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMSunday, August 7, 2011
Not many Edinburgh shows kick off with you being handed a steaming hot cuppa and a freshly baked scone smeared with homemade damson jam. Nor do you often see other members of the audience be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46PMThe eminent actor's fringe show, which deals with transgender issues, is a departure from his usual stage interpretations"High heels!" exclaimed Simon Callow, as, a little sore-footed, he sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, August 5, 2011
Participatory show inspired by Great Depression dance-offs is eagerly anticipated highlight of festival fringeMany things have been asked of audiences to the Edinburgh festival fringe. Recen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMSunday, May 15, 2011
American director promises 'a good romp and a cracking yarn' in film version of The Crooked HouseNeil LaBute has carved a career from seriously disturbing plays and films – In the Company …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, March 30, 2011
More than 200 organisations lose support on 'agonising' day of 15% cuts to the arts – but those who win, win bigLive blog - culture cutsIt is a day of radically mixed fortunes for the arts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMFriday, March 25, 2011
Sir Richard Eyre, Tony Hall and Jude Kelly warn of lasting damage likely to result from curtailed government spendingLeading figures from the arts have written to the prime minister asking h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59PMThursday, March 17, 2011
The Icelandic singer announces a new multimedia project and three-week residency while Albarn debuts a new work about an Elizabethan scientistThe great Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMTuesday, March 15, 2011
David Mitchell's new opera, Guardian hack Tom Service's new career, and the Theatre Uncut guide to making drama out of a crisisA novel approach to opera There's a school of thought that says…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PMTuesday, March 1, 2011
Alice leads the end-of-an-era productions, judging the Art Fund Museums prize, and the Forest Fringe's search for a new homeEnd of an era for blockbuster stage spectaclesWhat an incredible f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM 
