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 02:36PMHighly 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 10:02AMExclusive: 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 01:06AMHit 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 01:24PMMichelle 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 10:36AMTheatre 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 12:12PMSarah 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 03:24PMRoyal 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 09:42AMLondon 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 01:42AMActor 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 10:36AMApril 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 08:18PMThe 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 01:55PMOak 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 05:25AMWhile many criticise content guidance in art and literature, others argue they help people make informed choices When a London theatre decided to warn potential audiences about strong langua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMMany women working in industry say allegations only scratch the surface of its culture of misogyny “When I was 18 I had an incident with a powerful male comedian in his 30s,” says Lucy (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMImposter 22 will run for three weeks at renowned Sloane Square theatre and comes after series of workshops A play performed by a professional cast of learning disabled and autistic actors is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMActor accuses Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incident The actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central Scho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PMYounger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there’s still plenty to work with “If I see somebody become famous, and they’ve got trem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMActor says high prices are strangling next generation of theatregoers, as cheapest seats rise 13% in a year The price of West End theatre tickets can be ludicrous and risks strangling the ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMSucession star Brian Cox tells gathered members of Equity union ‘we are at thin end of horrible wedge’ Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Naomie Harris and Simon Pegg were among the British A-l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMByrne, who is also an award-winning playwright, said he would ‘shape a rejuvenating culture’ at one of London’s most prestigious theatres David Byrne, an award-winning playwright and d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AMEdwin Flay brings his one-man drama, in which he plays the GP and serial killer, to the Edinburgh fringe He was a big man with a bushy beard and a bowl of sweets on his desk for good boys an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMRed Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig will open during Hanukah in December at culture centre JW3 The corny gags, slapstick, cartoon baddies and singalongs beloved of traditional pantomime will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AM‘Epic and deeply personal’ Nye by Tim Price will star Michael Sheen and be directed by Rufus Norris A play charting the life of Nye Bevan and his battle to create the NHS is among 12 ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMDirector says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels Rufus Norris is to step down as director of the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFormer Coronation Street actor calls for more support, as survey finds lack of safety net for self-employed creatives More financial support should be available to artists in the periods whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMNew artistic director Nancy Medina picks works about the power of belonging such as a queer coming-of-age story from Tarell Alvin McCraney and a musical version of David Nicholls’ Starter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMWriter and director Ben Elton tells story of woman who was ‘most famous teenager in the world’ in the 1960s She was a teenager from Neasden when a photograph of her newly cropped hair ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMuseum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch to open in 2024 on site of playhouse that staged earliest performances A London museum installation that uses the latest AI technology will allow theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMProduction is at centre of collaboration with west London community affected by 2017 disaster The National Theatre is to stage a verbatim play based on accounts by survivors and those bereav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMEvents planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published Four hundred years ago, a small band of William Shakespeare�…
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