Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and 'not at all' to Shakespeare
The number of plays attributed to the 16th-century playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes
The Tony award-winning theatre director John Doyle has warned that tri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
Exclusive: using immersive descriptive audio, performance explores how blindness can redefine experience of dance
The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training
Young actors who trained at drama school during the pandemic are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse
The discovery of a previously unknown portrait miniature by one of Elizab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2025
Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together
A Guardian report on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe being literary …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
It has long been assumed that William Shakespeare's marriage to Anne …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
Equity union says filming scenes at home amounts to unpaid labour and reinforces elitism
Actors seeking their next role are now routinely asked to "self-tape" their auditions, a practice tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Exclusive: About 350 props, awards and personal items will be auctioned by his estate and his widow
The prosthetic nose that Laurence Olivier wore when portraying Richard III in his classic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work
Scholars have long suggested that Christopher Marlowe had a collaborator f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2024
Gloomy segmented head of famed playwright fails to convey his wit and brilliance, says Merlin Holland
A huge sculpture of Oscar Wilde's head lying on its side, his face sliced into segments,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2024
Exclusive: Ken Ludwig gives Shakespeare Birthplace Trust largest private donation in its 177-year history
The charity that cares for historic Shakespeare sites in Stratford-upon-Avon has rec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
Exclusive: lecturer finds 'striking similarities' between lines in Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and later Shakespeare works
He was an actor, as well as the greatest dramatist of all time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2024
Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods
"O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2024
Exclusive: John Shakespeare's muckhill fine in 1552 was a waste disposal toll rather than a punishment, researcher says
The earliest record of William Shakespeare's father in Stratford-upon-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2023
A newly unearthed essay reveals the ambitious vision of the influential choreographer, teacher and innovator
He was one of the 20th century's foremost pioneers of modern dance, bringing tog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2023
Powerful dramas that speak to today's audiences, retrieved after British Library discovery, will be performed in London next month
It was a chance discovery in the British Library that has l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2023
Exclusive: To the Deserving Author, found in the playbook of Jonson's Sejanus: His Fall, is signed by 'Cygnus'
An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 18, 2023
The acclaimed actor " who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Olivier Awards " says the demise of repertory theatre is putting paid to the vocal prowess
The demise of r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2023
Crammed with minuscule writing, manuscript is seen as earliest 'proper reader's response' to first folio
In 2017, an expert on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow was excited by a minuscule 17th-cen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2022
Rising costs have led to staff redundancies and curtailed opening hours as nine out of 10 sites fear they could close permanently
Theatres, museums, castles and other heritage sites are mak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2022
Exclusive: Musical and children's play are among vast archive explored in upcoming film about comedic genius
A musical and a children's play written by Spike Milligan are among unmade script…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2022
The A Clockwork Orange author's translation " complete with recording " hailed as significant literary discovery
Beyond his satirical novel A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess's masterpieces…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2022
Cult LA theatre show Cages uses holographic avatars that blend seamlessly with real actors
Avatars of human beings that are indistinguishable from the real thing have been created for a new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2022
Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia offers rosemary to boost memory, while in A Midsummer Night's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2022
Rufus Norris says DCMS levelling-up scheme will have opposite effect to that intended
The director of the National Theatre in London is warning that the government's levelling-up agenda will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2022
Playwright planned scenes on same-sex relationship at a time when it was illegal and British theatres faced strict censorship
Noël Coward worked on two plays that openly featured same-sex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 27, 2022
Former Royal Ballet star speaks out ahead of film update of Coppelia, which focuses on the pressure to change looks in pursuit of happiness
A ballet that conveys a powerful message to young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 21, 2022
Exclusive: Document reveals playwright's attention to detail while US book recalls his precision on pauses
Harold Pinter was a perfectionist when it came to the theatre, even down to how an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 20, 2022
The dance impresario 'cruelly' sabotaged the careers of others in a bid to keep all the glory to himself, according to a new biography
He was the Russian genius who founded the celebrated Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 24, 2021
Playwright, who was gravely ill with the virus, says it's 'nonsense' that viewers don't want a pandemic drama
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