Friday, June 21, 2024
Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects
I’m appalled to read about the erosion and devaluation of the arts in state sch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMFriday, May 19, 2023
Jamie Hale, Richard Eyre and Chris Hodgkins respond to the director’s proposals
I read Nicholas Hytner’s article with interest (The arts in Britain are teetering on the brink. Here is my…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Readers on their memories of the founder director of the Hampstead theatre club
As a theatre-obsessed teenager, I used to volunteer at the wonderful Hampstead theatre club in its early days …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMFriday, September 23, 2022
Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops
In his article (Once even Jews would utter the word …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Readers on freedom of expression and hate speech, following the cancellation of the comedian’s Edinburgh fringe show
In Brian Logan’s reasonable and informed article (Who went too far: J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Drama in schools gives students the opportunity to explore a wide range of issues, says Catherine Griffin, while Sue Jackson points to the favouring of Stem subjects at the expense of humani…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThursday, April 14, 2022
Kate Boulton feels shut out of performances where there is no mask-wearing due to Covid concerns. Plus a letter from Anthony Lawton
I completely agree with the actor Liz Carr who has said …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:05AMMonday, May 31, 2021
Livestreams change the game for those who can’t access live theatre, writes Richard Lee, while John Warburton thinks all National Theatre productions should be broadcast by the BBC
Larry E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, February 21, 2021
Tam Dean Burn says he and many other members of the union for actors and other creative workers have no confidence in the leadership of their Brexit-supporting general secretary
I write in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMMonday, March 9, 2020
Lionel Burman and Robert Leach shed more light on the country’s theatrical history, while Jean Baker extols the merits of joining the Society for Theatre ResearchMark Lewinski (Letters, 6 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Geoffrey Bull laments the passing of regional theatre companies, while James Collett-White shares a success storyWhile admiring the spirited rearguard action to save buildings (Dozens of uni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMMonday, January 27, 2020
As well as being innovative, musicals are labour-intensive and often take a long time to develop fully, says Jodi MyersIt was encouraging to see the case being made for public investment in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Many theatres benefit from captioned performances so that everything on stage is made clear through subtitles, says Richard LeeThank you for challenging the myth that privately purchased hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Tributes to the film and stage actor, who died last week, from Anthony Roche and Jenifer ArmitageFreddie Jones was an actor of extraordinary gifts and I was saddened to read of his passing. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Readers share their experiences of how the lack of funding has affected creative industriesI worked at the British Film Institute when Jennie Lee was the arts minister (This philistine gover…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMThursday, November 22, 2018
A black actor queries an outpouring of support for Anthony Ekundayo Lennon, who was accused of taking a theatre role meant for ethnic minoritiesThere has been an outpouring of support for An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Actors including Michaela Ewuraba Coel voice their support for the theatre director and say he has never misled anyoneThe media narrative of a white man adopting a black identity to claim fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
As the theatre reopens this week, Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton urge ‘everyone who professes to have loved the Tricycle’ to support its new name and its artistic directorI appeared in D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMSunday, September 2, 2018
Former artistic directors and board members call for a rethinkAs both the former artistic directors and all three previous chairs of the board, as well as 12 past board members of London’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Ancient tales ‘go to the dark core of human experience’, writes Harry EyresClaire Armitstead (Ancient tales are back in fashion – for telling it like it is, 16 July) is only partly rig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Bryan Raven adds his voice to the worry over a ban on much entertainment lighting, while Stephane Arditi says the directive can be amended. Plus letters from John Lincoln and Eleanor Levin, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSunday, April 29, 2018
The president of the Association of Lighting Directors warns that a new directive could make all existing equipment obsoleteI am writing to you as the president of the Association of Lightin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Loo queue view | Boris Johnson’s non-apology | Bottle deposit schemes | Plastic-free in France | Caned for passing the 11-plusWe are sorry for the inconvenience experienced by Gill Glover …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMMonday, March 26, 2018
Royal Shakespeare Theatre toilets | Women’s Aid | Karren Brady | MnemonicsRe your article “Time to end the queue for women’s loos” (G2, 22 March), when I visited the newly refur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMThursday, March 22, 2018
Directing Graham Chapman in The Dog Beneath the Skin left a lasting impression on Duncan Noel-Paton I was intrigued to read Michael Billington’s review of the seldom-performed The Dog Bene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Readers salute the vaudevillian comedian and singer, who died on Sunday aged 90I cried when I heard about Ken Dodd’s passing (Obituary, 13 March). What a legend! What is particularly sad i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMMonday, February 26, 2018
David Edgar as Toad of Toad Hall | Time-loop tales | The Blockheads | Professorial absence | Remembering trigonometryThis is not David Edgar’s first sortie into acting (After half a centur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:22PMSunday, January 21, 2018
Jane Lapotaire had the privilege of learning sonnets under John’s guidanceJohn Barton (Obituary, 19 January) took me under his wing after my brain haemorrhage, taking me along to his maste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
In the last year the National Theatre has toured six productions to 36 towns and cities across the UK, writes its director of communications Martin PrendergastWhile there was much to admire …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27PMThursday, January 4, 2018
Philippa Coughlan wants all towns and villages to have access to live drama, while Andy Billinge praises Liverpool’s EverymanI am a huge admirer of David Hare’s work and like him made Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMThursday, December 14, 2017
Audiences can tell the difference between provocation and exploitation, writes Justin Sherin, while Patrick Kennedy suggests a braver theatre would have gone ahead with the productionThe Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM 
