Authors say excessive dominance is unhealthy and recommends reallocating lottery money to rebalance investment in EnglandPublic spending on the arts is heavily skewed towards London, with pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMYoung Vic announces The X Files star will play Blanche DuBois in 2014 production of Tennessee Williams classicGillian Anderson, fresh from her acclaimed role in the BBC2 thriller The Fall, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMResearch finds resurgence of interest in plays among younger people – and change in attitudes to audience etiquetteA higher proportion of people went to the theatre last year than attended…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMShow that attracted cult following during a run on Broadway more than a decade ago plays in London next FebruaryFor months, it has been referred to only as "UGC London", a secret musical tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09PMTheatre launches ambitious project to find and perform UK's best-loved play written in EnglishHamlet and Macbeth will be up there, you would imagine, along with Waiting for Godot, An Inspect…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMArtistic director says plays will transfer to London venue in 2014 and 2015 more than a decade after acrimonious splitThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to return to London's Barbican Centre i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMCameron Mackintosh left 'flummoxed' after musical sells more than £4.4m worth of tickets in one day for 25th anniversary run It had songs such as I Still Believe and Now That I've Seen Her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PMCowell is set to be the butt of many jokes − from lovechilds to high trouser waistlines – but he is taking them in good spirit"I honestly thought this is the worst idea I have ever heard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMActor fined and given three penalty points over New Year's Eve incident in which his car hit a pedestrian in central LondonSteven Berkoff, the actor best known to some for his larger than li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMReport calls for free advertising on underground network and says mayor should appoint ambassador for small theatresTube posters for West End shows that have been left beyond their expiry da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMReport calls for free advertising on underground network and says mayor should appoint ambassador for small theatresTube posters for West End shows that have been left beyond their expiry da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMEat Pray Laugh! show to take place across country from October to spring 2014With a telephone by her side – "it is in touch with the bedside of little Kate Middleton" – Dame Edna Everage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMBallet choreographed by Will Tuckett will run at Duchess theatre over Christmas as ROH follows in footsteps of National and RSCOne tricky issue will be the interval car chase of Toad. "We've…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMFestival theatre's Angus Jackson to direct Langella in role often called the Ever~est of acting at Minerva theatre in NovemberFrank Langella, the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMEnglish National Ballet scores coup with new commissions as part of programme inspired by centenary of first world warNew works by British choreographers Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMFirst adaptation of PG Wodehouse's comedy double act as a play is based largely on 1938 book The Code of the WoostersThere are the books of course, TV series in the sixties and nineties, rad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTop performer who walked from Midnight Express will dance principal role with Stanislavsky Ballet in London"He is a good boy," Vladimir Urin said reassuringly to the dancer normally portraye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMPlay about maths genius equals Matilda's record, as Helen Mirren has first win and Top Hat is named best musicalThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time dominated the UK's most pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMRoddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novelOne very big reason why it has taken 25 years for The Commitments to hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMRoddy Doyle says admiration for shows such as The Producers finally persuaded him to allow staging of bestselling novel Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMFirst production in six years, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, to be staged in huge disused venue in central LondonMost theatre companies announce new productions in a press release. Onl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMJonathan Harvey's play returns 20 years after its debut with producers hoping it will speak just as powerfully to audiencesWhen Jonathan Harvey wrote Beautiful Thing, the gay age of consent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMDavid Cecil tells of arrest and how he was forced to leave, despite a magistrate earlier dismissing case against himA British theatre producer deported from Uganda after staging a play with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMFigures published by the Society of London Theatres show ninth successive year of record box office returnsWest End theatre attendances went up slightly in 2012, allaying fears that the Olym…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMArtistic director Gregory Doran says he has perfect actor in mind to play lead in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the BodiesGregory Doran has a good idea of who could play what will be one of the mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMRoyal Shakespeare Company's artistic director, Gregory Doran, announces Tennant's return – plus first stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novelsFive years after his critic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMDouglas H Jeffery's archive documents more than 30,000 productions, from RSC's early days to Lord of the Rings musicalHe could, apparently, be something of a pain when he was taking pictures…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTV comedian's first foray into musical theatre – Viva Forever!, based on the Spice Girls' music – opens in London this weekShe is the bossy, egocentric narcissist in French and Saunders,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30AMDancer Ray Barra reflects on Kenneth MacMillan's production and the evolution of ballet since the choreographer's deathNearly 50 years after originating the role of the sensual-but-sleazy Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMFormer head of Royal & Derngate in Northampton takes over from Vicky Featherstone, who is moving to London's Royal CourtLaurie Sansom is to take over at the National Theatre of Scotland when…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMWright's life of Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba is among highlights of Young Vic's 2013 season in LondonIt is probably as far from Atonement, Anna Karenina and the new Brad Pitt adve…
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