Monday, September 10, 2018
Royal Shakespeare Company to assemble consciously diverse cast for season of three playsThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to choose actors for its 2019 summer season who reflect the nation in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
Artistic director of west London’s Bush theatre to leave for new role at UK’s biggest arts centreMadani Younis, the artistic director of the Bush theatre in west London, has been named a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Comedian joins all-star cast to perform British playwright’s work at eponymous theatreThe comedian Lee Evans has announced he is stepping out of retirement to be part of a London stage sea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, August 13, 2018
Maureen Beattie also hopes anti-harassment measures set out by UK actors’ union will be adopted by wider industryWorking class youngsters who dream of becoming actors or performers are inc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Anne-Marie Duff to star in BBC radio play based on the sprawling and controversial novelThe White Hotel has become known as one of the great unadaptable works of modern literature, almost bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s New London theatre is renamed after Cats choreographerCarried to the stage on a golden throne and surrounded by dancers from the musical Cats, the choreographer Dame …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMIn a £15.8m redevelopment, the influential regional theatre will revert to its old nameThe West Yorkshire Playhouse, one of the most important of the UK’s regional theatres, plans to clos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Billionaire vows to continue ‘tradition of excellence’ at Theatre Royal HaymarketThe billionaire entertainment mogul and arts philanthropist Sir Leonard Blavatnik has bought one of Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Actor is cast opposite Stephen Dillane in production to be directed by Katie Mitchell Cate Blanchett is to return to the UK stage for the first time in seven years when she makes her debut a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
Matthew Lopez’s hit about group of middle-class gay men in New York will open at the Noel Coward Theatre in SeptemberA sprawling, sold-out seven-hour play about the lives of a group of mid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMThursday, May 10, 2018
Exclusive: Danny Dyer, Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig among stars of London seasonA starry lineup of actors including Martin Freeman, Jane Horrocks, Tamsin Greig, David Suchet and Danny Dye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Performers to grace the Victorian stage in London after a gap of 80 years, once lottery-funded revamp finishes this summerFor the first time in more than 80 years, regular performances are t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Michelle Terry in lead male role, as theatre pursues her pledge for democratic, gender-blind castingThe first experiment in democratic casting by Shakespeare’s Globe has led to its artisti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Theatre gala organisers apologise for ‘serious error’ in leaving the influential director out of this year’s In Memoriam segmentOrganisers of the Olivier awards have said they will ren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Author has worked with playwright Rona Munro for complex cop’s stage bowRebus, the abrasive, hard-drinking and brilliant Edinburgh detective created by Ian Rankin, is to be the star of a n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AMSunday, April 8, 2018
Jez Butterworth’s play The Ferryman, the National Theatre and Bryan Cranston also winnersHamilton, the stage juggernaut that is arguably the most wildly popular and influential musical for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25PMThursday, March 15, 2018
Actor was at the launch of National Theatre initiative Let’s Play to encourage more theatre-making in primary schoolsSir Lenny Henry has criticised cuts in school drama teaching as a scand…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
English National Ballet’s artistic boss voices distress at reports of unhappiness in the company Tamara Rojo, the prima ballerina turned artistic boss of English National Ballet, has defen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Playhouse Theatre will stage immersive production of work by Joe Robertson and Joe MurphyThe Jungle, the immersive play that won five-star reviews for its powerful portrayal of life in the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical picks up 13 nominations, with Follies and The Ferryman also recognised in several categoriesOlivier awards 2018: complete list of nominationsIt is one of the m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Equity’s response to Weinstein scandal targets everything from nudity to gender balance Sexual predators, harassers and bullies in the entertainment industries who are lying low, hoping th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Jemma Kennedy’s experience of treatment was so bad she felt she had to write a play IVF treatment in the UK has become a money-making racket, according to a writer who found her own person…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Will Young stars as new band leader character in a production promising ‘subversive anarchy’It is a story about speaking up, daring to be different and rebelling against a badly-tanned, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:58PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
London’s Theatre503 will host 10 short plays exploring issues of consent and power, with April De Angelis and Richard Bean contributingEstablished playwrights including April De Angelis an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMRichard Eyre to direct adaptation of 2016 novel at Bridge theatreThe US actor Laura Linney is to make her London stage debut in an adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton.N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Theatres Trust’s annual risk register lists 35 buildings that could vanish Theatres around the UK are in danger of being lost for ever unless more local authorities start seeing them as op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThursday, January 18, 2018
Kelly, director of UK’s largest arts centre since 2006, wants to focus on Women of the World festivalJude Kelly, one of the UK’s longest-serving and highest-profile arts leaders, is step…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM#WeAreArrested is based on book by Can Dündar, sentenced to jail after exposing arms dealsThe dangers posed to a free and independent press by governments are to be explored in a play commi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThursday, January 11, 2018
Artistic director and executive producer were the first female partnership to run a London theatre The first female partnership to run a London theatre have announced their departure from th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Royal Court artistic director takes top spot in league table after swift response to industry harassment scandalVicky Featherstone, the artistic director of the Royal Court, has been named t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00PMSunday, December 3, 2017
Star of stage and screen made triumphant return after political career to play King Lear at the Old VicGlenda Jackson’s return to the stage after a 25-year career change as a Labour politi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PM 
