Sunday, September 10, 2023
The 1970s star blazed the way for mass-audience satire in Britain. But is there an appetite for it now?
As the entertainment world mourns the death at 82 of Britain’s most popular televis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMSunday, August 13, 2023
String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens
Running a theatre has become a seriously unappealing job, according to many of those working at Brita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMMonday, April 10, 2023
The Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage
Female readers are the acknowledged force behind the market in publishe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, January 8, 2023
The 1982 play stills pulls in crowds from Broadway to Helsinki, and is now returning to the West End for a fifth time. ‘I just can’t understand it,’ says its creator
The arrival of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Xander Parish, who fled St Petersburg in March, talks about his performance this weekend with Russian and Ukrainian artistes
When the dancer Xander Parish made his return to the London stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSunday, January 9, 2022
Leading dancers and directors say they find the classic costume both physically and artistically restrictive
The ballerina’s tutu remains a traditional object of desire for many young girl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, February 21, 2021
The Cuban star talks about his battle to lift spirits at the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the film he has made to rally performers as their stages stay dark
When Carlos Acosta, considered one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMMonday, January 4, 2021
As Zoom fatigue sets in, organisations are seeking creative ways to bring art to patrons to keep them – and their wallets – engaged
A concert from your favourite opera singer, delivered …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSaturday, March 28, 2020
Acclaimed productions will be available to watch on Guardian site as coronavirus outbreak continues
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMSaturday, December 7, 2019
Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss and Nina Sosanya star in James Graham and Josie Rourke’s theatrical experiment
The play The Vote, a theatrical experiment broadcast live on television on electi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMSaturday, July 6, 2019
Broad stage theatre comedy full of plot twists, puns and frantic action is finding a new audienceThe stage is set like a hotel bedroom where a scantily clad woman is hiding inside a wardrobe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMWomen claim staff did not ‘like the T-shirts we are wearing’ but NT says the action was ‘a result of a series of disturbances’
The National Theatre has become embroiled in a bitter w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMSunday, March 24, 2019
Jamael Westman explains how his role in the West End show has affected his politics as well as his careerThe swift rise to fame of Jamael Westman, leading man in the London cast of the hit m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
A new book helps BAME actors shrug off stereotypes and show their real talentsNeed a convincing member of a street gang for a TV show? Or a suspected terrorist for a police interrogation sce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Bristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m faceliftOne of the oldest theatres in Europe, Bristol Old Vic, is finally to have a proper fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSaturday, August 25, 2018
New Zealander’s show about sex and modern social mores scoops top comedy gongThe New Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.Her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMInfluential avant garde creative force who worked with David Bowie dies in Italy, aged 80Lindsay Kemp, the experimental British choreographer and mime, who made his name in the 1960s and col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Poorer drama students face an uphill struggle, with funding cuts and rising fees. But British theatre may be the loser unless more actors from a range of backgrounds take centre stageWhen Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
Dramatists behind a C4 film and two plays about the referendum must contend with the way facts and key players in this divisive issue are still shiftingIt is the divisive issue that will com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Written in the 1890s, censored in the 1960s, tale of young desire Spring Awakening is back on stage as a musicalA story once banned from the British stage due to its celebration of adolescen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMSaturday, April 21, 2018
Story of Scottish meteorologist James Stagg’s crucial intervention in Operation Overlord comes to the West End in tense drama PressureA tense historical drama celebrating the D-day interve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMSaturday, March 31, 2018
Sir Michael Morpurgo is supporting a large-scale public performance to honour the warrior at the spot where his body returned to British soilIn 1916, the Rev David Railton, a former curate i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 24, 2018
The actor spoke about the end of her marriage to James McAvoy on the BBC Radio 4 showAnne-Marie Duff has spoken of the emotional impact of the end of her decade-long marriage to the Scottish…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMSaturday, November 25, 2017
Director of theatre near fire that killed 71 people picks play about gerrymandering in 1980s as debut productionA play about a notorious social housing scandal is to be staged in a new theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Actors reproduce lost world of ‘Indian noir’ in former art deco department store, which will afterwards become part of the Dishoom restaurant chainAmid clouds of cigarette smoke and the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Audience to be given food during stage version of Nigel Slater’s memoirToast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, the bestselling food memoir by Observer writer Nigel Slater, is to be brought t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Judges could not choose between shows by Hannah Gadsby and John Robins – so have given both the £10,000 first prizeFor the first time in the history of Edinburgh’s festival fringe, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Spectacular light show in New Town square has shut down smaller events and venues, say criticsIt was meant to celebrate all that the summer festival season has come to mean to Edinburgh and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMSaturday, July 29, 2017
Rival arts organisations cry foul at award of £2m in Arts Council funding to her next theatrical venture, Wise ChildrenThe beleaguered stage director Emma Rice, who is to step down from run…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMSaturday, July 22, 2017
They were at the vanguard of political comedy. Now Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson and Sue Perkins are heading back to the festival, as it celebrates its 70th birthdayUnknown talents and studen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
Critic's play shows how the famous actor's arrest was part of the 1950s homosexual witch-huntsThe scandal that almost ended the career of Sir John Gielgud is to be brought to the London stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM 
