Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings' Complete list of nominations
James Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2024
Highly anticipated new play is a post-#MeToo story about trials women endure to realise their dreams
He has built a reputation as one of Britain's most revered modern playwrights, but Jez Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
Hit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY!
The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe's artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role
The artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe has pushed on with playing Richard II…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
Sarah Grochala's Intelligence follows Lovelace's attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist in 1840s London
A play about the reincarnation of the Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre
Israel-Gaza war " live updates
Some of Britain's most heralded playwrights, actors …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 23, 2023
Actor who played Prince Charles in The Crown said non-London crowds 'have a real hunger for a good night at the theatre'
The actor Dominic West has extolled the virtues of regional theatre a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2023
April De Angelis comedy, to be premiered in Hampstead, explores life of actor at a time when married women were 'legally dead'
She was known as the Queen of Drury Lane and the first truly re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
The US author of Sex and the City will appear on stage in London in early 2024 before going on a UK-wide tour
Candace Bushnell, the real-life Carrie Bradshaw, is bringing her one-woman show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2023
Many women working in industry say allegations only scratch the surface of its culture of misogyny
"When I was 18 I had an incident with a powerful male comedian in his 30s," says Lucy (name…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Actor accuses Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incident
The actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central Scho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
Younger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there's still plenty to work with
"If I see somebody become famous, and they've got tremendous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2023
Sucession star Brian Cox tells gathered members of Equity union 'we are at thin end of horrible wedge'
Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Naomie Harris and Simon Pegg were among the British A-list …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
Former Coronation Street actor calls for more support, as survey finds lack of safety net for self-employed creatives
More financial support should be available to artists in the periods whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
New artistic director Nancy Medina picks works about the power of belonging such as a queer coming-of-age story from Tarell Alvin McCraney and a musical version of David Nicholls' Starter fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch to open in 2024 on site of playhouse that staged earliest performances
A London museum installation that uses the latest AI technology will allow theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Stage version of 1988 Japanese animation leads the pack while Standing at the Sky's Edge has eight nominations
My Neighbour Totoro, the new stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli's beloved 1988 a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Theatre operators and producers changing marketing strategy as rowdy behaviour escalates
Popular musicals will be told to avoid phrases such as "best party in town" and "dancing in the aisle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2023
The Brits faced criticism for not nominating women in gender-neutral category but women reign in theatre awards chosen by public
Women have dominated the gender-neutral performing categories…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Wilson to enact single, seven-minute scene on loop with 100 men to explore gender roles
Ruth Wilson has called a new stage role in which she will perform the same scene repeatedly for 24 hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2023
The only Bafta award voted for by the British public, the five nominees are all actors from the UK and Ireland
Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in a new feature film about the late sin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:17AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2022
Bridgerton actor, who will also direct the production, says she wants to talk about 'body pathologising'
Was Richard III inherently evil? Or was he othered, excluded and pathologised because…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2022
Artistic director of English National Ballet decries Arts Council England move to divert money from capital
One of the ballet world's biggest stars has accused Arts Council England of "simpl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Actor joins demonstration over plans to slash £50m from arts bodies in London as part of levelling-up agenda
Recent cuts to arts funding are part of "an agenda of cultural vandalism" that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2022
Producer says trial asked questions about boundaries between privacy and celebrity and what it is to be a Wag
A play about the "Wagatha Christie" trial is to be staged in the West End by the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2022
The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic
The story of the suffragettes is a "metaphor for so many things going on right now" including g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2022
Karim Khan's play about two Muslim teenagers learning to swim wins £3,000 prize for best new writing
A coming-of-age tale about two South Asian teenagers who learn to swim in order to imp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2022
Dramatic resignation of Boris Johnson and subsequent leadership race prove a challenge for standup comedians
'People are taking their comedians seriously, and their politicians as a joke," t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Incident raises further questions over comedian safety after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars
The comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked during a performance in Los Angeles, according t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Equity says 'sacking by press release' from Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End show caused pain and distress
Current and future cast members of Cinderella must be compensated for their losses af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2022
Marisha Wallace wants to inspire young girls and call out lack of diversity as she takes on role in Oklahoma!
A professional career in theatre was not always on the cards for Marisha Wallace…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE] 
