Monday, November 4, 2024
Outgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the outgoing artistic director of the Young Vic, has warned th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who played Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo, says racist abuse went on for months
The actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who received a barrage of online racia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMThursday, August 8, 2024
Deborah McAndrew’s Bright Lights Over Bentilee recreates the local legend of a UFO sighting in the fields behind a housing estate in 1967
For residents of the Bentilee housing estate in St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
Mainly male audience members had to step out of preview performance of The Years after graphic scene
An award-winning play premiering in London had to be stopped for 10 minutes during a prev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMMonday, July 22, 2024
Queen, his biggest show to date, opens in Liverpool and features new commissions of the city’s drag performers
As a child, Magnus Hastings loved stealing his sister’s clothes and wearing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
Exclusive: Actors call for all parties to back investment as figures suggest 16% cuts since 2017
Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman have called on all political parties to urgently invest in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 12 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war
Vyacheslav Yehorov was working at a film school creating art therapy for children when…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Exclusive: Playwright James Graham says he will rewrite Dear England depending on outcome of Euros
If the Three Lions lift the men’s Euros trophy this summer, they will have rewritten the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic
Michelle Terry, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
As his coming-of-age rollercoaster hits the stage, the novelist talks about the boredom of hospitals, how Britain has changed since Buddha – and why shouting at his kids is a great way to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Gregory Doran asks how content warnings could be issued for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
It is a play renowned for its extreme physical violence, with scenes featuring execution, rape an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, 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,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMSaturday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMSunday, 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 01:24PMWednesday, 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 Richar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, 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 Lovel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, 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 theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, 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 trul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMFriday, 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 01:55PMFriday, 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 (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMWednesday, 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 02:37PMSunday, 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 trem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMFriday, 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-l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMFriday, 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 05:03AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, 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 12:06PMTuesday, 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 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMSunday, 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 04:45PMWednesday, 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 05:00AMTuesday, 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 
