Sunday, March 30, 2025
Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors
The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow's t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2024
Alasdair Buchan, who directed his version aged 11 in 1997, will play mysterious stranger in long-running whodunnit
As the curtain falls on every performance of The Mousetrap, the world's lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2024
As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake
The striking name of the playwright and novelist Aphra Behn, pioneering que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2024
TV head hopes programme will spark 'a #MeToo moment for men' ahead of two-part show on the Oscar-winning actor
One of the producers of a Channel 4 documentary that contains fresh claims that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2024
New arts lobby group says plight that hits even top bodies such as Royal Shakespeare Company makes entire country poorer
The vast majority of England's biggest subsidised cultural institutio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
The coal miner's daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain's youngest MP is the subject of two new shows
'Behind every great man stands a great woman," the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2024
The literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat
The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors' Benevolent Fund
The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]The Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds
' Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi
Britain's cast of leading act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2024
Theatreland is taking a gamble on a wave of quirky little shows to challenge the big but tired box office beasts
A fresh kind of musical theatre show, set apart by having started life on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2024
Windsor and Maidenhead scraps cultural budget in wake of similar moves in Suffolk, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham
The chill blast of damaging cuts to provincial arts venues has returned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2023
Venues across the UK closed over building safety fears sprinkle a little magic to keep their shows on the road
Every good pantomime needs a menacing villain to threaten all the fun, and this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]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 televisio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 05:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2023
Performers and producers say arts are being 'sanitised' amid more sensitive attitudes towards swearing and sexual politics
An annual "poster war" has raged between rival promoters for as lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2023
The historical novelist's first play looks again at the 'panto villain' image of the king reviled by Shakespeare
There is one king who simply will not lie down quietly and stay in the past. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2023
Producers of West End show Vardy v Rooney say surprise legal move to trademark a pun will be referred to in script
A big publicity boost for a West End show can come from the most unexpected…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 16, 2023
Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions
The BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile production…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 published …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 anythin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2022
Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times
This Christmas, whatever the weather, it wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2022
Young Latina whose act tackles disability is among the winners at prestigious awards ceremony
Both of the top prizes for being funny at the 2022 Edinburgh fringe festival have gone to foreig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Australian comedian scoops £10,000 prize as Mexican-born American Lara Ricote is named best newcomer
The top comedy prizes at this year's Edinburgh festival fringe have gone to foreign ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2022
Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war
From a social outcast to an object of national pity a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2022
Nica Burns, driving force of the festival's comedy prize, talks about the winners and losers in 40 years of the hugely influential event
Comedians have a reputation for being tough: the stre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2022
Alan Bleasdale works with Sherwood creator James Graham to revisit TV masterpiece
When Boys from the Blackstuff went out on television four decades ago, it was hailed as a show that would s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2022
Distinguished ballet choreographer takes issue with views of his friend, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
' Russia-Ukraine war " latest updates
Russian artists and performers must not stay silent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 girls:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 12, 2021
Demand is growing to allow flexible working for cast as well as crew in the theatre industry
If disaster strikes in the theatre, an understudy replaces a leading actor, sometimes even during…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 11, 2021
The woes of Britain's government offer a rich seam of comedy and it's being mined in theatres and on TVs across the country
"Aren't we all having fun? What about you in the back row? Yes, we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE] 
