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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMThe 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 05:32PMWindsor 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 04:18PMXander 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 12:24PMThe 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 09:06AMAs 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 03:48AMWritten 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 10:42PMSir 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 07:05PMAudience 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 07:48PMCritic'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 05:24PMTV writer Steven Moffat’s demand for fewer intermissions ‘does not make financial sense’Theatre and concert hall managers are mounting a fightback this weekend in defence of an endange…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMMark Rylance's star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth's play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwrightWhen Mark Rylance was toast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMCompetitors and coaches gave writer of Deny, Deny, Deny insights into blurred boundaries around cheating in sportOne of Britain’s leading experts on doping in sport, and an adviser to a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMTom Walker, creator of Jonathan Pie, says it’s now time to move on from the channel that made his name Jonathan Pie, the fictional television reporter who is regularly pushed to the edge o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PMLeonard Bernstein's hostility towards writer of musical's book almost halted project, newly released correspondence revealsIt is regularly judged one of the best musicals of all time, yet We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32PMLondon show aims to revive the faded reputation of the versatile Cockney performer Anthony NewleyA musical about the life of singer Anthony Newley is to be made in an attempt to revive his r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMStadium-filling comedian Michael McIntyre tells Desert Island Discs of 'amazing hostility' from other comicsThe comedian Michael McIntyre has admitted to being shocked by the "hostility…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMStar is latest in a line of film actors to be lured by live shows When John Hannah was a young boy in East Kilbride, the son of a toolmaker and a supermarket cleaner, a future as the star of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMThe Sick of the Fringe initiative highlights the mental health toll of Edinburgh’s endurance testIn Edinburgh from Friday, audiences of festival fringe-goers will sit in the dark in venues…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMThis week sees the film premiere of London Road, a musical based on one of Britain’s most infamous serial killings. Local people say the area has finally moved on from a tragic timeWhen re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PMTamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne and Seline Hizli all pull out of performances of the new West End musical adaption of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFamous for playing Danish detective Sarah Lund, Gråbøl tackles roles of two powerful women a queen and a governor in TV thriller Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMNew play explores the life of Walter Tull, one of the first black footballers in England who also became an officer in the first world war Continue reading...
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