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 09:48AMRose Matafeo’s take on twentysomething life is toast of the FringeNew Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh festival fringe. Steve Coogan, one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMNew 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 09:04AMThis year’s Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents – from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth – who blazed the same trailAmong the many voices booming out across comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMHe's probably the most notable stage actor around, a master of the classics who seems to be making Shakespeare's greatest characters his own. Next on the agenda is Macbeth at London's Almeid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMPoorer 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 03:54AMDramatists 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 11:54AMLost memoir reveals playwright’s vanities and key friendshipsFrom the haunting theatricality of An Inspector Calls, to the comic charm of The Good Companions and When We Are Married, the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AMWritten 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 10:42PMAward-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells how Guardian writer Luke Harding’s account of the 2006 murder inspired her new dramaWhen Lucy Prebble tackled financial fraud and the collapse o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMStory 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 07:42PMSir 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 07:05PMThe 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 08:01PMNew drama Mad As Hell explores how actor Peter Finch’s real-life anger over snobbery and prejudice fuelled his Oscar-winning performance in the 1976 filmHis “mad as hell” outburst as A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMStage shows salute theatre genius of king of comic capers 10 years on from his death“Irrepressible” was the word often used to describe the Essex-born performer and writer Ken Campbell. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe venue that entertained the razed camp’s migrants will reopen in France – as its playwright founders find acclaim at the Young VicWhen the tent in Calais that housed the Good Chance T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMDirector 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 07:48PMRare revival of the author’s play Dear Brutus will drop adults into a Neverland-like worldNeverland, the magical place made famous by JM Barrie’s Peter Pan, will be closer than you think…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMActors 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 10:04AMAudience 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 07:48PMNottingham Playhouse celebrates its 50th aniversary with a night of little-known worksLost short plays by Harold Pinter, John Mortimer and Shelagh Delaney are to be performed again for the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMMemoir tells how legacy of tragic first wife haunted his workFor 60 years actor Henry Woolf was the intimate friend of Harold Pinter, the Nobel laureate widely judged the greatest theatrical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMPlaywright finds inspiration for his new play in the travails of the faction-riven partyJames Graham’s 2012 hit play This House, set in parliament in the 1970s, raised a few pertinent que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMJudges 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 10:04AMA look back at the evolution of the event, now celebrating its 70th year, and how risk-taking has kept it ahead of the gameSacrifice in the name of art was more than just a noble sounding id…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSpectacular 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 07:24PMKeith West and Mark Wirtz’s haunting 60s hit is centrepiece of completed showGrocer Jack – properly known as Excerpt from a Teenage Opera – the strange novelty song that made the numbe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMRival 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 03:04PMThey 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 08:54PMAs he picks up a lifetime achievement award, Andrew Lloyd Webber reflects, in an exclusive interview, on his career and the censoring of a Dreamcoat lyricAndrew Lloyd Webber has intervened i…
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