London 2012 Games causing low turnout at British Museum and West End theatres but National Theatre and BFI report boomDespite the eerily deserted streets of central London, arts and entertai…
Best actor winner's speech marks dramatic change of tone after a series of calamitous awards ceremony appearancesEyes glistening with tears and voice cracking, James Corden scooped the Tony …
From scale to snacks, dress to drinks, the remains of the Shoreditch playhouse promise to reveal much about the environment that shaped Shakespeare's early workThe rediscovery of the site of…
Theatre where Romeo and Juliet was first performed is rediscovered in Shoreditch centuries after it was dismantledWell preserved remains of Shakespeare's original "wooden O" stage, the Curta…
Singer who had own radio series and was nominated for Olivier and Tony awards is second black woman to be so honouredAn English Heritage blue plaque has been unveiled in London to the velvet…
Job will be actor's first in theatre since he quit artistic director role in 2005 and follows successful run in JerusalemThe actor Mark Rylance, fresh from triumphant West End and Broadway p…
Agatha Christie's thriller which first went on show in 1952 will also celebrate its 60th year with a 60-theatre tour in the UKWhen The Mousetrap opened in the West End, London was still in t…
Michael Morpurgo's classic is the basis of a National Army Museum exhibition tracing the history of the real war horsesOf more than 120 books Michael Morpurgo has written, War Horse is not h…
Glittering inaugural programme to include everything from Philharmonia Orchestra and Shakespeare to Peppa PigThe tourists drifting past in boats on the river Stour didn't realise it, but the…
Companies from all over the world are coming to England in 2012 to join an extravaganza of Shakespeare productionsMore than a million tickets will go on sale next month for an explosion of S…
Plans announced for project which will allow year-round performances on William Shakespeare's famous London stageHardy theatregoers who have stood patiently to watch rain-soaked summer perfo…
Play of Michael Morpurgo's novel wins five titles at US theatrical awards following transfer to BroadwayThe Broadway transfer of the National Theatre's War Horse, the moving first world war …
Death of Jane Shaxspere bore hallmarks of character and girl may even have been relative of playwrightA little girl of the 16th century, who lost her footing while picking flowers, tumbled i…
Artists, writers and musicians will portray events including the Arab spring and Tahrir Square protests in showcase ShubbakThe first festival of contemporary Arab arts will spread across Lon…
Clarke Peters and Dominic West will appear in Shakespeare play to mark Crucible theatre's 40th anniversaryTwo stars of cult TV series The Wire will appear this autumn in a startlingly differ…
Programme includes theatre productions starring Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett, and major Bauhaus exhibitionThe Barbican arts centre in London will celebrate next year's Olympics with a…
Jez Butterworth's play, set in Wiltshire woodland and rooted in rural Englishness, is likely to become a smash hit in AmericaHang out the red-cross flags, round up the morris dancers: a play…
Comic-book hero tours with Gotham City sets and a Batmobile. But not, director insists after Spiderman's musical tangle, songsThere will be bats. And flying. And huge sets. And spectacular s…
Small regional organisations have done best, while one in four of the losers is London-basedAlmost one in four of the Arts Council funding losers " 47 of the 206 organisations losing their e…
Dress actor wore as Lady Macbeth in 1880s has been repaired with help from donations to National TrustAfter five years and more than 700 hours of delicate restoration work, a green gown shim…
Long-lost footage of one of the most influential companies in dance history has been discovered " the only evidence of Diaghilev's dancers on filmA tiny lost treasure of ballet history has b…
Libraries won't be able to escape budget cuts in Liverpool. In London, some good news " theatres have seen near-record attendancesLiverpool council today announced that 1,500 jobs will be cu…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has scrapped dates at Newcastle's Theatre Royal as a result of cuts in RSC fundingAnyone in Newcastle looking forward to the Royal Shakespeare Company's regular…
Michael Grandage announces Jude Law's role as part of final season at the Donmar WarehouseJude Law will return to the London stage this summer, in the Eugene O'Neill play Anna Christie, as p…
Can you feel the love? More than 800,000 saw musical of Disney cartoon in its 11th year in West EndRead Michael Billington's expert viewCats may have slunk away into the night, but The Lion …