Contingency Plan by Steve Waters to be staged at Donmar Warehouse and Theatr Clwyd A double bill of plays that premiered 10 years ago and were hailed as the first big theatre productions to …
Sir Nicholas Serota says east of England and libraries could also be priorities in 10-year plan More artists, writers and composers at an early stage of their careers should get public money…
Arts organisations will have to provide data on socio-economic background of employees for first time next year Arts organisations will for the first time have to provide data on the socio-e…
Author David Walliams hopes new musical about 12-year-old Dennis can speak to everyone While the Royal Shakespeare Company's big new family musical The Boy in the Dress is, on the face of it…
Andrew Scott is best actor and Sweat wins play of the year at Evening Standard awards Dame Maggie Smith's return to the stage after a 12-year absence has won her a record fifth best actress …
Actor has chance to add to her record tally after returning to stage following 12-year absence Dame Maggie Smith's return to the stage after a 12-year absence has put her in contention for h…
Royal Court crackdown forms part of mission to become net-zero-carbon venue in 2020 Audience members at the Royal Court theatre will be banned from taking in single-use plastic bottles as pa…
Move comes after majority-white US version in 2016 triggered social media storm A cast reflecting the diversity of Britain as well as a story that is essentially the Book of Exodus have been…
Production will be part of season providing free tickets to first-time theatre-goers James McAvoy is returning to the West End of London as Cyrano de Bergerac, the opening play of a season o…
Awards, with three categories including £10,000 prize for best comedy show, will be known as Daves The television channel Dave is to follow fizzy water, finance, lager, and online travel …
Cameron Mackintosh plans Queen's theatre name change to honour influential composer A West End theatre is to be renamed in honour of Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential figures in…
Donmar Warehouse denies it is pandering to easily offended by listing disturbing content Theatre audiences are used to being warned about nudity and violence when booking tickets, as well as…
Tree is billed as a collaboration between Elba and director Kwame Kwei-Armah Two writers claim they were removed from a high-profile theatre production about to open at the Manchester intern…
Playwright will return to West End with Leopoldstadt, based in old Jewish quarter of Vienna Tom Stoppard, whose four Jewish grandparents and much of his family from his parents' generation …
Impresario hopes Mountview Academy donation will help prove 'you don't have to be posh' to get on in theatre Sir Cameron Mackintosh has given £1m to help one of the UK's most diverse dram…
Hadestown musical lands 14 nominations after Broadway transfer from London Jez Butterworth's Troubles-set family drama The Ferryman has soared high in the US's most important theatre awards,…
Pair to star in two-hander Lungs as theatre also reveals a Beckett double bill with Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming Claire Foy and Matt Smith, who starred as the Queen and Prince Philip i…
Coach & Horses pub to host new version of play based on 'brilliantly funny, sour' journalist The journalist Jeffrey Bernard would wake up, smoke in bed for 30 minutes "contemplating the …
Exclusive: American standing down in summer to concentrate on directing opera and theatre Daniel Kramer, the artistic director of English National Opera, is quitting his job after less than …
Sean Foley directs story of chemist who invents a fabric that never fades, angering mill owners A 1950s Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a brilliant chemist whose invention pits him a…
Tommy Cooper's fez and Paul Daniels' saw-in-half box part of display at Wellcome Collection Tommy Cooper's fez, a gorilla mask used by Derren Brown and a wooden box and saw that Paul Daniel…
Michael Longhurst says first season includes 1994 play that 'speaks entirely to our times' There was no avoiding it, the incoming boss of the Donmar Warehouse said, his first play in charge …
Murder mystery will have a different guest actor each night being fed lines by earpiece Actors including Gillian Anderson, Joanna Lumley, Meera Syal, Jim Broadbent and Damian Lewis are to ap…
Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead will open at Manchester international festival A four-hour play based on one of the few novels Donald Trump has enjoyed and admired i…
Magic Goes Wrong has been co-written with magicians Penn & Teller There has been a creaky murder mystery that went wrong, a catastrophic Peter Pan and a chaotic A Christmas Carol. Next w…