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Glasgow-based theatre company Fire Exit is to close permanently after 17 years, due to the loss of its Creative Scotland core funding.
Few crimes are more despicable than those that exploit the elderly. Shockingly, more than 450,000 people over the age of 66 suffer
Watching Eurovision on Saturday evening, one might have been under the impression Su Pollard was a last-minute entry. The Ukranian entry was
May 29, 1919: With summer approaching, some words of wisdom from The Stage, published 100 years ago this week when we reported
If immersive theatre is a threat to the actors, I have an idea: why not try putting it in a big room,
Theatremaker Aisha Zia has created a gallery in Peterborough to display the work of British Muslim artists and provide a space for
While inevitably remembered most for her long 1970s run as the ever-suffering Maggie Clegg in Coronation Street, Irene Sutcliffe also had a
Amaarah Rose Needham has been performing with south London-based theatre company Sounds Like Chaos since she was 14. She tells Giverny Masso
Strap yourself in for some hollow sentiment and hubris " ballet's enfant terrible Sergei Polunin is back in town. The Ukrainian dancer's
This is getting silly now. Back in 2017, I wrote that it was getting increasingly difficult to find anyone apart from schools
The Merry Wives of Windsor has long been derided as one of Shakespeare's weaker works. American critic Harold Bloom labelled it "Shakespeare's
Dear @dearjohnbyrne and@westendproducer When actors get castings that include… "has to be willing to shave his/her head" I can't be the only
I have just started a long summer tour with a Shakespearean comedy. I auditioned just before my part-time drama course ended and
Cush Jumbo is to make her Young Vic debut as Hamlet in a new production directed by Greg Hersov. Jumbo currently stars
A scholarship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is being launched to commemorate Scottish actor Pauline Knowles, who died suddenly in 2018,
August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle was an extraordinary feat " ten plays, spanning the ten decades of the 20th century, written to explore
My first professional job came about because of a conversation I had 10 years ago with the director Graham Hubbard. We had
How did you start off in performance? I trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and have been working professionally
The Nordic Fringe Season brought innovative, often dark, work and artist speed dating to the Sussex arts jamboree this month. Nick Awde
Meet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details…​​​​​​â€�…
Rutherford, the domineering patriarch in Githa Sowerby's 1912 play, is a man for whom the family business is everything. He has sweated
Actors have expressed concern about dwindling work opportunities at five theatres in the North West, including Oldham Coliseum and Liverpool's Everyman. Funding
Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Michelle Terry tells Natasha Tripney about taking over from Emma Rice during a period of trauma for the
"Ladies, this is your final call." Emilia, the rumbustious, fiercely feminist biographical drama of Shakespeare's 'dark lady of the sonnets', closes on
