£5m scheme to boost young people's access to arts, announced by culture secretary Jeremy Wright
Arts organisations are to be linked with schools around the UK as part of a £5 million scheme aimed at giving young
Arts organisations are to be linked with schools around the UK as part of a £5 million scheme aimed at giving young
Annie Siddons' Dennis of Penge is a mighty piece of poetic storytelling. By turns ribald and sublime, it's a cri de coeur
How far would you go for your friends " and what if you suspected everything they'd ever told you was a lie?
Hope Mill Theatre’s production of Hair will set out on tour next year, following runs at the Manchester fringe theatre and in
My first job was in 2013 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play was A Concrete Jungle Full of Wild Cars by
How did you start off teaching improv? As a play reader and director at London's Royal Court in the 1960s, we found
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Now in its 52nd year, BITEF continues to support cutting-edge theatre trends. Natasha Tripney reports from this year's festival, which explores nationalism
"Deeds Not Words" was the suffragette motto. Women of all classes joined the movement for female suffrage because they felt invisible and
My five-year-olds appear to have discovered lighting " by which I mean in their bedroom they have LED reading lights that can
The Snow Queen " like so many of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales " is a dark story. A boy is kidnapped and
A decade after his death, and Harold Pinter is receiving a salutation to remember at the West End theatre that bears his
Gloria Williams' new play Bullet Hole, which explores the issue of female genital mutilation, is running at Park Theatre in London until
After staring in TV epics such as Strike, The Musketeers and War and Peace, many would expect Tom Burke's return to stage
Chichester Festival Theatre executive director Rachel Tackley is to step down after two years in the role, citing "different leadership styles" between
As backstage technology becomes ever more sophisticated, staff from leading schools tell Nick Smurthwaite how they are equipping students with the skills
Performed in English and Scots and Irish Gaelic, this trilingual play from Scots Gaelic company Theatre Gu Leor in association with the
In the third part of Wagner's Ring, which concentrates on the adventures of young Siegfried, there remain production elements that puzzle in
With a CV spanning Olivier and Tony award-winning productions, Sian Williams has forged a career in an often misunderstood role. She tells
Last week, Cameron Mackintosh unveiled plans to increase the number of toilets at the Queen’s Theatre, home to Les Miserables. A planning
Chichester Festival Theatre, English National Opera, Sheffield Theatres and the Society of London Theatre are among more than 50 organisations that have
A weekend childcare scheme for parents working in theatre is being set up in the West End. Matinee Club is being described
David Ireland’s Cyrpus Avenue is to return to the Royal Court in London with Stephen Rea to reprise his role. Cyprus Avenue,
One of the most popular of all operettas, The Merry Widow follows the attempts of Baron Zeta, the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris,
Here's art not for art's sake, but for very little sake at all. Nick Dear's portrait of a young, horned-up William Hogarth,