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When it comes to children's shows, it's hard to go wrong with one based on a book by Julia Donaldson. Only just
More than half of people responding to a poll by The Stage do not think producers need to take contemporary social values
The proliferation of open-air, promenade-style productions continues as Feelgood Theatre returns to Manchester's Heaton Park for the second summer running. Romeo and
Eugene Ionesco, the French-Romanian titan of post-war drama, acclaimed architect of such avant-garde classics as The Killer, The Chairs and Rhinoceros, only
A young, louche Hollywood screenwriter hosts a charmingly frenetic priest in his hotel room. Every moment, it seems to get hotter between
Fresh out of drama school, Joseph Dawson and James Meteyard decided to set up their own company and before long they were
Marianne Elliott has admitted she has considered giving up being a director, because she does not "find it easy". Elliott, speaking on
Last week, Andrew Lloyd Webber announced he was changing the name of the theatre division of his company from Really Useful Theatres
Academic Simon Smith has won this year’s Shakespeare’s Globe Book award for his work analysing music in early modern theatre. The biennial
Home, I'm Darling " National Theatre, London Katherine Parkinson gives an immaculate performance in Laura Wade's new five-star play about the pursuit of perfection
In Hamlet, the Danish prince commissions a troupe of players to perform at King Claudius' court in Elsinore. Shakespeare own's company, the
I begin this month on Twitter, again. This time, I'm locked in to Tamara Harvey's excellent feed on the perils of being
The Belfast Telegraph is a Northern Ireland institution. In its day it was widely looked upon by both communities as the news
Bill Bankes-Jones’ Pagliacci transports Leoncavallo’s rural Italian tragedy to a tent in Paisley. A performing troupe arrive to stage a commedia dell'arte
Plays Kate O’Flynn, Jessica Barden and Russell Tovey have joined the cast of a West End season of Harold Pinter‘s one act
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has launched a steering group that aims to strengthen the arts and culture sectors in the area.
Edinburgh venue Summerhall has abolished zero-hour contracts for all its full-time workers, after signing a voluntary agreement with trade union Unite. Unite
Braham Murray, the longest serving artistic director of the Royal Exchange Manchester, has died suddenly aged 75. Murray devoted most of his
Cameron Mackintosh’s foundation has renewed funding for its musical theatre composers scheme for a further four years. The Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer
Adapted by Rodney Ackland from a 1922 short story by W Somerset Maugham and successfully staged in 1949 at St Martin's Theatre
In the 1920s and 1930s, provocative chanteuse Margo Lion wowed the Berlin cabaret scene before she fled to Paris. Nick Smurthwaite meets
For its second summer offering Dorset Opera returns to the tried and tested with Puccini's classic " a work that never palls
Given Jules Massenet's unassailable position in the pantheon of 19th-century French opera composers, it seems inexplicable that such a major work as
Nancy Medina has been announced as the winner of the Royal Theatrical Support Trust's Sir Peter Hall Director award. The award, which
A network for black performers to raise issues that affect them at work has been established by Equity. The Change Network is
