Fiona Shaw to host gala for new group supporting women in opera
Fiona Shaw is to an host an all-female concert marking the inaugural event of an organisation set up to support women and
Fiona Shaw is to an host an all-female concert marking the inaugural event of an organisation set up to support women and
When staging a prose work by Samuel Beckett, one question frequently comes up: what is the point of putting his novels on
Over the past month, four stories about the entertainment industry have made a deep impression on me. The first was Anne-Marie Duff candidly talking about
Emerging theatre artists in the UK will benefit from more than £250,000 of dedicated funding from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, as
It looks likely we will have a new figure joining the West End's top table in the coming weeks: Len Blavatnik. Sir
Music is, maybe, the most human thing there is and the music industry, possibly, the most inhuman. And it's not had its
Fairy lights hang from the ceiling. In the foreground a woman is stretched out, her legs spread-eagled. Behind her, bare chested men
The micro-budgeted but innovative Mikron theatre company's stock in trade is an ability to pop up in any sort of small venue
The chameleon actor made her mark with a string of lauded lead performances including Lady Macbeth and Medea. Ahead of starring in
People are learning how to interact with each other though porn. That's message behind Why is the Sky Blue? (Or How to
Theatremakers including Yellow Earth artistic director Kumiko Mendl and actor Lucy Sheen have slammed "harmful stereotyping" of British East Asian actors in
Two initiatives have been launched for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe aimed at helping young theatre writers break into arts journalism. The
Now appearing in Chess at the London Coliseum, the performer and pop star tells Mark Shenton how the loss of her mother
Katie Hopkins isn't a happy bunny. In case you missed it, a new production opened this week called The Assassination of Katie
Poor Charles McNulty. The Los Angeles Times journalist appears to have had something of a torrid time interviewing our very own Glenda
Lyn Gardner is right to point out ('We have a Shakespeare problem', April 26) that for people growing up in the UK,
The latest press night parties, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures.This week's highlights include the press nights of An Officer
Mime faces many challenges but it did not die with Marcel Marceau, argues WMO co-founder Marko Stojanovic who organised a global conference
Critics aren’t employed to agree with each other, let alone with the readers they write for or the artists they are writing
I have been looking for a new agent and have had a few meetings over the last two weeks that all seemed
When will we be able to end the hideous hashtag actors life that is now endemic in the industry? What can we
Actors Olivia Colman and Samuel West have backed a new campaign that urges political parties in London to sign up to a
East Asian men are "dehumanised, desexualised and made to look ugly" when they are represented in Western culture, actor Daniel York Loh
Stewart Laing’s production of David Greig’s punchy 2008 modern language version of Strindberg’s Creditors is raw and often brutal. This dissection of