Michelle Terry to play Hamlet in gender-blind inaugural season at Shakespeare's Globe
Michelle Terry will play Hamlet in a gender-blind staging of the play, her first major production as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe.
Michelle Terry will play Hamlet in a gender-blind staging of the play, her first major production as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe.
Our daughter will be turning 16 and has her heart set on working as an actor. She started at stage school a
Director Marianne Elliott and actor Rosalie Craig have called for more lead roles for older women in “predominantly male theatre”. Craig argued
A stage adaptation of Zadie Smith’s seminal novel White Teeth will be produced later this year at the Tricycle Theatre, which has
The Tricycle Theatre has announced it is changing its name to Kiln Theatre, as it prepares to reopen after two years of
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with two new shows for 2018: The Merchant of Venice and
"I passionately believe that the stage needs to reflect the diversity of the UK population or it risks becoming sidelined," Andrew Lloyd
As a deputy stage manager " the person who calls the technical aspects of a performance " I have noticed an increase
The team behind Zippos Circus is again taking big-top excitement into the theatre and one of the acts making the transfer is
Scottish Opera celebrates the 10th anniversary of its youth project, the Connect Company, with performances of three short new commissions from the
By the age of nine, Bill Maynard was earning more than his father performing in clubs and on the variety circuit. Before
Patti LuPone has claimed the industry is more "horrible" than it used to be because social media personalities are making it harder
The Olivier award for best director will be renamed to honour the late Peter Hall from next year, organisers have announced. The
Funding for Dance and Drama Awards will be maintained until at least 2020, the government has confirmed. The DaDA scheme offers means-tested
Lil Rice makes up one third of Alula Cyr, which bills itself as the world's first all-female Cyr wheel trio. She tells
Colour-blind casting " that is the casting of people of colour in roles that would typically have been played by white actors
A reimagining of musical Sweet Charity leads the Watermill Theatre in Newbury's latest season. Three world premieres, including a play by Ian
Eileen is stuck in the middle. Her once formidable Irish mother-in-law Nora is starting to forget things. Her teenage daughter Caitlin is
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the first modern circus, but the contribution of many female performers has been written out
As circus takes an increasingly international outlook, UK practitioners are looking to train in Europe and beyond. Katharine Kavanagh explains how a
David Tennant’s trousers, doublet and hose worn by Judi Dench and Ian McKellen’s coat are among more than 50 costumes being auctioned
Shakespeare's tempestuous late romance of loss and exile has both fairytale allure and modern resonance, its action spanning years and oceans, with
My first audition was in voice-over, a mobile exercise game company developed by Six to Start and author and games designer Naomi
How did you start in theatre? I have been around the acting profession since I was very young, watching my mother (the
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