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The Windham-Campbell Prizes, no-strings-attached grants of $165,000, go to English-language writers who don't know they're being considered. This year's winners include British authors Olivi…
Tara theatre, LondonMarivaux's French nobles become suburban British Asians in a pacy but unconvincing update of the romantic comedyPierre de Marivaux's 1730 play The Game of Love and Chance…
Lift: Slobodan Show, directed by Kosovan Serb Nenad Todorović, aims to treat the "last Serbian taboo"A musical about the late Serbian leader Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević was staged in Kosov…
Less often do we focus on the cinematographers behind the lens, many of whom never saw themselves working in television until, in the last decade or so, the schisms between the small and big…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical picks up 13 nominations, with Follies and The Ferryman also recognised in several categoriesOlivier awards 2018: complete list of nominationsIt is one of the mos…
Hamilton leads the contenders for this year's Olivier awards with 13 nominationsBest actor in a supporting role in a musicalMichael Jibson for Hamilton at Victoria Palace Theatre Continue re…
Playhouse, LondonMartin Shaw and Maureen Lipman star in an entertaining 1960 drama set during a Democratic party conventionIt has taken Gore Vidal's highly entertaining drama about US presid…
Femmes, a triple bill for a Canadian ballet company, highlights the need for the art form to rethink its attitude towards womenLast week the Montreal-based Grands Ballets Canadiens announced…
Little Angel theatre, LondonBad puns, circus tricks and goggle-eyed jellyfish abound in a smart adaptation of the popular picture bookThe picture books by Julia Donaldson with illustrations …
Notes made on a 16th-century manuscript, thought to have been an inspiration for the play, could have been the Bard's own, says John CassonAnnotations in the margins of a 16th-century text t…
Actually, many more people have walked into the glass, but three people, in the first month of operation, have been hurt enough to call emergency services. "The glass has been specially trea…
Finborough, LondonA Palestinian couple return to their former home to be confronted by its new Israeli owner in this unsentimental, gently political family dramaCommissioned by New York's Pu…
Rani Moorthy's Handlooms takes place in a traditional clothes store " and its sister shop in Leicester " to explore changing experiences of British Asians When Alankar House of Sarees first …
Rufus Norris returns to Shakespeare after 25 years with a starry production at the National in London. Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton dropped in for an exclusive look Continue reading…
The author, who just won The Story Prize for her Anything Is Possible, says, "The first time I read it, I was on vacation with my in-laws and sitting by the pool one of them said: 'Liz, that…
New Zealand's 'fourth most popular folk-parody act' are on a sold-out arena tour. Is there a shrewdness behind the duo's laidback shtick?Few comedians ever play London's O2 Arena and fewer s…
Why is it under discussion? Because Johnson finally - finally - had to answer questions about the cost to the public of a bridge that never got built. "A total of £60m of public money was…
Yes, women have often sung tenor in church choirs or amateur operas, but now "female singers in professional companies, as well as in amateur operatic societies and choirs, are taking advant…
Katori Hall promises the true story of the singer, who she describes as a shining exampleWhile the arts has acknowledged its problem with diversity and talks about making things better, ther…
Or, in other words, can it be a force in music that disrupts labels the way Netflix disrupted ... well, what exactly did Netflix disrupt? Movie rental stores. Meanwhile, Apple Music might ha…
Wilton's Music Hall; Hackney Showroom, LondonThe heart's deepest desires are visited by Jonathan Goddard's lean and savage thane and Sweetshop Revolutions's celebration of sexual awakeningTh…
The haves and have-nots meet to ramp up Spitfire production in Howard Brenton's lively new playJust over 40 years ago, Howard Brenton wrote the first new commission to be performed in the Na…
Old Vic, London; Gate, LondonPerceptions are challenged in a new Ingmar Bergman adaptation and a state-of-the-world addressShould the theatre reflect the outside world, or be a refuge from i…
For years, Anna Barnes tried to get the media interested in a story of domestic violence. Now she's turned it into a playFor 90 minutes each night for the past few weeks, Emily Barclay has b…
Comic Louise Reay is being sued by her estranged husband for revealing details of their marital breakdown on stage. Kathy Griffin went into hiding after her Trump joke. But without artistic …
