35,751 stories from The Guardian
Julia Pascal made reference to Arnold Wesker's short spell at the London School of Film Technique (Obituary, 14 April). In a letter he sent me in 1968 he announced "the greatest impact came …
Nottingham PlayhouseEverything is in its right place in Blanche McIntyre's good-natured take on Michael Frayn's quintessential meta-farceNicholas Hytner encapsulated the essence of farce whe…
Court rules Mariafrancesca Garritano was fired unfairly for claiming dance school was responsible for young dancers' anorexiaItaly's top court has ordered the rehiring of a La Scala ballerin…
Pontins Holiday Park, PrestatynDespite organisational problems, acts such as the Fall, Roky Erickson, Sleaford Mods and Ex-Easter Island Head made the seaside festival the place to be for fa…
Salisbury PlayhouseThe rural touring company Pentabus consider our evolving relationship to the land " and how fracking can damage more than just the landscape Bea and Joseph have moved with…
The singer and West End star is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm onwards on Thursday 21 April " post them in the comments below 10.46am BST Beverley Knight's fi…
Jonathan Pryce had never seen Hamlet on stage " and thought Olivier's film version was mannered. But the violent death of his father prompted him to take on the Dane, and radically rethink t…
Hugh Bonneville stars in An Enemy of the People in Chichester and Ivo Van Hove returns to the Barbican " plus the rest of the week's best theatre The 2016 Chichester season begins with Stile…
Daniel Evans says theatre has long way to go; proportion of minority workers in the arts fails to match ratio in overall populationBritish theatre has a long way to go to tackle inequality, …
David Harewood, Zoe Wanamaker and others attack new syllabuses that let pupils analyse a digital recording insteadSome of Britain's top actors have attacked new GCSE drama courses that do no…
As a Renaissance scholar, I've been piecing together fragments of a play believed to be part-written by Shakespeare. Now the results are about to go on showIn the spring of 1613, the office …
Curve, LeicesterColonialism, class and family fall under the spotlight as Asian and British soldiers take refuge in a barn during the first world warLand takes on many meanings in Ishy Din's…
Thinker, lover, father, King's man … to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, great writers explore different sides of Shakespeare. Beginning a week-long series, James Shapiro re…
Temporary theatre at the National, LondonDrawing on interviews and first-hand accounts, Gillian Slovo's enlightening play puts the rise of Isis, and its appeal to young Europeans, in context…
The theatre director on Tacita Dean, Happy Valley, Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone, Penelope Fitzgerald and a remarkable documentaryKatie Mitchell was born in 1964 and raised in Berkshire. S…
Sadler's Wells, LondonEnglish National Ballet's new triple bill shakes up the status quo, with a little help from Frida Kahlo and MedeaThe tone is set for English National Ballet's new progr…
The Observer's theatre critic remembers one of Britain's most influential playwrights of the postwar yearsArnold Wesker, who died on 12 April at the age of 83, was one of the male playwright…
Royal Court theatre, LondonDavid Ireland's shocking new play balances humour and horror, with Stephen Rea superb as an Ulster loyalist suspicious of his 'Fenian' baby granddaughterSome plays…
Almeida, LondonLeo Butler's fine new play brings teeming London on to the stage, with help from a set design that's practically installation artLondon in 2016 has made it on to the stage. Vi…
Craig Taylor's snapshots of everyday situations shouldn't work as drama but they do " and brilliantlyDid you ever have to do that experiment at school where you watched crystals form in a sa…
Curve, LeicesterIshy Din's first world war drama adeptly tackles class, race and colonialism through the moving story of Khudadad KhanKhudadad Khan was the first Asian soldier to be awarded …
Archaeologists unearth enormous 2,000-year-old auditorium " the first of its kind in UK " in hillside near FavershamRemains of a huge, 2,000-year-old Roman theatre, thought to be the first o…
Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese speaks to Sarfraz Manzoor about her profession. How did she get into striptease? What are her views on glamour and on artificial beauty? What does she represe…
Playwright says the craft is being damaged by focus on selling seatsSir David Hare has warned that an obsession with box-office success is having a detrimental effect on British theatre and …
Michael Rooney, son of child star Mickey, tells Emma Brockes the shocking story of his pastBefore meeting him, all I know about Michael Rooney is that his father is former child star Mickey …
