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Tanika Gupta and Maxine Peake are among the judges for a £12,000 prize for female playwrights. The Women's Prize for Playwriting is
New works by Chinonyerem Odimba, Chris Bush, Chloë Moss and Charlotte Josephine will feature as part of Paines Plough's latest season. This
At this year's BITEF, Belgrade's festival of international theatre, I found myself watching Sebastijan Horvat's staging of the Fassbinder's 1974 film Ali:
Playwright Peter Nichols died last month, aged 92. He'll be remembered for many things, but chiefly for A Day in the Death
Mám opens with low-hanging clouds of smoke hanging over the stage and extending into the auditorium. With them comes a smell, a
Bush Theatre artistic director Lynette Linton, actor Andrew Scott and director Marianne Elliott have been named as among London's top theatre people,
Tom Bateman is to star as Coriolanus in Sheffield Theatres' new season, which also includes Bryony Lavery's new adaptation of Oliver Twist. The new
US writer Eleanor Burgess' play The Niceties is a dense, talky two-hander that sets out to explore some meaty questions about race
This week The Old Vic has announced that it has scrapped single-sex toilets in favour of facilities for those of all gender
Shell's membership of the National Theatre will come to an end next year, as the arts organisation unveils an accelerated goal of
Miles Jupp is to make his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as part of a season that also features a programme exploring the
The wheels of cultural change grind slowly. While theatres are making headway in addressing historical inequities regarding gender, race, ethnicity, disability and
An immersive production of The Wolf of Wall Street has extended its preview period and moved the date of its opening night
To work with older generations can often be seen as a bit of a challenge by arts organisations. Arts Council England has
Every relationship, from the briefest fling to the longest marriage, comes with expectations attached. Gently interrogating the impact of gender roles and
Hackney Empire's artistic director has taken aim at the "pathetic" pace of change around representation in British theatre, as he reveals his
A mysterious portrait of English actor Henry Irving is going up for auction later this month. The painting, a direct copy of
A theatre in Eastbourne that was closed indefinitely after safeguarding concerns is to reopen with a new operator. The former Under Ground
Behind the scenes images of London theatres will feature in a new book co-written by actor Simon Callow and photographer Derry Moore.
As a playful Brechtian parable, Theatre Centre's The Border wears its serious side lightly as knockabout cartoon-style antics break out into an
Hannah Lavery's dad died in 2014. He was a Hibs fan " the product of a sprawling lineage that stretched from West
If there's some revelatory ur-production of Assassins that makes sense of its messiness and its flaws, we're yet to see it. It's
The Young Vic is relaunching the network at the heart of its emerging directors' programme to improve the opportunities it offers around
Yaël Farber, Anthony Neilson, Kathy Burke and Terry Johnson will direct work at the Boulevard Theatre next year as part of its
Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus has claimed the social value of theatre has been restored as crucial to the industry's overall
