Tuesday, October 15, 2013
National Theatre announces that Rufus Norris will follow Nicholas Hytner as head of Britain's leading theatre companyRufus Norris, it was announced today, will follow in the footsteps of Lau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Library plans to auction Shakespeare's first four folios to raise £3-5m for research collectionA proposal by the library of the University of London to auction a rare set of early printed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Head of Scottish National Theatre warns reduction in English arts funding will 'damage the DNA of the arts ecology' England risks a "talent drain" of artists taking advantage of a more welco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
After a string of sold-out performances at the Manchester international festival, Branagh will bring Macbeth to New YorkThe atmosphere was fraught and visceral, and audiences were so close t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2013
Leaving Planet Earth, one of Edinburgh international festival's most ambitious productions, to take off in disused quarryScience fiction is usually the preserve of film, with the endless pos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
Richard Bean, who wrote One Man, Two Guvnors, is 'nearly ready' to deliver drama set in tabloid newsroomThe phone-hacking scandal is not short of drama: Rupert Murdoch smeared with shaving f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
Royal's golden women to be reunited at other behemoth of the British classical dance sceneLast year, Tamara Rojo, the fiercely intelligent Spanish star of the Royal Ballet, jumped ship to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
Abi Morgan's play The Mistress Contracts, based on 40 years of transcripts charting a real-life affair, will feature in Vicky Featherstone's first season as artistic directorAbi Morgan, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
Fergus Linehan, a former director of the Sydney festival, is to take over the Edinburgh international festivalFor the second time in a row, the Edinburgh international festival has looked to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
'Surprise theatre', nightly soap opera, readings by authors and children's week planned under new artistic directorThe Royal Court, Britain's most important theatre for new drama, which has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
Open letter calls on Ed Vaizey to respond to report showing evidence that British theatre is hurting as a result of funding cutsLuminaries of the theatre, including playwrights Sir Tom Stopp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Director credited with giving National Theatre a golden decade of hits will leave along with closest colleague Nick StarrSir Nicholas Hytner, who has presided over what has been, by near uni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Alex Beard helped build Tate Modern, but has never worked in opera or dance. Now he is to take on one of Britain's most prominent arts jobs " boss of the Royal Opera HouseAlex Beard, deputy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
The team behind international hit War Horse are doing A Midsummer Night's Dream " with actors, puppets and flying gardening tools. Charlotte Higgins goes behind the scenes at rehearsalsTom M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Programme for May's three-week arts celebration " released today " will feature Emil and the Detectives, Judith Kerr and Michael Rosen's orchestral work for kids, The Great EnormoEmil and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:57AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
English theatre study claims Arts Council cuts mean cancelled shows, fewer new plays, fewer commissions and smaller castsThe English theatre scene is "shrivelling", according to new research…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Highlights include a BBC2 gala night, a musical by Tori Amos, and an ambitious revival of a four-hour Eugene O'Neill epicAnne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
The show Praxis Makes Perfect will open in May in a secret location in Cardiff and then pop up at music festivals around UKThey have staged Aeschylus in the Brecon Beacons, and transformed t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Versatile musician was equally at home writing jazz and film scores as music for the concert hall
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
An all-female Julius Caesar has just hit the stage, but it's a rarity in theatre. In a special report, Charlotte Higgins asks leading figures why women are still underrepresented at every le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM[SHARE]An all-female Julius Caesar has just hit the stage, but it's a rarity in theatre. In a special report, Charlotte Higgins asks leading figures why women are still underrepresented at every le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM[SHARE]Only one in three actors, writers and artistic directors are women " and only a quarter of directors, Guardian research showsWomen buy more theatre tickets than men but are consistently unde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2012
George Osborne, the chancellor, has announced in his autumn statement that Whitehall departments are to cut budgets by 1% this year and 2% next yearThe key point in George Osborne's autumn s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
Nicholas Hytner has had a phenomenally successful run at the helm of the National Theatre, this week picking up an armful of awards. But it's his outspoken attack on the government over the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2012
When Tony Hall was appointed chief executive of the Royal Opera House, his name came as a bolt out of the blue. Will his successor be equally unlikely: or will he or she be one of the usual …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
The cast and director of a new Donmar Warehouse show tell Charlotte Higgins what a thrilling and liberating experience it has been tackling one of Shakespeare's great worksOn a table in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
National Theatre's Nicholas Hytner joins in condemnation of Tories' stance on the arts at conference on regional theatreTwo leading lights of Britain's cultural life " Danny Boyle, who direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Manchester festival has honour of actor's first Shakespeare role in 10 years in 'immersive' staging within deconsecrated churchUnless you count his performance of "the isle is full of noises…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Playwright's piece laments nation turned into 'captive market' where public life exhibits a 'diminution of magnanimity'Plays by Alan Bennett are an event: sold out months ahead and their sub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 7, 2012
Tom Morris co-directed the play with that giant horse. Now he is tackling A Midsummer Night's DreamLast week Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National theatre, made a joke, in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2012
Nicholas Hytner says National's recent high earnings have relied on spate of successful West End transfers, such as War HorseThe National Theatre is celebrating what artistic director Nichol…
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