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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Struggling theatres must 'programme their way out', says Young Vic director by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Nadia Fall calls for bold thinking as she announces new shows including anti-Trump version of Thelma & Louise Theatres facing financial difficulty can only prosper by "programming their …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Arts Council England must change or face 'disaster', culture department is told by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Margaret Hodge, who led report into arts funder, tells DCMS committee that grant recipients have lost confidence in the body Arts Council England requires a "radical" overhaul so it can to r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Conservative theatre-making will kill the UK industry, says National's director by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Indhu Rubasingham calls in Jennie Lee lecture for renewed commitment to creative risk and new writing The National Theatre's artistic director, Indhu Rubasingham, has said conservative theat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Letitia Wright, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Oh to star in National Theatre shows by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Lineup for 2026 includes a Molière adaptation and a mash-up of Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman Cate Blanchett, Sandra Oh and Letitia Wright will form part of the National Theatre's starry, fem…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AM[SHARE]
Friday, December 12, 2025

Barbican to close its doors for a year for multimillion-pound renovation by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

London site's theatre, music venue and galleries to close in June 2028, in first stage of upgrades before 50th anniversary The Barbican will close its doors for 12 months from June 2028 as i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Why a play about a fatal punch has gripped younger audiences and will tour schools by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

James Graham's play Punch touches on gang culture, restorative justice and masculinity in crisis, and for the playwright the true story was a privilege to tell When thousands of schoolchildr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]
Friday, December 5, 2025

From the Gruffalo to Dog Man: how to put children's classics on the stage by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

With Dog Man making his London theatre debut next summer, theatre makers explain how to make a successful jump from page to stage From Paddington and the BFG to The Gruffalo's Child, My Neig…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]

Barbican revamp to give 'bewildering' arts centre a new lease of life by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Project will make the famously confusing London landmark easier to navigate and more accessible "Everything leaks," says Philippa Simpson, the director of buildings and renewal at the Barbic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AM[SHARE]
Thursday, December 4, 2025

RSC to cut workforce by 11% as it faces 'perilous situation' by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Arts institution will also merge costume departments to be 'match fit' after funding cuts and soaring material costs The Royal Shakespeare Company has defended plans to reduce its workforce …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PM[SHARE]
Friday, November 28, 2025

'The new Hamilton'? Show with Mary Todd Lincoln as drunken first lady comes to London by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

The one-act play Oh, Mary! " 'the stupidest, funniest thing possible' " to open after blockbuster run in New York What if, in the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the firs…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM[SHARE]
Saturday, November 22, 2025

'The ad libs had us shaking behind the camera': Corbyn and McKellen cameos raise panto's profile by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Star turns are boosting ticket sales this season, including Islington show featuring MP's Wizard of Oz and Olivier winner's Toto We're a third of the way through the fabulously camp producti…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Making a drama about refugees could defuse anti-migrant anger in UK, says Jonathan Pryce by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Actor says 'people aren't aware of the facts' and the realities for people living in migrant hotels A compelling drama about refugees living in Britain could be one way to defuse the rising …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]
Friday, September 26, 2025

Unions urge UK theatres to limit at-seat alcohol sales as staff face 'unacceptable abuse' by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Rowdy audience members have disrupted performances with heckling, violence and even copulation in the stalls "Speak clearly and don't bump into the furniture" " so goes Noël Coward's time…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]
Friday, September 19, 2025

Southbank Centre to 'galvanise' nation with Festival of Britain celebration by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Danny Boyle will oversee youth culture event in May to mark 75th anniversary of postwar 'burst of colour' Danny Boyle will turn the Southbank Centre into a celebration of youth culture next …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]
Thursday, September 18, 2025

More than half of RSC staff urged to apply for voluntary redundancy by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Arts institution seeks to make 'urgent' savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m More than half of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staff are being encou…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

'They rewrite the ending': the knife crime play with its own outreach scheme by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE]
Friday, June 20, 2025

Pioneering London playwright decried gentrification of 'writer's paradise' by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community A groundbreaking Trinidadian-British playwright who paved the way for modern Bla…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Don't Cry for free outside theatre as Evita scene moved offstage in West End by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get live feed of Rachel Zegler singing from balcony to passersby Jamie Lloyd's production of Evita has been referred to as the hottest tic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Relief after 10 dance centres for children across England saved from cuts by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Campaigners including Arlene Phillips and Matthew Bourne welcome funding for National Dance CATs they say keeps art form from being preserve of elite Campaigners from the world of dance incl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays' Israel links by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel The playwright Caryl Churchill has pulled out of …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]

'We wanted to tell the wider story': play highlights impact of 'spycops' scandal by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Exclusive: Demand the Impossible interrogates police injustice and infiltration of 1,000 political groups There's one moment from the public inquiry into undercover police officers " known a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Labour plans risk excluding disabled people from workforce, say arts leaders by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme UK politics live " latest updates More than 2,500 figures from the arts incl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company's 'global' new season by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of 'a 21st-century RSC' Adrian Lester transforming into Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfred Enoch taking o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Ukraine war has reignited 'cold war strategies', says John le Carré's son by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End Russia's war in Ukraine has reignited "cold war strategies", according to the son…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Arts Council England a victim of 'London-centric' media coverage, CEO says by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Darren Henley says regional arts leaders do not have same newspaper coverage as those in the capital The chief executive of Arts Council England has launched an impassioned defence of the or…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Police called out after fight at Essex comedy gig by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Officers attended theatre in Southend after reports of altercation at end of Paul Chowdhry's show Police were called to a comedy show in Essex after a fight broke out in the audience, which …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 20, 2025

New play about impact of dementia on Black Britons can start 'conversation' by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Lynette Linton, outgoing creative director of Bush Theatre, hopes production will lead to people getting more support Part of the creative team behind a new play about the impact of dementia…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Review clearing Manchester's Royal Exchange of censorship criticised by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play's songs A review into the cancellation of a production of A Midsummer Night's Drea…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Arts sector's use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries Arts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

National Theatre to stage major work by 'forgotten' black British playwright by Lanre Bakare Arts and Culture Correspondent

Alterations, by Michael Abbensetts, follows a Guyanese tailor as he tries to establish himself on Carnaby Street The National Theatre's decision to stage a work by a "pioneering" and "forgot…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Royal Ballet school settles with former student over body shaming claim by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care The Royal Ballet school has reached a financial settlement with a former student who said the body sh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]

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Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off