Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Three-time Olivier winner to play general viewed through ‘urgent new lens’ of misogynoir in futuristic productionThe Royal Shakespeare Company has cast Sharon D Clarke as a black lesbian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2026
James Bond actor, who is only the second non-royal woman to be celebrated in this way, called the honour ‘truly overwhelming’Dame Judi Dench is to have a West End theatre renamed after h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM[SHARE]Play at Gillian Lynne theatre in London will cycle through versions with weekend crowds able to pick oneIn keeping with its well-earned reputation for cloak and dagger, the stage adaptation …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 15, 2026
The Standard of Living by James Graham traces economist’s influence on British politics and cultureAfter exploring the rise of Rupert Murdoch and the emergence of Gareth Southgate’s Engl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Audience members said baby’s cooing and gurgling ruined Branagh’s return to the RSC after 30 years, with some seeking refundsBoatswain! The opening scene of Shakespeare’s seminal play …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2026
London’s biggest productions could be hit if industrial action over pay and conditions goes ahead, says unionSome of the biggest West End shows could be forced to temporarily close during …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]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
National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme
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More than 2,500 figures from the arts incl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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
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
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…
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