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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]Thursday, June 4, 2026
New York audiences were asked to put phones in sealed pouches, and producer says she hopes to do the same in UKWhen a Pulitzer prize-winning play about a feminist activist opened in New York…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PM[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]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]Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Arts Council England must remain free from interference to ensure artistic freedom, says report by Labour peer
Arts Council England needs to scrap its flagship strategy, ensure that arts fun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[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]Friday, December 5, 2025
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]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 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, September 2, 2025
When Inua Ellams, writer of Barber Shop Chronicles, went to Lagos, he became aware of how much fraud suffused the city " so he decided to tell the story of its cons
Inua Ellams was walking t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[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]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]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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2025
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
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]Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Oscar-nominated actor says she has had to compromise because of dearth of complex roles in UK and Hollywood
Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said there is still "a dearth of grea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Anti-corruption champion to examine Arts Council England projects and lack of facilities in some areas of country
Margaret Hodge will oversee a review into regional inequality in the arts af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Goold says he is seeking new challenge after more than decade in charge at the Almeida theatre
Rupert Goold is leaving the Almeida theatre after more than a decade in charge to take over at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2024
Other plays to feature include a production of Sarah Kane's final work and a saga involving a British Museum artefact
A new Robert Icke drama about the hunt for Raoul Moat, a revival of Sara…
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