Monday, September 13, 2021
London academy reports on inquiry into complaints about former director Sarah Frankcom
An investigation into complaints made against the former head of the UK’s oldest drama school has rep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Sarah Frankcom to depart as director of UK’s leading drama school after less than two years in the role
The head of one of the UK’s leading drama schools is leaving her job at the same t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMSunday, July 18, 2021
Steven Berkoff and Emmanuella Cole will not be part of production when it opens on Monday
An age- and gender-blind production of Hamlet starring Sir Ian McKellen will open this week without …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMMonday, July 5, 2021
After plays about Bloody Sunday and Stephen Lawrence, award-winning pair tackle deadly blaze
The scandal and tragedy of Grenfell Tower, the deadliest fire in a residential building in Britai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMThursday, June 10, 2021
The Guardian given preview of teams making props and costumes for The Comedy of Errors
“This is the first time I’ve had natural light in 32 years,” said Alan Smith as he contemplated t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMFriday, June 4, 2021
Part game, part moral debate, the show brings together a group of strangers to decide one person’s fate
Would you give £240 to: the first homeless person you saw; a mass pizza delivery fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMReopening plans include a musical based on Sleeping Beauty and a play telling the story of Gandhi’s killer
At least a third of new work supported by the National Theatre will in future com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, May 21, 2021
Mantel had to collaborate remotely with actor Ben Miles to transform latest book into stage production
Yes they are fiction and yes historians get irritated that students read them as incont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Three teams of four puppeteers will accompany Little Amal from Turkey to Manchester to celebrate refugees
A giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl is to “walk” from Turkey t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, May 6, 2021
Kwame Kwei-Armah says theatre can never go back to being something that can only be experienced by physically being there
The Young Vic plans to livestream all of its future productions, its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Shriti Vadera, former chair of Santander UK, was once known as Gordon Brown’s ‘representative on earth’
A banker and former adviser to Gordon Brown who was jokingly known as his “rep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMFriday, April 23, 2021
Updated union guidelines say writers should guard against unconscious bias and consider race in reviews
Theatre critics need to think harder about whether their own ethnicity and relative pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Temporary performance space will be ‘symbol of regeneration’ and stepping stone to return indoors
Designs have been revealed for a temporary outdoor performance space on the banks of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
Birmingham Rep says premiere of Coming to England will be highlight of forthcoming season
Former children’s television presenter Floella Benjamin’s childhood memoir describing her journe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMMonday, April 19, 2021
Exasperated satirical poem pours scorn on PM described as ‘dogmeat wrapped in the union flag’
David Hare has channelled Jonathan Swift to write a furious, exasperated satirical poem pour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMWednesday, March 24, 2021
Social distancing plans include plays without intervals – as they were written, artistic director says
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Shakespeare’s Glo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMA celebration of British weather and a grow-your-own food initiative will be among the festivities
A celebration of the British weather and the largest grow-your-own food project of modern t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMSunday, January 10, 2021
London based Magic Circle’s event, streamed on Facebook, will feature David Copperfield, Debbie McGee and more
One hundred years ago next weekend, an English magician called Percy Thomas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThursday, December 31, 2020
Writer says singer’s cancelled farewell tour resulted in ‘real progress’ on stage project
For writer James Graham, one plus side from the grind of 2020 was being able to work with Elt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Strictly winner and comedian, 55, hopes he will be inspiration to ‘self-conscious blokes of my vintage’
Dance schools are expecting to see an increase in men of a certain age signing up …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMFriday, December 11, 2020
New government loans welcomed by National Theatre as ‘a vital lifeline that will form part of our recovery’
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More than £…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
Service will cost £9.98 a month or £5.99-£7.99 a play and will add much-needed revenue
Helen Mirren in Phèdre, Adrian Lester in Othello and Billie Piper in Yerma are to be made available…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMClint Dyer fears industry efforts may not include recognition and compensation for the past
British theatre is trying to get its house in order when it comes to diversity, but the director o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMMonday, November 2, 2020
Show would be most ambitious and complicated yet attempted during Covid pandemic in UK
The Old Vic is planning to stage the most ambitious and complicated piece of livestreamed UK theatre ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, September 23, 2020
Performance involving full company will feature duets thanks to couples in bubbles
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One of the largest dance performances to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMThursday, September 3, 2020
If planes and cinemas can be Covid-19 safe, so can theatres, says Only Fools and Horses actor
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Cast and crew members from one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMMonday, August 17, 2020
Union Bectu said 185 jobs will go at Cameron Mackintosh Ltd and 669 at Delfont Mackintosh
Redundancies at theatre companies owned by the leading west end producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMSunday, August 16, 2020
Les Misérables producer latest to announce job losses as industry struggles to weather Covid-19
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Sir Cameron Mackintosh, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Amazon Prime Video to give $6m to support arts production community through Covid crisis
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMMonday, August 10, 2020
Monologue starring Ralph Fiennes to be part of Bridge theatre’s reopening schedule
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David Hare’s experience of being sick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, August 4, 2020
New leader of British Asian company Tara Arts says focus on cultural ‘crown jewels’ could mean missed opportunity
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The ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM 
