Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Season comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest to be staged at 420-seat venue next to King’s Cross stationThe Donmar Warehouse is building a temporary theatre for an all-female …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
Talented Mr Ripley actor to join forces with Belgian director next year in Barbican production of 1943 filmJude Law is to return to the London theatre in an adaptation of the Luchino Viscont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01AMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Star Wars actor to play Georg Büchner’s barber in theatre’s new season, which also features Glenda Jackson as King LearJohn Boyega is temporarily hanging up his lightsaber and will, pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMSunday, April 17, 2016
Daniel Evans says theatre has long way to go; proportion of minority workers in the arts fails to match ratio in overall populationBritish theatre has a long way to go to tackle inequality, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Thomas Adès’s opera of Exterminating Angel among new season highlights, as well as Anna Netrebko tackling Norma and Jonas Kaufmann singing OtelloAn opera based on Buñuel’s surreal film…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM2016 festival lineup includes The Good Wife actor, who last graced EIF in The Bacchae in 2007, presenting Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs Alan Cumming will this summer make a return to the Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMTuesday, April 5, 2016
Actor plays a rich, entitled narcissist in his own play transferring from off-Broadway to London’s Trafalgar StudiosJesse Eisenberg is to make his British theatre debut in his own play in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40PMChoreographer says show based on 1948 film – a Broadway version of which flopped – will be his love letter to the theatreIt is some people’s favourite movie but the stage version was o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMFriday, April 1, 2016
Almeida Theatre announces 2016-17 schedule with Scott – Moriarty in Sherlock – taking on Shakespeare’s toughest roleAfter Sherlock Holmes as Hamlet, now Moriarty will take on the part.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, March 23, 2016
Main aim of first white paper on culture in more than 50 years is to improve access for people of all backgrounds, Ed Vaizey saysAny arts organisation that receives public money will have to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Sir Thomas More script is only surviving copy of a play in the bard’s hand and is one of 300 texts being digitised in run-up to British Library exhibitionThe last surviving play script han…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Along with Hare on Osborne, Arts Theatre season includes Alistair Beaton play about a plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn A new play by David Hare imagining George Osborne having a crisis of confiden…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, February 21, 2016
Fans cock a snook at critics with four gongs including best actor at only theatre awards voted for entirely by the publicIt was not universally adored by critics, but Benedict Cumberbatch’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:52PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Fracked! Or: Please Don’t Use the F-Word, by Alistair Beaton, to debut as part of final season at Chichester Festival theatreAnne Reid and James Bolam are to star as unlikely anti-fracking…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Former cabaret star will play Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s GlobeEmma Rice’s appointment at Shakespeare’s Globe was always going to shake things up so her fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:56PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
Gough says she was broke before she got role as recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places & Things that won her best actress awardIt was called “career-changing”, “a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMThursday, January 21, 2016
From a variety show hosted by David Tennant to comedy shows and film adaptions, BBC festival marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathA variety show live from Stratford-upon-Avon and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMWednesday, January 6, 2016
Thiarai, from Doncaster’s Cast venue, is succeeding John McGrath, who has been appointed artistic director of Manchester international festival Kully Thiarai has been named artistic direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AMThiarai, from Doncaster’s Cast venue, is succeeding John McGrath, who has been appointed artistic director of Manchester international festival Kully Thiarai has been named artistic direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
New artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre aims to get much greater proportion of women on the stageThe fact that just 16% of Shakespeare’s characters are women – and that mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
2016 will see the venue become the only theatre in the English-speaking world to reach the age of 250 yearsFrom its illegal origins to surviving numerous closure threats to avoiding Luftwaff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Beyond the Fence, the story of a family at Greenham Common, will incorporate machine-generated plot and musicThey have become brilliant at chess, had music performed by one of the world’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46AMSunday, November 22, 2015
Portrayal of the overlooked DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin wins best actress prize at London Evening Standard theatre awardsNicole Kidman’s triumphant return to the West End stage for the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Royal Ballet lead and ‘bad boy of ballet’ end relationship rumours as they announce contemporary performance in next year’s Sadler’s Wells programme Two of classical ballet’s super…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Actor first played early Hollywood star Norma Desmond in Lloyd Webber musical in LA during 1990s and is excited to reprise role in London’s West EndDelusional silent-movie star Norma Desmo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Theatre’s birthday celebrations open with Escaped Alone, featuring women in their sixties discussing the personal and the epicA new play by Caryl Churchill that has four lead roles for wom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Actor to celebrate music of her youth with cover versions of new wave bands, in all-singing no-speaking London theatre show called If You Kiss Me, Kiss MeJane Horrocks is to celebrate the po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Theatre to celebrate 250th birthday with plays from four centuries including Eugene O’Neill classic directed by Richard Eyre Britain’s oldest working theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, is to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Production has run for seven years and has made the NT £13.5m, but director Rufus Norris says it is time to put it out to pastureThe National Theatre’s wildly successful West End producti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46PMThursday, September 10, 2015
The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet and The Entertainer will be shown on 1,300 screens, including more than 500 in UK Kenneth Branagh’s productions of The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Jul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22PMMonday, September 7, 2015
Actor says she took on role in new play about DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin in part as a tribute to her scientist fatherNicole Kidman has spoken of her intense nerves as she took to the stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AM 
