Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Donmar Warehouse denies it is pandering to easily offended by listing disturbing content
Theatre audiences are used to being warned about nudity and violence when booking tickets, as well as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMTree is billed as a collaboration between Elba and director Kwame Kwei-Armah
Two writers claim they were removed from a high-profile theatre production about to open at the Manchester intern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Playwright will return to West End with Leopoldstadt, based in old Jewish quarter of Vienna
Tom Stoppard, whose four Jewish grandparents and much of his family from his parents’ generatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Impresario hopes Mountview Academy donation will help prove ‘you don’t have to be posh’ to get on in theatre
Sir Cameron Mackintosh has given £1m to help one of the UK’s most divers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Hadestown musical lands 14 nominations after Broadway transfer from London
Jez Butterworth’s Troubles-set family drama The Ferryman has soared high in the US’s most important theatre awa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMPair to star in two-hander Lungs as theatre also reveals a Beckett double bill with Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming
Claire Foy and Matt Smith, who starred as the Queen and Prince Philip i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, April 19, 2019
Coach & Horses pub to host new version of play based on ‘brilliantly funny, sour’ journalist
The journalist Jeffrey Bernard would wake up, smoke in bed for 30 minutes “contemplatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Exclusive: American standing down in summer to concentrate on directing opera and theatre
Daniel Kramer, the artistic director of English National Opera, is quitting his job after less than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMFriday, April 12, 2019
Sean Foley directs story of chemist who invents a fabric that never fades, angering mill owners
A 1950s Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a brilliant chemist whose invention pits him a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Tommy Cooper’s fez and Paul Daniels’ saw-in-half box part of display at Wellcome Collection
Tommy Cooper’s fez, a gorilla mask used by Derren Brown and a wooden box and saw that Paul …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Michael Longhurst says first season includes 1994 play that ‘speaks entirely to our times’
There was no avoiding it, the incoming boss of the Donmar Warehouse said, his first play in cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMurder mystery will have a different guest actor each night being fed lines by earpiece
Actors including Gillian Anderson, Joanna Lumley, Meera Syal, Jim Broadbent and Damian Lewis are to ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead will open at Manchester international festival
A four-hour play based on one of the few novels Donald Trump has enjoyed and admir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:59AMMagic Goes Wrong has been co-written with magicians Penn & Teller
There has been a creaky murder mystery that went wrong, a catastrophic Peter Pan and a chaotic A Christmas Carol. Next w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Winning musicals also earn their lead actors prizes, while Company and The Inheritance also among winners
Hamilton was the biggest winner at the only major theatre awards decided by the publ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Arts Council England report says progress is slow and Michael Buffong asks ‘Why?’Talented black actors, writers and artists are sill being kept out of the arts because of “painfully”…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Kate Prince’s ZooNation commissioned to create ‘uplifting story’ called Message in a BottleIt is not, for some music lovers, the most obvious material for a hip-hop dance show, but the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, January 25, 2019
Mischief Theatre to start year-long residency giving it plays running at three venues at onceA theatre company that just six years ago consisted of a bunch of struggling actors playing to sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Cuban superstar says he wants to expand repertoire and reach out to more diverse audiencesCarlos Acosta, the ballet superstar considered one of the greatest dancers of all time, is to take c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMDancer withdrawn from Swan Lake after he posted series of sexist comments on InstagramSergei Polunin, the Royal Ballet-trained dancer who revels in a “bad boy of ballet” reputation, has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Steve Tompkins tops list for projects such as Battersea Arts Centre and Bristol Old VicAn architect described as a 21st-century Frank Matcham – the legendary designer of the London Palladi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMSunday, December 30, 2018
From opera to bus stop signs, Insiders/Outsiders will tell the stories of arts figures who fled NazisThey are far from household names but perhaps should be: Fritz Busch, Carl Ebert and Rudo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Top seats up to £117.52 average – Hamilton leading at £250 – while cheapest fall to £19.31Top end ticket prices for West End shows have risen by 19% to an average of £117.52, with Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
More than 90 venues including National Theatre sign up to trade union initiative More than 90 UK theatres have signed up to a trade union initiative seen as the largest effort yet to tackle …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Duo triumph for performances in Antony and Cleopatra, as Hamilton and Company also land prizesRalph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo’s dazzling performances as Antony and Cleopatra at the Nation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Considered one of playwright’s greatest works, it will run in London next yearTom Hiddleston is to return to the London stage in a new production of Betrayal, considered one of Harold Pint…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, November 8, 2018
Company head explains decision to give job to man with white parents who identifies as blackThe theatre company which gave a job targeted at ethnic minorities to a man who identifies as blac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Sir Nicholas Hytner says council cuts and sidelining of subjects at school add to crisisSir Nicholas Hytner has delivered alarming warnings about the health of British arts and culture amid …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
National Theatre director says Windrush scandal and Brexit makes the production timelyAndrea Levy’s celebrated novel Small Island is to be staged next year by the National Theatre, a produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, September 21, 2018
Ivo van Hove directs adaptation of Bette Davis-propelled Hollywood classicGillian Anderson is to play a role made famous by Bette Davis when she takes the lead in a West End stage adaptation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Royal Shakespeare Company to assemble consciously diverse cast for season of three playsThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to choose actors for its 2019 summer season who reflect the nation in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM 
