Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Are you a titan of the theatre or have the fates abandoned you? As the Almeida puts on a festival inspired by Dionysus, test your knowledge of Greek dramaIn Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Clytemne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMMonday, February 1, 2016
Her champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain’s greatest living stage director – but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Her champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain’s greatest living stage director – but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMMonday, November 23, 2015
She satirised the 60s alongside Peter Cook and appeared onscreen in classics from Alfie to Women in Love. Bron talks Corbyn, ‘consorts’, and what the Beatles taught her about fameEleanor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Socialist, royalist, show-off, shy ... in life and in his fiction, Alan Bennett is a bundle of contradictions. He talks about the ‘totalitarian’ Tories, why he doesn’t go to the theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:57AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Usually I’m glad if Shakespeare is hot news. But the mania over the shifting of the ‘To be or not to be’ speech is just depressingCumberfever has reached critical levels, as previews f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43PMThursday, July 30, 2015
Robert Icke’s production of trilogy by Aeschylus is to open at Trafalgar Studios after causing a sensation with audiences who were gripped by its family dramaThe Oresteia – three hours a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMThursday, June 11, 2015
The Lindsay String Quartet leader introduced me to Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Shostakovich: precious indeed for a girl growing up in the PotteriesOn 29 May Peter Cropper died sud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Are you a titan of the theatre or have the fates abandoned you? As the Almeida puts on a festival inspired by Dionysus, test your knowledge of Greek drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Watching Alessandra Ferri in Wayne McGregor’s new Woolf Works was an out-of-joint experience – I didn’t know whether to feel old or youngThis week I went to the Royal Opera House to se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Royal Shakespeare Theatre will open after three and a half years with major facelift, better seating and more ladies' loos
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMCut some canny deals, fundraise like hell, share resources with others, and go for the bold, brave and new
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThe newly revamped Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is full of surprises, not least a certain inviting chair that is roving around the theatre's public spaces. When I sat on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMArtistic director Nicholas Hytner says only response to expected funding cuts is to be 'bullish in our programming'
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMI'm moving house - and staring my habit of amassing theatre, opera and concert programmes in the face
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
This year, three theatres will rework Aeschylus’s tragic trilogy about a family’s gory reckoning and the difficult birth of democracy in ancient Greece. Charlotte Higgins wonders why it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMFriday, May 1, 2015
A thrilling heroine who’s tough and a survivor. Sunset Song is should be embraced south of the border Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThursday, March 19, 2015
The London community has rallied round, and shows are going on. Even the theatre cat was found, hungry but healthy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
After 68 years, the Edinburgh international festival is finally embracing pop. Its new boss reveals why Franz Ferdinand and Sufjan Stevens will be rubbing shoulders with Lepage, McBurney –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:11AMFriday, March 6, 2015
Of all the artforms, theatre is the one most directly addressing our politics. From King Charles III and Posh to The Vote – to be staged on election night – this is a golden moment for p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
How do you breathe new life into an ancient Greek tragedy? If anyone can, then it’s Juliette Binoche and Ivo van Hove. The actor and the director talk to Charlotte Higgins about the person…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMSunday, December 14, 2014
After the Newcastle upon Tyne council leader dealt with cuts, the city’s theatre companies have been forced to adapt or die Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AMMonday, October 21, 2013
The past year has been transformative for Derry but many see a lack of vision and ambition as threatening its arts legacyFeargal Murray, musician and Derry man, was back in his home city to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Actors and staff greet news of appointment with standing ovation as departing head Sir Nicholas Hytner hails 'brilliant decision'When Rufus Norris's appointment to the most prominent job in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMNational Theatre announces that Rufus Norris will follow Nicholas Hytner as head of Britain's leading theatre companyRufus Norris, it was announced today, will follow in the footsteps of Lau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Library plans to auction Shakespeare's first four folios to raise £3-5m for research collectionA proposal by the library of the University of London to auction a rare set of early printed e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:41PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Head of Scottish National Theatre warns reduction in English arts funding will 'damage the DNA of the arts ecology' England risks a "talent drain" of artists taking advantage of a more welco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
After a string of sold-out performances at the Manchester international festival, Branagh will bring Macbeth to New YorkThe atmosphere was fraught and visceral, and audiences were so close t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Leaving Planet Earth, one of Edinburgh international festival's most ambitious productions, to take off in disused quarryScience fiction is usually the preserve of film, with the endless pos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMThursday, July 18, 2013
Richard Bean, who wrote One Man, Two Guvnors, is 'nearly ready' to deliver drama set in tabloid newsroomThe phone-hacking scandal is not short of drama: Rupert Murdoch smeared with shaving f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Royal's golden women to be reunited at other behemoth of the British classical dance sceneLast year, Tamara Rojo, the fiercely intelligent Spanish star of the Royal Ballet, jumped ship to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM 
