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Friday, June 29, 2012

Actors' union rallies theatres to enable more parts for women by Charlotte Higgins

Janet Suzman among high-profile thespians highlighting lack of opportunity that reflects wider imbalance in societyJanet Suzman is an actor who, by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PM
Friday, June 15, 2012

Michael Grandage brings five star-studded plays to West End by Charlotte Higgins

Grandage will direct Jude Law, Judi Dench, David Walliams, Daniel Radcliffe and many more at the Noel Coward theatreMichael Grandage, who for a decade led the pocket-size theatre the Donmar …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PM
Monday, June 11, 2012

Tony awards 2012: Drinks all round for the creators of Once by Charlotte Higgins

Once, a musical set in a pub audiences can drink at, cleaned up at the Tonys. Charlotte Higgins speaks to its writer Enda Walsh and director John TiffanyThe big upset of Sunday night's Tony …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

My favourite film: The Red Shoes by Charlotte Higgins

In our writers' favourite films series, Charlotte Higgins applauds a picture that jetés through the imagination's darkest recesses• Think you can post a better review of The Red Shoes? Th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Ruth Mackenzie: 'The London 2012 festival is going to be amazing' by Charlotte Higgins

Two years ago the Cultural Olympiad was floundering. Has new boss Ruth Mackenzie turned it around? She talks mass bell-ringing, Barenboim and beaches with Charlotte HigginsLast year, when Ru…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM
Friday, November 4, 2011

Ring the bell! Cultural Olympiad announces festival programme by Charlotte Higgins

The London 2012 festival, which will form the grand finale of the Cultural Olympiad, unveils countrywide programme of arts events from a bell-ringing flashmob to Cate Blanchett's return to t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:05AM
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

This week's arts diary by Charlotte Higgins

New artistic director at Scottish Ballet, a bilingual British actor on Broadway and one ballerina's perfumed role preparationNew artistic director for Scottish BalletAshley Page abruptly res…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Is Michael Grandage's 'disastrously dull' Don Giovanni for the Met as bad as all that? by Charlotte Higgins

Michael Grandage's production of Mozart's opera – his debut at the Metropolitan Opera – has had some stinking reviews in New York. What's happened to the golden boy of British theatre?Ou…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PM
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

This week's arts diary by Charlotte Higgins

A woman to lead the RSC, plus Shrigley's cookery opera, and a paratrooper targets Ed VaizeyA woman to lead the RSCThe theatre world is whirring with ideas about who should, or could, ta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM
Friday, October 14, 2011

RSC's artistic director Michael Boyd announces final curtain by Charlotte Higgins

Months after moving into renovated theatre, Boyd and executive director Vikki Heywood to stand down by the end of 2012, a 'planned and slow departure'The duo who have carried the Royal Shake…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Beyoncé pleasant but consumerist, says plagiarism row choreographer by Charlotte Higgins

Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker says Countdown video was influenced by her work but 'has no edge'An avant-garde choreographer who has accused Beyoncé of plagiarising her dance moves for her late…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

This week's arts diary by Charlotte Higgins

This week, news of the quintessential American museum, is the Duchess of Cambridge art smart and politicians in the stallsWashington's newest museumA momentous event occurs in Washington DC …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

This week's arts diary by Charlotte Higgins

This week Rachel Whiteread scupts for Britain, put your name down for Olympic posters, Shechter and Gormley unite and Geoff Dyer fawnsWhiteread comes homeRachel Whiteread's most famous sculp…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02PM
Friday, August 19, 2011

Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation by Charlotte Higgins

Playwright's biographer, Christopher Bigsby, defends work produced in later years at Edinburgh book festivalWhen dramatist Arthur Miller died in 2005, the Wall Street Journal obituary was he…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:17PM
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Crunch time at the Edinburgh festival: audiences step up to shred cash by Charlotte Higgins

One-man fringe show invites people to feed their own cash through shredder to 'release them from the terrors of the financial system'Some shows at the Edinburgh festival are daylight robbery…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PM
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Art on the fringe: intimate performances at the Edinburgh festival by Charlotte Higgins

Artist Adrian Howells explores loneliness and intimacy in new show May I Have The Pleasure?Performance artist Adrian Howells is bringing a particularly intimate piece to the Edinburgh fringe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM
Friday, August 12, 2011

Has youth theatre come of age? by Charlotte Higgins

Junction 25's show for the Edinburgh festival fringe could not be more grown-upIn my 10 days at the Edinburgh festival fringe, there are two shows that have moved me to tears. They are David…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh by Charlotte Higgins

Edinburgh stalwart Shappi Khorsandi has endured exile, OCD, racial abuse and death threats on her family. And she just keeps pouring it into her standupIt is fitting that Iranian-born comedi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PM
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Zinnie Harris: Next stop Nam by Charlotte Higgins

In Zinnie Harris's new play, a girl pursues her father through wars ancient and modern. Charlotte Higgins hears why she thinks it's a turning pointZinnie Harris is standing on the landi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PM

Radio hit Ed Reardon makes stage debut in Edinburgh by Charlotte Higgins

Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds's comedy creation steps out of the radio and on to the stage for the first timeHe is the malcontent freelance writer whose stock-in-trade hackwork inc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AM

Is intimate theatre 'decadent'? by Charlotte Higgins

It is, in these austere times, argues playwright David GreigAfter a panel discussion between fringe playwrights David Greig, Zinnie Harris and Lynda Radley yesterday at the Traverse in Edinb…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AM
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Nutshell Theatre's Allotment: Bring your own veg to the show that's a grower by Charlotte Higgins

Not many Edinburgh shows kick off with you being handed a steaming hot cuppa and a freshly baked scone smeared with homemade damson jam. Nor do you often see other members of the audience be…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46PM

Simon Callow leaves familiar territory behind in one-man Edinburgh show by Charlotte Higgins

The eminent actor's fringe show, which deals with transgender issues, is a departure from his usual stage interpretations"High heels!" exclaimed Simon Callow, as, a little sore-footed, he sp…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM
Friday, August 5, 2011

Dance Marathon aims to exhaust Edinburgh festivalgoers by Charlotte Higgins

Participatory show inspired by Great Depression dance-offs is eagerly anticipated highlight of festival fringeMany things have been asked of audiences to the Edinburgh festival fringe. Recen…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PM
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Cannes 2011: Neil LaBute turns his macabre hand to Agatha Christie by Charlotte Higgins

American director promises 'a good romp and a cracking yarn' in film version of The Crooked HouseNeil LaBute has carved a career from seriously disturbing plays and films – In the Company …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Arts Council England funding cuts – the great axe falls by Charlotte Higgins

More than 200 organisations lose support on 'agonising' day of 15% cuts to the arts – but those who win, win bigLive blog - culture cutsIt is a day of radically mixed fortunes for the arts…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM
Friday, March 25, 2011

Arts cuts prompt stage stars' appeal to prime minister by Charlotte Higgins

Sir Richard Eyre, Tony Hall and Jude Kelly warn of lasting damage likely to result from curtailed government spendingLeading figures from the arts have written to the prime minister asking h…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59PM
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Björk and Damon Albarn lead stellar lineup at Manchester international festival by Charlotte Higgins

The Icelandic singer announces a new multimedia project and three-week residency while Albarn debuts a new work about an Elizabethan scientistThe great Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk wil…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PM
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

This week's arts diary by Charlotte Higgins

David Mitchell's new opera, Guardian hack Tom Service's new career, and the Theatre Uncut guide to making drama out of a crisisA novel approach to opera There's a school of thought that says…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PM
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

This week's art diary by Charlotte Higgins

Alice leads the end-of-an-era productions, judging the Art Fund Museums prize, and the Forest Fringe's search for a new homeEnd of an era for blockbuster stage spectaclesWhat an incredible f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM
Friday, February 25, 2011

The big grapple: New York daredevil artists' works come to London by Charlotte Higgins

Exhibition honours works of Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark and Trisha Brown on the roofs of 1970s ManhattanThe city is in the midst of a recession. Public services have been ground down…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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