Sunday, February 21, 2021
The Cuban star talks about his battle to lift spirits at the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the film he has made to rally performers as their stages stay dark
When Carlos Acosta, considered one…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, January 24, 2021
Songs from the composer’s doomed show about the Israeli stateswoman will make their debut online
The self-taught musical genius Lionel Bart was the Londoner who first successfully challen…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36AMMonday, January 4, 2021
As Zoom fatigue sets in, organisations are seeking creative ways to bring art to patrons to keep them – and their wallets – engaged
A concert from your favourite opera singer, delivered …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48AMSaturday, September 5, 2020
The award-winning performance artist tells why she has penned a libretto starring single mums for a new BBC documentary
Bryony Kimmings, the award-winning British performer behind a success…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMSaturday, August 15, 2020
Playwright and director says BLM and the lockdown have prompted him to stage a financially risky season of black work
British culture has been guilty of “hoodwinking” black people into t…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, July 12, 2020
Communities secretary announces new planning rules forcing councils to take impact of Covid-19 into account
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Linked From The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Britain’s most prolific playwright is producing and acting in his own audio play, but he holds out little hope for live theatre in the short term
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain’s mos…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, April 19, 2020
The star speaks of his panic about the uncertainty of reopening and his sorrow for struggling young actors
Simon Russell Beale, one of Britain’s leading Shakespearean actors, has spoken of…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42AMSaturday, March 28, 2020
Acclaimed productions will be available to watch on Guardian site as coronavirus outbreak continues
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Linked From The Guardian at 02:54PMSunday, March 8, 2020
Many black actors leave Britain to find fame, but the Londoner’s BBC lead role follows years of acclaimed work on stage and screen Related: Noughts & Crosses author hits back at race-b…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, February 9, 2020
The acclaimed dramatist, 82, says he is too old to follow up the work inspired by the fate of his recently discovered Jewish familySir Tom Stoppard, Britain’s most celebrated living playwr…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:03AMSaturday, December 7, 2019
Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss and Nina Sosanya star in James Graham and Josie Rourke’s theatrical experiment
The play The Vote, a theatrical experiment broadcast live on television on electi…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48PMSaturday, July 6, 2019
Broad stage theatre comedy full of plot twists, puns and frantic action is finding a new audienceThe stage is set like a hotel bedroom where a scantily clad woman is hiding inside a wardrobe…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:54PMWomen claim staff did not ‘like the T-shirts we are wearing’ but NT says the action was ‘a result of a series of disturbances’
The National Theatre has become embroiled in a bitter w…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:54PMSaturday, June 22, 2019
After an Edinburgh debut just 12 months ago, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow tell of the whirlwind success of their musical about Henry VIII’s wivesTwelve months can be a long time, especially i…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMSaturday, May 11, 2019
Hip-hop, grime and urban violence take centre stage in a new production of the Shakespeare tragedyModern street slang, words such as fam, peng, fleek and hench, should be dropped into Shakes…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:33PMSaturday, April 27, 2019
Comic work by German composer has been reinterpreted for modern audiencesGerman composer Kurt Weill is ranked high among the best of the 20th century and his music remains popular outside th…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:30AMSunday, March 24, 2019
Jamael Westman explains how his role in the West End show has affected his politics as well as his careerThe swift rise to fame of Jamael Westman, leading man in the London cast of the hit m…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:00AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
Whether it’s Russian or simply ‘northern’, directors face new hurdles in the casting of ‘authentic’ speaking rolesWhen Scottish film star Sean Connery delivered his lines in the 19…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00PMSaturday, March 9, 2019
Star who is taking legal action on antisemitic trolling will take role in Merchant of Venice that shifts setting to London’s East EndTracy Ann Oberman, the actress at the centre of a legal…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
A new book helps BAME actors shrug off stereotypes and show their real talentsNeed a convincing member of a street gang for a TV show? Or a suspected terrorist for a police interrogation sce…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:06PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Bristol’s Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m faceliftOne of the oldest theatres in Europe, Bristol Old Vic, is finally to have a proper fro…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, August 27, 2018
Rose Matafeo’s take on twentysomething life is toast of the FringeNew Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh festival fringe. Steve Coogan, one …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:18AMSaturday, August 25, 2018
New Zealander’s show about sex and modern social mores scoops top comedy gongThe New Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.Her …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMInfluential avant garde creative force who worked with David Bowie dies in Italy, aged 80Lindsay Kemp, the experimental British choreographer and mime, who made his name in the 1960s and col…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:04AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
This year’s Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents – from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth – who blazed the same trailAmong the many voices booming out across comedy…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, July 13, 2018
He's probably the most notable stage actor around, a master of the classics who seems to be making Shakespeare's greatest characters his own. Next on the agenda is Macbeth at London's Almeid…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24PMSunday, July 8, 2018
Poorer drama students face an uphill struggle, with funding cuts and rising fees. But British theatre may be the loser unless more actors from a range of backgrounds take centre stageWhen Ir…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
Dramatists behind a C4 film and two plays about the referendum must contend with the way facts and key players in this divisive issue are still shiftingIt is the divisive issue that will com…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, June 17, 2018
Lost memoir reveals playwright’s vanities and key friendshipsFrom the haunting theatricality of An Inspector Calls, to the comic charm of The Good Companions and When We Are Married, the b…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:32AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Written in the 1890s, censored in the 1960s, tale of young desire Spring Awakening is back on stage as a musicalA story once banned from the British stage due to its celebration of adolescen…
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