Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 years The Garrick Club has named Judi Dench and Siân Phillips as dist…
Campaigners call for 'outdated structures' that undermine progress and encourage inequality to be dismantled Cultural organisations and equality campaigners have called on high-profile figur…
Inua Ellams adaptation nods to Shamima Begum, stop and search, Prevent programme and police surveillance The incoming home secretary is unlikely to have diary space for a theatre trip this w…
With her gripping sea-bound thriller Corinna, Corinna, playwright Chloë Moss shines a spotlight on the dangers faced by women working in the shipping industry Playwright Chloë Moss gre…
From being pelted with stones in Greece to receiving a papal welcome in Rome, the giant girl's migrant trek from Syria to Manchester provoked powerful responses In Greece, far-right proteste…
The conflict lasted two brutal decades. Now a people's tribunal " of actors, human rights experts, witnesses and citizen judges " is staging a trial of the invasion. Tony Blair has been invi…
On Hostile Ground features a singing former PM " and plenty of savagely witty numbers about wrongful detention and deportation. As it prepares to launch, we go behind the scenes David Camer…
A hard-hitting new dance show uses the stories of Syrians to capture the horrors of Aleppo " and the hope that will not dieLast summer, David Cazalet was busy running the cybersecurity firm …
Shocked by the Brexit vote, the director of the National Theatre embarked on an ambitious countrywide listening project. Rufus Norris explains how everyone from shepherds to shop workers sha…
The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment's policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigration …
The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment's policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigration …
Britain Isnt Eating satirises the coalition governments approach to food banks and the feckless poor. Director Carrie Cracknell and social affairs writer Amelia Gentleman explain how they wo…
When the 12-year-old was taken from Scotland to Pakistan by her father in 2006, she became front-page news, held up as the symbol of a cultural clash between a white mother and her Muslim ex…
Rape, abuse, addiction, squalor … in Pests, Vivienne Franzmann brings the lives of women prisoners to the Royal Court. But it's no exercise in poverty tourismVivienne Franzmann's summary o…