As hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding The vital memorabilia and personal effects of our greatest p…
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who played Juliet alongside Tom Holland's Romeo, says racist abuse went on for months The actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who received a barrage of online racial …
Hollywood actor will 'invite the world's best' to Pitlochry Festival theatre after making surprise approach for role The Hollywood star and queer icon Alan Cumming is returning to his roots …
Inaugural season to include adaptation of James Baldwin novel and an immersive rave An immersive rave, voguing and an adaptation of James Baldwin's novel Giovanni's Room are all part of the …
Fifty drawings of displaced people will be exhibited in a London church, in collaboration with UN refugee agency Providing safe routes for asylum seekers should be the focus of the UK govern…
Tinuke Craig says current black British theatre talent was developed when schemes to improve access were common The lack of investment in arts schemes aimed at working-class children will cr…
Deborah McAndrew's Bright Lights Over Bentilee recreates the local legend of a UFO sighting in the fields behind a housing estate in 1967 For residents of the Bentilee housing estate in Stok…
Glaswegian, 44, says angioplasty was 'shot across the bows' and she will now swap Red Bull for hummus A car breaking down when you're hours away from an important Edinburgh fringe warm-up gi…
Mainly male audience members had to step out of preview performance of The Years after graphic scene An award-winning play premiering in London had to be stopped for 10 minutes during a prev…
Ageism standing in way of older writers breaking into the industry, playwrights claim The phrase "emerging playwright" should not be restricted to those under the age of 40, leading UK theat…
Queen, his biggest show to date, opens in Liverpool and features new commissions of the city's drag performers As a child, Magnus Hastings loved stealing his sister's clothes and wearing his…
Manager 'was everything we didn't have in our politics', insists James Graham as he rewrites ending of play The playwright James Graham has paid tribute to the outgoing England football mana…
As the music genre's popularity rises, dance classes are springing up. The Guardian goes along to give it a try When Xingxi Wang started running K-pop dance classes in Birmingham, she rented…
Nandy says her department will prioritise celebrating British culture and a less divisive vision of the UK The "era of culture wars is over", Lisa Nandy has promised in her first speech as c…
Oldham council pledges £10m to refurbish theatre after campaign led by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh Oldham's historic Coliseum theatre has been saved from closure, after a successful campaign…
Children's experiences form basis of play that weaves 150 years of care system history into narrative When theatre-makers Matt Woodhead and Helen Monks gathered with a small group of childre…
As Benedict Lombe's play Shifters transfers to West End, she is only third black British woman to have play staged there Theatre audiences are "thirsty" for romance stories told from a black…
Investment management firm cancelled deals with UK literary festivals over links to Israel and fossil fuel companies The chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has robustly…
Exclusive: Actors call for all parties to back investment as figures suggest 16% cuts since 2017 Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman have called on all political parties to urgently invest in …
Company performing Shakespeare classic formed of 12 members who moved to small Uzhhorod town during war Vyacheslav Yehorov was working at a film school creating art therapy for children when…
Exclusive: Playwright James Graham says he will rewrite Dear England depending on outcome of Euros If the Three Lions lift the men's Euros trophy this summer, they will have rewritten the sc…
Actor calls on whoever wins on 4 July to recognise what the arts bring to society, as Salford's Lowry theatre turns 25 The arts should not be treated as an economic "bloodsucker", Timothy Sp…
Artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic Michelle Terry, the artistic director of Shakespeare's Glob…
Trio of plays co-created by Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter The co-creator of the Death of England series of plays has said the deca…
Exclusive: Audience had 'vitriolic reaction' to European tone of musical, forced to close early Rufus Wainwright has defended his musical Opening Night, which was forced to close early after…