The California star may have earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Joan Baez in Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, but as she prepares for her stage debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses…
Indhu Rubasingham calls in Jennie Lee lecture for renewed commitment to creative risk and new writing The National Theatre's artistic director, Indhu Rubasingham, has said conservative theat…
Arts Council England must remain free from interference to ensure artistic freedom, says report by Labour peer Arts Council England needs to scrap its flagship strategy, ensure that arts fun…
James Graham's play Punch touches on gang culture, restorative justice and masculinity in crisis, and for the playwright the true story was a privilege to tell When thousands of schoolchildr…
With Dog Man making his London theatre debut next summer, theatre makers explain how to make a successful jump from page to stage From Paddington and the BFG to The Gruffalo's Child, My Neig…
The one-act play Oh, Mary! " 'the stupidest, funniest thing possible' " to open after blockbuster run in New York What if, in the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the firs…
Star turns are boosting ticket sales this season, including Islington show featuring MP's Wizard of Oz and Olivier winner's Toto We're a third of the way through the fabulously camp producti…
Rowdy audience members have disrupted performances with heckling, violence and even copulation in the stalls "Speak clearly and don't bump into the furniture" " so goes Noël Coward's time…
Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed …
He's had supporting roles in almost every big TV show of the past few years, but now the man nicknamed Ideal Actor is taking the lead on stage, playing a top politician. He talks about chall…
Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get live feed of Rachel Zegler singing from balcony to passersby Jamie Lloyd's production of Evita has been referred to as the hottest tic…
Exclusive: Demand the Impossible interrogates police injustice and infiltration of 1,000 political groups There's one moment from the public inquiry into undercover police officers " known a…
Officers attended theatre in Southend after reports of altercation at end of Paul Chowdhry's show Police were called to a comedy show in Essex after a fight broke out in the audience, which …
Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries Arts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to …
Playwright calls for return to theatre's founding vision and to stop 'angling for West End' The National Theatre risks "eroding the culture" by shifting away from its founding principles an…
Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care The Royal Ballet school has reached a financial settlement with a former student who said the body sh…
Producers say it is 'impossible to continue' with musical that was due to be staged at Leeds Playhouse from April A stage version of Neil Gaiman's Coraline has been cancelled after allegatio…
Slattery, who rose to fame in 1980s, appeared on shows such as Have I Got News for You and Whose Line Is It Anyway? ' Tony Slattery: 'I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy'' To…
Outgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools Kwame Kwei-Armah, the outgoing artistic director of the Young Vic, has warned th…
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 …
Lasting Covid impact and need to attract audiences behind move to performances running straight through For some it's an indispensable part of their night at the theatre, a chance to top up …
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…
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…
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…
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 …