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Eight UK performers quarantined after evacuation from coronavirus-stricken cruise ship

When It Breaks It Burns at Battersea Arts Centre, London. Photo: JMA Photography

When It Breaks It Burns review at Battersea Arts Centre, London – ‘exhilarating fusion of performance and activism’

Nicholas Serota. Photo: Hugh Glendinning

Arts Council chair rebuffs accusations 10-year strategy shows ‘serious disregard’ for women

London’s Gate Theatre at 40: ‘If you’re not brave, you’re not honouring the Gate’s history’

Editor's Picks

Opinion

Playwright Jingan Young: Like the press, theatre holds a mirror up to our hypocrisy and desires

Feb 24, 2020

Interviews

Paines Plough’s Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett: ‘Our USP is touring so we help give writers a national voice’

Feb 24, 2020

News

News

Selladoor launches app allowing audience members to order drinks to their seats

Feb 24, 2020

News

Carnival company to launch new arts centre in Sunderland

Feb 24, 2020

News

Eight UK performers quarantined after evacuation from coronavirus-stricken cruise ship

Feb 24, 2020

News

A designer giving a model-box presentation. Photo: Alex Brenner

Deal for designers hailed as “great step forward” in creating fairer terms

Feb 24, 2020

Reviews

Reviews

The Suicide review at Storyhouse, Chester – ‘comic excess and outdated stereotypes’

Feb 24, 2020

Reviews

Belly Up review at the Vaults, London – ‘fun, feminist historical comedy’

Feb 24, 2020

Reviews

The Marriage of Figaro review at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff – ‘sparkling revival’

Feb 24, 2020

Reviews

The Wolves in the Walls review at Little Angel Theatre, London – ‘a perfectly pitched piece of family theatre’

Feb 24, 2020

Opinion

Opinion

Playwright Jingan Young: Like the press, theatre holds a mirror up to our hypocrisy and desires

Feb 24, 2020

Opinion

Candoco Dance Company - one of the organisations that must improve its rating to strong by 2021. Photo: Camilla Greenwell

Poll: Should theatre companies lose funding if they do not demonstrate commitment to diversity?

Feb 24, 2020

Features

Interviews

Legal Aliens’ Lara Parmiani: ‘We want to get a different perspective on migration’

Feb 24, 2020

Interviews

The Stage Unsung Hero Mary Joseph: ‘I play pranks on Rupert Goold all the time – he’s great’

Feb 24, 2020

Interviews

Paines Plough’s Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett: ‘Our USP is touring so we help give writers a national voice’

Feb 24, 2020

Interviews

Actor Robert Bathurst in a promotion shot for Love, Loss and Chianti at Riverside Studios. Photo: Alex Brenner

Actor Robert Bathurst: ‘Acting is basically colouring in someone else’s artwork’

Feb 21, 2020

Advice

Scholarships

The outside of SPAA's building in UAE

The Stage Scholarships 2020: Sharjah Performing Arts Academy

Feb 19, 2020

Advice

Sabrina Aloueche. Photo: Faye Thomas

Actor Sabrina Aloueche: ‘My first two jobs were Les Misérables and We Will Rock You’

Feb 18, 2020

International

Reviews

When It Breaks It Burns at Battersea Arts Centre, London. Photo: JMA Photography

When It Breaks It Burns review at Battersea Arts Centre, London – ‘exhilarating fusion of performance and activism’

Feb 24, 2020

Opinion

Richard Jordan: What does coronavirus mean for the theatre industry?

Feb 6, 2020

Broadway

Reviews

West Side Story review at Broadway Theatre, New York – ‘Ivo van Hove refreshes a classic musical’

Feb 21, 2020

Interviews

Sara Bareilles. Photo: Shervin Lainez

Sara Bareilles: ‘Theatre people work harder for less money than anybody else’

Jan 27, 2020

In case you missed it

News

The Stage Awards 2020: The winners in full

Jan 31, 2020

Features

The Stage 100 2020: The full list

Jan 7, 2020

News

Ian McKellen. Photo: Sarah Dunn

The Stage 100 2020: Ian McKellen first actor to be named theatre’s most influential figure

Jan 2, 2020

News

Slow progress on diversity exposed as The Stage survey shows 92% of top theatre bosses are white

Jan 2, 2020

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