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Editor's Picks

Opinion

School of Rock (2016 cast pictured here), produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres, which recently partnered with ethical secondary ticketing site Twickets. Photo: Tristram Kenton

Richard Howle: Ticket resale shake-up will keep touts out and customers happy

Dec 5, 2019

Features

Musical director George Francis: ‘I’ve never felt comfortable telling people my age until now’

Dec 4, 2019

News

News

Theatre Royal Stratford East offers streamed panto to hospitals and care homes

Dec 5, 2019

News

Miriam-Teak Lee in & Juliet, for which she is nominated in the best musical category. Photo: Johan Perrson

WhatsOnStage Awards: the nominations in full

Dec 5, 2019

News

Michael Billington. Photo: Daniel Farmer

Michael Billington criticises rise of ‘god-like’ directors

Dec 5, 2019

News

Monsoon Wedding musical to open at Leeds Playhouse

Dec 5, 2019

Reviews

Reviews

A Christmas Carol review at Bristol Old Vic – ‘captivatingly fresh update’

Dec 5, 2019

Reviews

Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers review at Battersea Arts Centre – ‘daft and delightfully inventive’

Dec 5, 2019

Reviews

Dick Whittington and His Cat review at Hackney Empire – ‘it’s everything you need right now’

Dec 5, 2019

Reviews

A Christmas Carol review at Old Vic, London – ‘charming and atmospheric’

Dec 5, 2019

Opinion

Opinion

Alanna Mitchell of Sea Sick. Photo: Chloe Ellingson

Richard Jordan: Canada drive – how the country’s embracing of the arts has led to success

Dec 5, 2019

Opinion

Playwright Eve Leigh: Audiences are hungry for new forms of storytelling

Dec 5, 2019

Features

Features

Musical director George Francis: ‘I’ve never felt comfortable telling people my age until now’

Dec 4, 2019

Features

‘I’d like to get out of theatre by the time I’m 50’ – remembering Jonathan Miller, 38 years ago in The Stage

Dec 4, 2019

Features

Lyn Gardner speaks to Nigel Farnall and Angelica Puscasu, winners of the inaugural Achates Philanthropy Prize. Photo: James Allan

‘I never ask for money, I always ask for change’ – How transforming philanthropy can transform theatre

Dec 4, 2019

Interviews

Shona Reppe

Theatremaker Shona Reppe: ‘A lot of designers would make great directors’

Dec 3, 2019

Advice

Advice

West End Producer

Dear West End Producer: ‘How necessary is it for aspiring directors to have an MA to break into the industry?’

Dec 4, 2019

Advice

John Byrne. Photo: Catherine Usher

Careers Clinic: Am I suited to overseas work?

Dec 4, 2019

International

Interviews

Cabaret artist Leah Shelton: ‘It’s about how you should behave sexually as a man or a woman’

Dec 2, 2019

News

Farnham Maltings to merge with Visiting Arts exchange programme

Dec 2, 2019

Broadway

Opinion

Jonathan Hadary, Nikki M James, Michael Esper and Crystal Lucas-Perry in A Bright Room Called Day at New York's Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus

Howard Sherman: Political pundits must stop using theatre as a punch bag

Nov 29, 2019

Interviews

Mara Isaacs. Photo: T Charles Erickson

Producer Mara Isaacs: ‘I can be nimble in how I support these crazy, experimental projects’

Nov 25, 2019

In case you missed it

News

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2019: the winners in full

Nov 24, 2019

Opinion

The top pantos to look out for in 2019, from the Palladium’s Goldilocks to Belfast’s Beauty and the Beast

Nov 14, 2019

Features

Conductor Pascale Van Os and orchestra at the Royal Opera House. Photo: Danielle Patrick

Long Read: Access all arias – does opera have a gender problem?

Nov 6, 2019

Features

Inside story: Theatre in prisons and the fight for rehabilitation

Oct 30, 2019

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