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Boris Johnson. Photo: Frederic Legrand/Shutterstock

What does a Conservative majority mean for the arts?

Daniel Monks in Teenage Dick at the Donmar Warehouse. Photo: Marc Brenner

Teenage Dick review at Donmar Warehouse, London – ‘a riveting performance by Daniel Monks’

Sheffield Theatres and Theatre Royal Stratford East among nominees for The Stage Awards 2020

Editor's Picks

Opinion

The cast of Three Sisters. Photo: The Other Richard

Inua Ellams’ Three Sisters at the National Theatre – review round-up

Dec 13, 2019

Features

Not Too Tame’s Jimmy Fairhurst: ‘We’ve had to be a bit more entrepreneurial, a bit more Del Boy’

Dec 13, 2019

News

News

Production news round-up: Immersive Doctor Who announced and Alexandra Burke to star in My Best Friend’s Wedding

Dec 13, 2019

News

Equity official Paul Fleming. Photo: Phil Adams

Equity’s Paul Fleming: Abolish the arts councils and give funding power to the workers

Dec 13, 2019

News

Arts organisations outline key concerns following election result

Dec 13, 2019

News

Boris Johnson. Photo: Frederic Legrand/Shutterstock

What does a Conservative majority mean for the arts?

Dec 13, 2019

Reviews

Reviews

Swive [Elizabeth] review at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London – ‘a potent study of women, power and patriarchy’

Dec 13, 2019

Reviews

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes review at Sadler’s Wells, London – ‘dazzling’

Dec 13, 2019

Reviews

The Signalman review at Old Red Lion, London – ‘a heavy-handed adaptation’

Dec 13, 2019

Reviews

Cinderella review at Fairfield Halls, Croydon – ‘Tim Vine on top form’

Dec 13, 2019

Opinion

Opinion

The cast of Three Sisters. Photo: The Other Richard

Inua Ellams’ Three Sisters at the National Theatre – review round-up

Dec 13, 2019

Opinion

Cast of Follies at the National Theatre. Photo: Tristram Kenton

Howard Sherman: This is why Stephen Sondheim is in all our movies now

Dec 13, 2019

Features

Features

Not Too Tame’s Jimmy Fairhurst: ‘We’ve had to be a bit more entrepreneurial, a bit more Del Boy’

Dec 13, 2019

Features

First Taste of Honey – How The Stage reviewed the premiere of Shelagh Delaney’s classic in 1958

Dec 11, 2019

Features

Daniel Monks is starring in the UK premiere of Teenage Dick at London's Donmar Warehouse

Daniel Monks: ‘It’s really important that only disabled actors play disabled roles’

Dec 11, 2019

Obituaries

Obituary: Niall Tóibín – a leading figure in Irish theatre

Dec 11, 2019

Advice

Advice

John Byrne. Photo: Catherine Usher

Careers Clinic: How do I get through a fallow Christmas?

Dec 11, 2019

Advice

Dear West End Producer: ‘Any advice for students who are undertaking their first panto run?’

Dec 11, 2019

International

The Stage Awards

Selladoor's Amélie the Musical, Milo Rau and the Coronet's Shadows. Photos: Pamela Raith/Thomas Mueller

The Stage Awards 2020 shortlist: International award

Dec 12, 2019

Features

James Cundall (centre) with actors Leandra Ashton and Paul Hawkyard at the press launch of Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre at Blenheim Palace. Photo: Charlotte Graham

Lunchbox Theatrical: The inside story of how a global empire came crashing down

Dec 11, 2019

Broadway

Opinion

Richard Jordan: Broadway has found an edge with back-catalogue musicals, but where’s the new work?

Dec 12, 2019

Reviews

Jagged Little Pill review at Broadhurst Theatre, New York – ‘some scorching moments’

Dec 6, 2019

In case you missed it

Features

James Cundall (centre) with actors Leandra Ashton and Paul Hawkyard at the press launch of Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre at Blenheim Palace. Photo: Charlotte Graham

Lunchbox Theatrical: The inside story of how a global empire came crashing down

Dec 11, 2019

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

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