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Kully Thiarai: ‘National Theatre Wales debate must extend to wider Welsh arts sector’

Royal Shakespeare Company staff are facing redundancies

RSC staff braced for redundancies as Arts Council funding cuts hit

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Old Vic launches public fundraising campaign to increase women’s loos

David Byrne. Photo: Jack Sallabank

New Diorama artistic director David Byrne: ‘If we don’t take risks, there’s no point in us existing’

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Opinion

King Kong on Broadway

Howard Sherman: US theatre criticism is moving with times but there’s still a way to go

Nov 16, 2018

Opinion

Mark Shenton: How far should producers be allowed to twist reviews in publicity material?

Nov 16, 2018

News

News

Production news round-up: Kelsey Grammer and Danielle de Niese to star in Man of La Mancha and Tom Hiddleston cast in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal

Nov 16, 2018

News

Theresa May. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Brexit: what the draft agreement means for the arts

Nov 16, 2018

News

Jo Gordon chief executive of Northamptonshire Arts Management Trust

Jo Gordon appointed chief executive of Royal and Derngate and the Core at Corby Cube

Nov 16, 2018

News

Kelsey Grammer and Danielle de Niese to star in Man of La Mancha at London Coliseum

Nov 16, 2018

Reviews

Reviews

Hot Lane review at Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent – ‘a talented cast’

Nov 16, 2018

Reviews

The Prom review at Longacre Theatre, New York – ‘joyous and affectionate’

Nov 16, 2018

Reviews

Simon Boccanegra review at Royal Opera House – ‘an outstanding performance from Carlos Alvarez’

Nov 16, 2018

Reviews

Fanatical review at Playground Theatre, London – ‘loveable and inventive’

Nov 15, 2018

Opinion

Opinion

King Kong on Broadway

Howard Sherman: US theatre criticism is moving with times but there’s still a way to go

Nov 16, 2018

Opinion

Mark Shenton: How far should producers be allowed to twist reviews in publicity material?

Nov 16, 2018

Features

Interviews

Actor Ericka Posadas: ‘Sleeping Beauty is often thought of as the blonde one from Disney’

Nov 16, 2018

Interviews

Berwick Kaler in The Grand Old Dame of York. Photo: Anthony Robling

York’s panto legend Berwick Kaler: ‘The day I can’t bend down to tie my laces is the day I retire’

Nov 16, 2018

Obituaries

Obituary: Ntozake Shange – playwright who was ‘a powerful proponent of the black, urban experience’

Nov 14, 2018

Features

In pictures (November 15): Jenna Coleman at NYT’s Victoria’s Knickers, Cinderella in Oldham, Nick Darke Award and more

Nov 14, 2018

Advice

Advice

John Byrne. Photo: Catherine Usher

Careers Clinic: How can I maintain my acting career and pay off my debts?

Nov 14, 2018

Advice

West End Producer

Dear West End Producer: ‘How should you rehearse an onstage kiss?’

Nov 14, 2018

International

Features

Matt Park, Diana Oh, Ryan McCurdy, and Rocky Vega in My Lingerie Play. Photo: Jeremy Daniel

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: The Off-Broadway new-writing venue transforming itself

Nov 12, 2018

Interviews

Jeton Neziraj at the National Theatre of Kosovo. Photo: Slavica

Jeton Neziraj: the playwright exploring Kosovo’s identity on stage

Nov 5, 2018

Broadway

Reviews

The Prom review at Longacre Theatre, New York – ‘joyous and affectionate’

Nov 16, 2018

Opinion

King Kong on Broadway

Howard Sherman: US theatre criticism is moving with times but there’s still a way to go

Nov 16, 2018

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Interviews

ATG chief executive Mark Cornell: ‘Theatre’s been slow to embrace the importance of selling itself’

Nov 7, 2018

Features

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Audience etiquette: what is acceptable behaviour in a theatre?

Nov 6, 2018

Interviews

Hayley Atwell. Photo: Faye Thomas

Exclusive interview with Hayley Atwell: ‘I’m proud of my self-doubt, it keeps me vulnerable and questioning’

Oct 31, 2018

Features

The Stage Podcast: Stephen Sondheim’s Company, understudies and circus skills

Oct 26, 2018

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