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Amber James in rehearsals for Snowflake at the Kiln Theatre. Photo: Manuel Harlan

Top theatre shows to see this week (December 16-22)

Performers will receive guidance about the information they will be required to share in equality monitoring forms. Photo: Shutterstock

Theatres to report on socio-economic background of workforce under new Arts Council rules

Boris Johnson. Photo: Frederic Legrand/Shutterstock

What does a Conservative majority mean for the arts?

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

Editor's Picks

Opinion

Lyn Gardner: In despair over the election result? Get out of the arts bubble and make yourself useful

Dec 16, 2019

Opinion

The cast of Three Sisters. Photo: The Other Richard

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

Dec 13, 2019

News

News

Theatr Clwyd to live stream pantomime to hospitals and care homes

Dec 16, 2019

News

The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Photo: Alex Rumford

Royal Opera House to develop ‘world’s first opera in hyperreality’

Dec 16, 2019

News

Female-led theatre company launched to champion ‘unheard and underrepresented artists’

Dec 16, 2019

News

Performers will receive guidance about the information they will be required to share in equality monitoring forms. Photo: Shutterstock

Theatres to report on socio-economic background of workforce under new Arts Council rules

Dec 16, 2019

Reviews

Reviews

The cast of The Wind in the Willows at Cambridge Junction. Photo: Claire Haigh

The Wind in the Willows review at Cambridge Junction – ‘lovably whimsical’

Dec 16, 2019

Reviews

Beauty and the Beast review at Theatre Royal Bath – ‘falls slightly flat’

Dec 16, 2019

Reviews

Pecsmas review at the Yard, London – ‘a festive celebration of the queer community’

Dec 16, 2019

Reviews

Sleeping Beauty review at Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield – ‘a sharp-witted pantomime’

Dec 16, 2019

Opinion

Opinion

The Ocean at the End of the Lane at National Theatre, London – review round-up

Dec 16, 2019

Opinion

Poll: Should more theatre companies move to five-day rehearsal weeks?

Dec 16, 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

News

The Stage Awards 2020: Shortlist in full

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

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

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