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Edinburgh's Assembly Hall. Photo: Lou Armor/Shutterstock

Edinburgh International Festival facing ‘accelerated decline’ due to planned 10% cut

Musical Theatre Academy investigated over safeguarding concerns

Kully Thiarai announces departure from National Theatre Wales

Nancy Carroll in rehearsals for The Deep Blue Sea at Chichester. Photo: Manuel Harlan

Actor Nancy Carroll: ‘As long as my body serves me, I want to use it. It’s my tool bag’

Extinction rebellion protesters at the ROH screening in Trafalgar Square. Photo: Joe Twigg

Extinction Rebellion stages mass protest at BP-sponsored Royal Opera House screening

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review at the Bridge Theatre, London – ‘circus thrills and muted magic’

Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End. Photo: Christian Mueller/Shutterstock

West End deal secures 9% pay rise and paves the way for flexible working

Actors in touring production of Rotterdam assaulted in homophobic attack

Tony Awards 2019: the winners in full

Olivia Colman, Simon Russel Beale and Cush Jumbo. Photos: Wiki/Piers Allardyce/Alex Brenner

Simon Russell Beale knighted in Queen’s birthday honours with Olivia Colman, Sheila Atim and Cush Jumbo also recognised

Bernadette Peters’ UK tour cancelled by producer with history of collapsed shows

Editor's Picks

Features

Joan Littlewood pictured in the 1970s outside Theatre Royal Stratford East. Photo: TRSE Archive

Fun Palaces showcase: How Joan Littlewood was inspired to bring pleasure to the people

Jun 14, 2019

Opinion

The company of Play On Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo: Howard Sherman

Howard Sherman: Shakespeare ‘translations’ can be a gateway drug to the real thing

Jun 14, 2019

News

News

Production news round-up: Once announces first UK tour and Singin’ in the Rain to be revived

Jun 14, 2019

News

Edinburgh's Assembly Hall. Photo: Lou Armor/Shutterstock

Edinburgh International Festival facing ‘accelerated decline’ due to planned 10% cut

Jun 14, 2019

News

Punchdrunk expands into TV production with Sky series starring Jude Law

Jun 14, 2019

News

Disused Manchester train depot to become large-scale cultural venue under new proposals

Jun 14, 2019

Reviews

Reviews

Plenty review at Chichester Festival Theatre – ‘engaging, if chilly revival’

Jun 14, 2019

Reviews

The Flies review at the Bunker, London – ‘tedious, awkward and incoherent’

Jun 14, 2019

Reviews

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review at Nevill Holt Opera – ‘an enchanting evening’

Jun 14, 2019

Reviews

The Future review at Battersea Arts Centre – ‘entertaining musical comedy about artificial intelligence’

Jun 14, 2019

Opinion

Opinion

The company of Play On Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo: Howard Sherman

Howard Sherman: Shakespeare ‘translations’ can be a gateway drug to the real thing

Jun 14, 2019

Opinion

evening standard

Andrzej Lukowski: Newspaper theatre criticism is bloodied, but unlikely to disappear

Jun 14, 2019

Features

Features

Joan Littlewood pictured in the 1970s outside Theatre Royal Stratford East. Photo: TRSE Archive

Fun Palaces showcase: How Joan Littlewood was inspired to bring pleasure to the people

Jun 14, 2019

Interviews

Playwright Dylan Coburn Gray: ‘Poetry is stillness, drama is rupture’

Jun 14, 2019

Interviews

LJ Findlay-Walsh

LJ Findlay-Walsh: ‘Work that shakes the foundations excites me’

Jun 13, 2019

Interviews

Nancy Carroll in rehearsals for The Deep Blue Sea at Chichester. Photo: Manuel Harlan

Actor Nancy Carroll: ‘As long as my body serves me, I want to use it. It’s my tool bag’

Jun 13, 2019

Advice

Advice

West End Producer

Dear West End Producer: ‘Is it ever too late to train as an actor?’

Jun 12, 2019

Advice

John Byrne. Photo: Catherine Usher

Careers Clinic: How do I restart my acting career?

Jun 12, 2019

International

Reviews

The Knight of the Burning Pestle review at Barbican Theatre, London – ‘metatheatrical playfulness’

Jun 7, 2019

News

Scottish government calls cultural visa summit amid concerns over impact on Edinburgh festivals

May 30, 2019

Broadway

Interviews

Singer Renée Fleming: ‘Music is a form of social cohesion – a way of holding us together’

Jun 11, 2019

News

Tony Awards 2019: Winners in numbers

Jun 10, 2019

In case you missed it

Features

Against all odds: the secrets of how a fringe show makes it to the stage

May 22, 2019

Interviews

Wendell Pierce

Wendell Pierce: ‘Willy Loman is as exhausting a role as Lear. I’m knackered’

May 8, 2019

Interviews

Stage and screen actor Bill Pullman: ‘I trained as a director, but I was too shy – I wasn’t a natural’

May 7, 2019

Opinion

Editor’s View: Help us help young people Get Into Theatre

May 2, 2019

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