Lyn Gardner

In the latest look at a show that should have opened this week but couldn’t because of coronavirus, Lyn Gardner talks to Joe Murphy, director of A Christmas Carol, which was due to open at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre. She also looks at a significant show that opened this week in a previous year, Fairview at the Young Vic in 2019

Lyn Gardner says making and producing theatre is full of risk, but you don’t expect your own government to pile further uncertainty on top and make a thriving industry unviable

Home executive director Jon Gilchrist tells Lyn Gardner how the theatre has instituted a three-phase reopening that mitigates for the government’s indecision

Freelancers have been overlooked and underpaid for too long – it’s time for change, says Lyn Gardner

In the latest look at a show that should have opened but couldn’t because of coronavirus, Lyn Gardner talks to Lotte Wakeham, artistic director of Bolton’s Octagon Theatre, about the ‘ultimate festive show’ A Christmas Carol

Outdated stereotypes of football-mad northerners and theatre-loving southerners are absurd, but our industry should use the current crisis to make lasting changes and give people from all places and backgrounds access to the arts

In the latest look at a show that should have opened this week but couldn’t because of coronavirus, Lyn Gardner talks to Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler, adapters of The Magician’s Elephant, which was due to open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. She also looks at a significant show that opened this week last year: Dear Evan Hansen at the West End’s Noël Coward Theatre

Audiences will be looking for light relief in a post-Covid theatre world, says Lyn Gardner, but Chichester’s production of Crave shows that thought-provoking new work can also strike a chord

Live theatre will be back. Just not yet. The government’s leaked, then bungled announcement of a new lockdown brings down the curtain on live performance. Again.