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Lyn Gardner

Lyn Gardner

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Lyn Gardner is a theatre critic and associate editor of The Stage. Read her weekly column every Monday.

Recent Articles

Without Vault Festival, it is time venues stepped up for early career artists

Without Vault Festival, it is time venues stepped up for early career artists

Vault Festival provided a platform to many emerging, and later successful, artists. If British theatre is committed to supporting its future, venues now need to up their game
Youth must be served: reaching young audiences isn’t all in the programming

Youth must be served: reaching young audiences isn’t all in the programming

Recent research shows that theatres are attracting a younger, more diverse audience than ever before. Lyn Gardner examines this phenomenon and argues that efforts to continue to draw in these theatregoers must be focused on more than just programming
Dave Moutrey

Dave Moutrey

As he leaves HOME to become Manchester’s full-time cultural chief, the outgoing director and chief executive talks to Lyn Gardner about putting art at the heart of the city’s reputation
If artists’ funding is in crisis, it is the government that is to blame

If artists’ funding is in crisis, it is the government that is to blame

ACE project grants may be problematic, but the real issue is that funding streams such as this are simply not sufficiently resourced to operate in a landscape that is increasingly tough for artists
Is ACE project funding working for artists?

Is ACE project funding working for artists?

Every year, thousands of artists, companies and venues make and receive work facilitated by an Arts Council England project grant. But with application success rates dropping and the costs of making theatre spiralling upwards, is this source of funding becoming a risk too far for everyone involved? Lyn Gardner investigates
Is the optimism of flagship organisations enough to save the sector?

Is the optimism of flagship organisations enough to save the sector?

While the optimism of producer Sonia Friedman and the RSC’s Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans is laudable, the whole of British theatre needs to unite to stay afloat in tough times
Chris Thorpe: ‘Theatre is a good place to talk about nuclear weapons’

Chris Thorpe: ‘Theatre is a good place to talk about nuclear weapons’

Chris Thorpe talks to Lyn Gardner about the power of theatre to expand the way people think about the world, collective survival and his impressive body of work
It’s no surprise artists are suspicious of ACE guidance on ‘political’ statements

It’s no surprise artists are suspicious of ACE guidance on ‘political’ statements

The furore over ACE’s guideline refresh reveals how dubious theatremakers are over the organisation’s arm’s-length distance from the government
You can make great art and make a difference too

You can make great art and make a difference too

As funding cuts continue to bite, embracing civic responsibility shows that our theatres are there to serve everyone
Phoebe Eclair-Powell: ‘I hit a wall and lost all my confidence. Writing for Hollyoaks saved me’

Phoebe Eclair-Powell: ‘I hit a wall and lost all my confidence. Writing for Hollyoaks saved me’

Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s latest play takes its inspiration from an unexpected source to explore love, loss and violence. She opens up about the highs and lows of her playwriting journey, from the pandemic and postnatal depression to being a Bruntwood prize-winner
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