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The Stage celebrates outstanding theatre across the UK with three awards programmes: The Stage Awards, The Stage Edinburgh Awards and The Stage Debut Awards. Find all the nominations, info and winners from The Stage's own awards and all the other leading prizes across the performing arts industry.

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Lyn Gardner
by Lyn Gardner

Theatre’s greatest strength is that we must experience it together

One of theatre’s supreme attributes is that it provides a collective experience, suggests Lyn Gardner – the opportunity to feel something together
Amanda Parker
by Amanda Parker

Would it be a crime to kill a sacred cow to free up a West End theatre?

The Mousetrap has been a guaranteed seat-filler for nearly 75 years, but is it time to reassess its right to a prime theatre spot in perpetuity? asks Amanda Parker

Editor's View

Andrew Lloyd Webber is right about Broadway – but the West End could be next

Andrew Lloyd Webber is right to worry that Broadway is now financially unviable for producers, says The Stage editor Matthew Hemley, but this has implications for UK producers too

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The Stage Interview

The Stage talks in depth to movers and shakers from across the industry

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Jane Asher

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Ben Power
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Ben Power

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With his award-winning adaptation of The Lehman Trilogy returning to the West End, Ben Power walks The Stage through his journey to becoming “the National Theatre’s secret weapon”, what theatre can learn from screen and the future of the industry
Reece Shearsmith
“There’s a lot of snobbery around comedy”

Reece Shearsmith

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Kathryn Hunter
“The pretend world often seemed more real”

Kathryn Hunter

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“I find the Little Englander attitude to theatre embarrassing”

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Ivo van Hove
“I want to make the most extreme art without compromising”

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Sutton Foster

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Akram Khan

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Lynette Linton

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Michael Sheen

Actor and artistic director

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Artistic director

Michael Sheen

Actor and artistic director

Annilese Miskimmon

Artistic director

Lynette Linton

Director and writer

Akram Khan

Choreographer

Sutton Foster

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Michael Pennington

Actor, director and writer

Elizabeth McGovern

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Long Reads

The Fringe Five | Emma Howlett

The Fringe Five | Emma Howlett

by Fergus Morgan
The Stage’s critics have chosen five theatremakers who made the biggest impact at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe – they include Emma Howlett of TheatreGoose, author and director of Aether at Summerhall
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The Stage Debut Awards 2025 winners: what happened next...

The Stage Debut Awards 2025 winners: what happened next...

by Giverny Masso
This September, The Stage Debut Awards, in association with Netflix, will crown a new set of winners. Giverny Masso catches up with some of the 2025 victors to find out what they have been up to since – and their advice for this year’s nominees...
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Q&A

Interviews with established and emerging theatremakers working on stage and behind the scenes in UK theatre and beyond.
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Amanda Wilkin

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Anoushka Warden

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