142 stories by "Charlotte Higgins"
The London community has rallied round, and shows are going on. Even the theatre cat was found, hungry but healthy Continue reading...
After 68 years, the Edinburgh international festival is finally embracing pop. Its new boss reveals why Franz Ferdinand and Sufjan Stevens will be rubbing shoulders with Lepage, McBurney " a…
Of all the artforms, theatre is the one most directly addressing our politics. From King Charles III and Posh to The Vote " to be staged on election night " this is a golden moment for polit…
How do you breathe new life into an ancient Greek tragedy? If anyone can, then it's Juliette Binoche and Ivo van Hove. The actor and the director talk to Charlotte Higgins about the personal…
After the Newcastle upon Tyne council leader dealt with cuts, the city's theatre companies have been forced to adapt or die Continue reading...
The past year has been transformative for Derry but many see a lack of vision and ambition as threatening its arts legacyFeargal Murray, musician and Derry man, was back in his home city to …
Actors and staff greet news of appointment with standing ovation as departing head Sir Nicholas Hytner hails 'brilliant decision'When Rufus Norris's appointment to the most prominent job in …
National Theatre announces that Rufus Norris will follow Nicholas Hytner as head of Britain's leading theatre companyRufus Norris, it was announced today, will follow in the footsteps of Lau…
Library plans to auction Shakespeare's first four folios to raise £3-5m for research collectionA proposal by the library of the University of London to auction a rare set of early printed…
Head of Scottish National Theatre warns reduction in English arts funding will 'damage the DNA of the arts ecology' England risks a "talent drain" of artists taking advantage of a more welco…
After a string of sold-out performances at the Manchester international festival, Branagh will bring Macbeth to New YorkThe atmosphere was fraught and visceral, and audiences were so close t…
Leaving Planet Earth, one of Edinburgh international festival's most ambitious productions, to take off in disused quarryScience fiction is usually the preserve of film, with the endless pos…
Richard Bean, who wrote One Man, Two Guvnors, is 'nearly ready' to deliver drama set in tabloid newsroomThe phone-hacking scandal is not short of drama: Rupert Murdoch smeared with shaving f…
Royal's golden women to be reunited at other behemoth of the British classical dance sceneLast year, Tamara Rojo, the fiercely intelligent Spanish star of the Royal Ballet, jumped ship to be…
Abi Morgan's play The Mistress Contracts, based on 40 years of transcripts charting a real-life affair, will feature in Vicky Featherstone's first season as artistic directorAbi Morgan, the …
Fergus Linehan, a former director of the Sydney festival, is to take over the Edinburgh international festivalFor the second time in a row, the Edinburgh international festival has looked to…
'Surprise theatre', nightly soap opera, readings by authors and children's week planned under new artistic directorThe Royal Court, Britain's most important theatre for new drama, which has …
Open letter calls on Ed Vaizey to respond to report showing evidence that British theatre is hurting as a result of funding cutsLuminaries of the theatre, including playwrights Sir Tom Stopp…
Director credited with giving National Theatre a golden decade of hits will leave along with closest colleague Nick StarrSir Nicholas Hytner, who has presided over what has been, by near uni…
Alex Beard helped build Tate Modern, but has never worked in opera or dance. Now he is to take on one of Britain's most prominent arts jobs " boss of the Royal Opera HouseAlex Beard, deputy …
The team behind international hit War Horse are doing A Midsummer Night's Dream " with actors, puppets and flying gardening tools. Charlotte Higgins goes behind the scenes at rehearsalsTom M…
Programme for May's three-week arts celebration " released today " will feature Emil and the Detectives, Judith Kerr and Michael Rosen's orchestral work for kids, The Great EnormoEmil and th…
English theatre study claims Arts Council cuts mean cancelled shows, fewer new plays, fewer commissions and smaller castsThe English theatre scene is "shrivelling", according to new research…
Highlights include a BBC2 gala night, a musical by Tori Amos, and an ambitious revival of a four-hour Eugene O'Neill epicAnne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwr…
The show Praxis Makes Perfect will open in May in a secret location in Cardiff and then pop up at music festivals around UKThey have staged Aeschylus in the Brecon Beacons, and transformed t…
