142 stories by "Charlotte Higgins"
Versatile musician was equally at home writing jazz and film scores as music for the concert hall
An all-female Julius Caesar has just hit the stage, but it's a rarity in theatre. In a special report, Charlotte Higgins asks leading figures why women are still underrepresented at every le…
An all-female Julius Caesar has just hit the stage, but it's a rarity in theatre. In a special report, Charlotte Higgins asks leading figures why women are still underrepresented at every le…
Only one in three actors, writers and artistic directors are women " and only a quarter of directors, Guardian research showsWomen buy more theatre tickets than men but are consistently unde…
George Osborne, the chancellor, has announced in his autumn statement that Whitehall departments are to cut budgets by 1% this year and 2% next yearThe key point in George Osborne's autumn s…
Nicholas Hytner has had a phenomenally successful run at the helm of the National Theatre, this week picking up an armful of awards. But it's his outspoken attack on the government over the …
When Tony Hall was appointed chief executive of the Royal Opera House, his name came as a bolt out of the blue. Will his successor be equally unlikely: or will he or she be one of the usual …
The cast and director of a new Donmar Warehouse show tell Charlotte Higgins what a thrilling and liberating experience it has been tackling one of Shakespeare's great worksOn a table in the …
National Theatre's Nicholas Hytner joins in condemnation of Tories' stance on the arts at conference on regional theatreTwo leading lights of Britain's cultural life " Danny Boyle, who direc…
Manchester festival has honour of actor's first Shakespeare role in 10 years in 'immersive' staging within deconsecrated churchUnless you count his performance of "the isle is full of noises…
Playwright's piece laments nation turned into 'captive market' where public life exhibits a 'diminution of magnanimity'Plays by Alan Bennett are an event: sold out months ahead and their sub…
Tom Morris co-directed the play with that giant horse. Now he is tackling A Midsummer Night's DreamLast week Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National theatre, made a joke, in a…
Nicholas Hytner says National's recent high earnings have relied on spate of successful West End transfers, such as War HorseThe National Theatre is celebrating what artistic director Nichol…
Only weeks after British culture was shown off to the world, the effects of the arts council cutbacks are beginning to be felt. Charlotte Higgins reports' Tell us how the arts cuts are affec…
Big names in theatre are turning to children and teens who want to express their anxiety about the futureThe kids are not all right: that is the message of a number of dramas at the Edinburg…
The Noises Off author on hoaxes, identities " and the hidden joke in his new bookThe craggy, distinguished-looking chap on the stage at the Edinburgh international book festival seemed to be…
Creative Scotland has put 49 companies on to project-based lottery funding " unleashing a host of concerns about the principles and ideologies at play in Scottish arts subsidyI have spent ne…
Creative Scotland has put 49 companies on to project-based lottery funding " unleashing a host of concerns about the principles and ideologies at play in Scottish arts subsidyI have spent ne…
Janet Suzman among high-profile thespians highlighting lack of opportunity that reflects wider imbalance in societyJanet Suzman is an actor who, by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has …
Grandage will direct Jude Law, Judi Dench, David Walliams, Daniel Radcliffe and many more at the Noel Coward theatreMichael Grandage, who for a decade led the pocket-size theatre the Donmar …
Once, a musical set in a pub audiences can drink at, cleaned up at the Tonys. Charlotte Higgins speaks to its writer Enda Walsh and director John TiffanyThe big upset of Sunday night's Tony …
In our writers' favourite films series, Charlotte Higgins applauds a picture that jetés through the imagination's darkest recesses' Think you can post a better review of The Red Shoes? Then…
Two years ago the Cultural Olympiad was floundering. Has new boss Ruth Mackenzie turned it around? She talks mass bell-ringing, Barenboim and beaches with Charlotte HigginsLast year, when Ru…
The London 2012 festival, which will form the grand finale of the Cultural Olympiad, unveils countrywide programme of arts events from a bell-ringing flashmob to Cate Blanchett's return to t…
New artistic director at Scottish Ballet, a bilingual British actor on Broadway and one ballerina's perfumed role preparationNew artistic director for Scottish BalletAshley Page abruptly res…
