Director-general says collaboration with UK arts funding bodies will create 'moments of scale that no other organisation can'A TV adaptation of the National Theatre's current Brexit play, a …
London theatregoers will decide the guilt or innocence of air force pilot who shoots down passenger jet hijacked by terroristsA play that asks the audience to decide the guilt or innocence o…
Show's 11 nominations including best actor are most for a new play, while Groundhog Day dominates musical categories Olivier awards 2017: the full list of nominationsHarry Potter and the Cur…
Company to make its first appearance in Hull for 30 years in September as part of city of culture celebrations A previously little-known reputation for Hull as a powerhouse for producing bal…
Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Charlotte Ritchie star in Simon Callow's production of Christopher Hampton's 1970 comedySimon Callow has gathered some of the UK's brightest young TV comedy sta…
Sold-out show wins best new play, best director and three acting prizes, while Billie Piper wins best actress for YermaHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, one of the biggest stage events of r…
Tickets for the Troubles-set play, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Paddy Considine, sold out within a day at the Royal Court. Now a West End run has been announcedA keenly awaited new pl…
Repertory theatre and symphony orchestra among those to receive less local authority funding than any regional equivalentsArts organisations in Birmingham have been hit with further council …
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report findsThe proportion of black and minority ethnic people working in England's…
Production based on charity founder's evidence to MPs will be the highlight of Donmar Warehouse's 2017 spring seasonOne of the most passionate, bruising and watchable select committee hearin…
JJ Abrams will co-produce US version of Mischief Theatre company's comedy, which began in front of four people above a pubThey began as three struggling actors performing to an audience of f…
Actor and former pop star hailed for stage portrayal of woman struggling to conceive in Yerma at the Young VicA stage performance variously described by critics as "devastating", "earth-quak…
Bond director to take on new Troubles-set work by Jerusalem writer for Royal Court's 2017 seasonAfter two huge James Bond blockbusters, Sam Mendes is returning to his subsidised theatre root…
Former chief of The Arches in Glasgow named as NTS artistic director after predecessor's sudden departureA former artistic director of Glasgow's much-missed club and arts venue The Arches is…
Theatre says it will return to 'shared light' productions from April 2018 after Rice's experimentation with lighting and soundEmma Rice, the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, is to s…
Ballet superstar Carlos Acosta says Havana-based company 'creates an energy' by bringing different dance styles togetherCarlos Acosta has spoken of his mission to break down barriers between…
Girl from the North Country, a new play by Conor McPherson featuring Dylan songs, is part of Old Vic season that also includes Daniel Radcliffe in Rosencratz and Guildenstern are DeadBob Dyl…
Child labour laws mean three rotating casts of performers between the ages of 9 and 13 are required for London staging"There still is a sort of feeling that we're sending children down the m…
From autumn, channel will focus on arts including poetry and dance, with intention of making BBC2 a 'cultural destination'BBC2 is entering the Saturday night ratings battle, taking on The X …
Items from collection, which includes personal correspondence, posters and programmes, will go on display in the autumnThere are thousands of meticulously filed gags, props for his generally…
Award goes to care worker who says winning gag isn't his best " 'only the clean ones get on the list' " but he's not complainingHe is a 35-year-old care worker from West Bromwich who is a di…
School children will take part in 'cultural citizens programme' in attempt to diversify audiences and attract young people to cultural activitiesHundreds of schoolchildren are to get free an…
NT hopes new technology and immersive filming styles will become "a pioneer of dramatic storytelling" Anyone visiting the new National Theatre studio might experience the soul-destroying mis…
National Theatre director Rufus Norris initiates 'listening project' to help form cultural response to EU referendum resultThe Brexit vote has been a "huge wake-up call" to the arts that the…
'Unapologetically weird' show, one of the star's final projects, to run this winter at the King's Cross TheatreDavid Bowie's stage musical Lazarus, a sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth, is …