224 stories by "Mark Brown Arts Correspondent"
Actor, currently playing Shakespeare's villainous king, says Brexit has brought the Bard's historical play a newfound pertinenceIt is a story of vaulting ambition and ruthless scheming which…
Lancashire-born film-maker Danny Boyle introduces official opening of largest arts complex outside London, which will house film, theatre and visual art shows Danny Boyle opened Manchester's…
Tiffany bowl, engraved with name of her terrier Spike, sells for 30 times estimate at auction of late comedian's possessionsA silver dog bowl from which Joan Rivers' terrier once lapped has …
New artistic director has chosen ex-cabaret star to play Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's GlobeEmma Rice's appointment at Shakespeare's Globe was always going to shake t…
Globe theatre's chief, and deputy head of RSC at loggerheads over merits of editing Bard's work to make it more relatable to modern audiencesThey are both leading experts in all things Shake…
Season comprising Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest to be staged at 420-seat venue next to King's Cross stationThe Donmar Warehouse is building a temporary theatre for an all-female Sh…
Talented Mr Ripley actor to join forces with Belgian director next year in Barbican production of 1943 filmJude Law is to return to the London theatre in an adaptation of the Luchino Viscont…
Star Wars actor to play Georg Büchner's barber in theatre's new season, which also features Glenda Jackson as King LearJohn Boyega is temporarily hanging up his lightsaber and will, presuma…
Daniel Evans says theatre has long way to go; proportion of minority workers in the arts fails to match ratio in overall populationBritish theatre has a long way to go to tackle inequality, …
Thomas Adès's opera of Exterminating Angel among new season highlights, as well as Anna Netrebko tackling Norma and Jonas Kaufmann singing OtelloAn opera based on Buñuel's surreal film w…
2016 festival lineup includes The Good Wife actor, who last graced EIF in The Bacchae in 2007, presenting Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs Alan Cumming will this summer make a return to the Ed…
Actor plays a rich, entitled narcissist in his own play transferring from off-Broadway to London's Trafalgar StudiosJesse Eisenberg is to make his British theatre debut in his own play in wh…
Choreographer says show based on 1948 film " a Broadway version of which flopped " will be his love letter to the theatreIt is some people's favourite movie but the stage version was one of …
Almeida Theatre announces 2016-17 schedule with Scott " Moriarty in Sherlock " taking on Shakespeare's toughest roleAfter Sherlock Holmes as Hamlet, now Moriarty will take on the part. It ha…
Main aim of first white paper on culture in more than 50 years is to improve access for people of all backgrounds, Ed Vaizey saysAny arts organisation that receives public money will have to…
Sir Thomas More script is only surviving copy of a play in the bard's hand and is one of 300 texts being digitised in run-up to British Library exhibitionThe last surviving play script handw…
Along with Hare on Osborne, Arts Theatre season includes Alistair Beaton play about a plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn A new play by David Hare imagining George Osborne having a crisis of confiden…
Fans cock a snook at critics with four gongs including best actor at only theatre awards voted for entirely by the publicIt was not universally adored by critics, but Benedict Cumberbatch's …
Fracked! Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word, by Alistair Beaton, to debut as part of final season at Chichester Festival theatreAnne Reid and James Bolam are to star as unlikely anti-fracking c…
Former cabaret star will play Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's GlobeEmma Rice's appointment at Shakespeare's Globe was always going to shake things up so her first piece…
Gough says she was broke before she got role as recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan's People, Places & Things that won her best actress awardIt was called "career-changing", "astonishi…
From a variety show hosted by David Tennant to comedy shows and film adaptions, BBC festival marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's deathA variety show live from Stratford-upon-Avon and ho…
Thiarai, from Doncaster's Cast venue, is succeeding John McGrath, who has been appointed artistic director of Manchester international festival Kully Thiarai has been named artistic director…
Thiarai, from Doncaster's Cast venue, is succeeding John McGrath, who has been appointed artistic director of Manchester international festival Kully Thiarai has been named artistic director…
New artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe theatre aims to get much greater proportion of women on the stageThe fact that just 16% of Shakespeare's characters are women " and that most of …
