With the reopening of indoor venues delayed, it’s open season for outdoor performances with companies heading out into the sunshineIf you want to watch live theatre in the UK, you currently have two options: go online or into the great outdoors. With s…
Continue ReadingFor years, sexual predators have infested the live comedy scene. But female comedians are demanding action. Is this British standup’s #MeToo moment?‘If this was a normal office where, on your first day, someone higher up than you goes: ‘Here’s a list o…
Continue ReadingWith this year’s Edinburgh festival cancelled, performers including Sara Pascoe, Deborah Frances-White and Gary McNair will be broadcasting live from the tiniest of venuesIt started as a throwaway pun. With the Edinburgh festival cancelled by Covid-19,…
Continue ReadingTristram Kenton’s photographs have accompanied reviews in the Guardian for more than 30 years. Ahead of a series of themed galleries, we open up his archive with 40 fabulous shots Continue reading…
Continue ReadingWhen you’ve shared jokes since childhood, you can be brutally honest with each other. Flo & Joan and Ruby Wax’s daughters, Maddy and Marina Bye, on becoming family double acts They’ve been described as “the other popular comedy duo” from TV’s golde…
Continue ReadingIn the final part of our series, UK arts figures give the lowdown on the precious places that nurtured their careers‘I’ve wrestled, climbed the walls and got a black eye there’Robert Softley Gale is the artistic director of Birds of Paradise.Laura Carm…
Continue ReadingNadia Albina, Ivo Graham, Cherylee Houston and more share memories of the theatres that they call homeIvo Graham’s Game of Life UK tour has been rescheduled. Read more about Pleasance Courtyard.Nadia Albina stars in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Othe…
Continue ReadingKerry Godliman, Genevieve Barr, James Graham and more share memories of the theatres that changed their livesKerry Godliman’s new podcast, Memory Lane, is released by Entale in August. Read more about the White Bear.Hannah Khalil is under commission to…
Continue ReadingMichael Longhurst, Rebecca Front, Nathaniel Martello-White and more discuss the theatres that have inspired and challenged themMichael Longhurst is the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. His National Theatre production of Amadeus is online unti…
Continue ReadingSusan Wokoma recalls plays backed by birdsong, Tallulah Brown found a fairytale in the reeds and Gregory Doran takes a trip back to LancasterRead the rest of our series on the theatres that made us Tallulah Brown’s play When the Birds Come was at the E…
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