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Rupert Goold to join The Old Vic as artistic director after leaving the Almeida

Goold oversaw productions such as Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening, Richard III, Patriots, King Charles III and Ink at the Almeida

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024

Rupert Goold named as next artistic director of Old Vic

Goold says he is seeking new challenge after more than a decade in charge at the Almeida theatre

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024

The Old Vic announces Rupert Goold as new artistic director

Goold said he will be joining with ‘excitement and trepidation’

The Independent UK · Nov 27, 2024

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The Guardian view on Look Back in Anger: still shocking

Editorial: Toxic masculinity is centre stage in a timely revival of John Osborne’s 1956 classic

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2024

Roots/Look Back in Anger at the Almeida review: the ferocious roar of angry young men and women resonate down the decades

It is a particularly ripe moment to bring back two plays about the anger of younger generations with two plays that couldn’t be more different

Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2024

Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher

Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above-average temperatures as the country, the world’s largest coffee producer, faces its worst drought in more than seven decades

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2024

The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review

Extraordinary performances from five actors all playing the writer Annie Ernaux add up to a five-star adaptation of her Nobel prize-winning book. And a fairytale take on Pericles

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

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London play pauses after graphic abortion scene leaves theatregoers feeling faint

‘The Years’ is based on French author Annie Ernaux’s 2008 autobiography ‘Les Années’

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2024

London play paused after theatregoers felt faint during abortion scene

Mainly male audience members had to step out of preview performance of The Years after graphic scene

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2024

From the Arctic Circle to the top of European theatre: director Eline Arbo on being ‘an outsider looking in’

The Norwegian theatremaker talks about succeeding Ivo van Hove as artistic director of one of the influential Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and staging classic plays as rock concerts

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2024

Spring fashion trends special 2024 — the chicest dresses, jeans and jackets to launch into the new season

Spring into spring with 12 fashion editor approved trends to refresh your look — from the new easy dresses to the joy jacket and blanc jeans

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2024

How to get cheap theatre tickets in the West End: we reveal the secrets to bagging those seats

From knowing the best websites to sneaking in as a filler (sssshhhh), we’ve got all the tricks

Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2024

Alison Oliver interview, reviews of Old Friends and Close Up: The Twiggy Musical - The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

This week on the Evening Standard Theatre Podcast, Conversations with Friends star Alison Oliver joins Nick Curtis to talk about playing the title role in Portia Coughlan, opening soon at the Almeida Theatre.

Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2023

The week in theatre: A Mirror; Next to Normal – review

Sam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder is edgily transfixing

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2023

A Mirror review – Pirandellian wedding drama throws a bouquet of unrealities

Sam Holcroft’s drama delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch

Evening Standard · Aug 24, 2023

A Mirror at the Almeida Theatre review: thrilling and infuriating in equal measure

Clever, thoughtful and tricksy, Sam Holcroft’s work about a playwright in an authoritarian regime is also exasperating

The National (Scotland) · Jun 21, 2023

Axed Covid vaccine deal with Livingston firm cost taxpayers £358m

THE UK Government has been accused of “absolutely shafting” a Scottish vaccine plant after it emerged a contract it axed cost taxpayers £358.6…

The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2023

Black Mirror’s Anjana Vasan: ‘I’ve been underestimated because I’m small, brown and foreign’

The award-winning star of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ tells Ellie Harrison about subverting stereotypes, and playing a reluctant serial killer in Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology thriller

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Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2023

National Theatre: Runners and riders to replace Rufus Norris in top job

Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre leaves a gap at the top of British Theatre but there is no shortage of potential successors.

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2023

‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023

The week in theatre: Retrograde; The Secret Life of Bees; Dixon and Daughters – review

Kiln; Almeida; Dorfman, LondonIn his quickfire new McCarthy-era play, For Black Boys… creator Ryan Calais Cameron speaks his mind; a civil rights musical buzzes with potential; and Deborah Bruce’s domestic abuse drama is full of surprises

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2023

The Secret Life of Bees review – blazing songs light up civil rights drama

A young white woman and her Black housekeeper flee across the American south amid the historic struggle, buoyed by astonishingly powerful music

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2023

My Neighbour Totoro triumphs at Olivier awards

Adaptation of Studio Ghibli film wins six awards, while Jodie Comer wins for Prima Facie and A Streetcar Named Desire brings Paul Mescal best actor prize

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2023

Streetcar director Rebecca Frecknall: ‘I thought Paul Mescal was too young for Stanley but Brando was only 27’

Since her breakthrough show in 2018, Frecknall has gone from being virtually unknown to one of theatre’s most in-demand directors

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal transfers to West End

Critically acclaimed and now boasting an Oscar nominee, the Almeida’s Tennessee Williams production will move to the Phoenix theatre this spring

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