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From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals

Newly arrived in the West End, Disney’s demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the ‘half-blood’ Percy Jackson having a moment in musical theatre?

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Kwame Kwei-Armah: arts education cuts pose danger to diversity in theatre

Outgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools

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‘He knew this was going to be the last story he wrote’: the epic legacy of literary maverick Biyi Bándélé

The film-maker, playwright and novelist finished his last book, Yorùbá Boy Running, the day before he died in 2022. Now, loved ones and collaborators, including his daughter Temi and longtime friend Kwame Kwei-Armah, celebrate the passionate man behind the work

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‘They said I was trying to make it the Black National Theatre’: Kwame Kwei-Armah on his trailblazing Young Vic tenure

Under his leadership, the theatre has become a hothouse for innovative, and sometimes controversial work work. On the eve of his departure, he looks back over his ‘three acts’ in the limelight

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Young Vic theatre announces Nadia Fall as new artistic director

Fall, who currently runs Theatre Royal Stratford East, will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah in January

The Guardian - UK

Stratford East boss Nadia Fall takes over at Young Vic theatre

She takes over after seven years in east London.

Evening Standard

Theatre needs risk-takers like Kwame Kwei-Armah whose Young Vic has been dynamite

The first African Caribbean figure to lead a major British theatre has announced his departure but his bold approach must remain

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Kwame Kwei-Armah steps down from Young Vic and calls for ‘government intervention’ for theatres

Artistic director will leave in the autumn after six years in the post, and says without further investment the stage sector’s ‘pipeline of talent’ could be lost

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Young Vic's Kwame Kwei-Armah stands down and warns of 'painful reality' for UK theatre

The actor and director warned of dark times to come for London theatre unless the Government takes action

Evening Standard

They have all earned Britain’s thanks: 20 Black heroes who should be on a postage stamp

To mark Black History Month, we asked an all-star panel to tell us who they would celebrate for their contribution to British society

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Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’

Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming

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The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review

Harold Pinter theatre; Young Vic; Barbican; Hampstead theatre, LondonMark Rylance mesmerises as the tormented Hungarian doctor; Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new satire is all too timely

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Beneatha’s Place at the Young Vic review – this bracingly stimulating play has found its moment

This work about race and the ownership of history could not feel more timely

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‘Once in a lifetime’: Ruth Wilson to star in 24-hour show The Second Woman at Young Vic

Wilson to enact single, seven-minute scene on loop with 100 men to explore gender roles

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Life of footballers Justin and John Fashanu being adapted into ITV drama

Fash will chart their lives from childhoods spent in Barnardo’s care homes to becoming household names.

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Movie review: John Boyega stars in true story of a veteran at his 'Breaking' point

The tragic case of Brian Brown-Easley didn’t take the nation by storm back in 2017 when he walked into a Marietta, Georgia, Wells Fargo branch and passed the teller a note reading, “I have a bomb.” But attention was what the former Marine demanded, and deserved, in that moment of…

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Warhol and Basquiat to be reborn on screen in movie of hit Young Vic play

Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope star in The Collaboration, which shows the artists in 1980s New York

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‘The Collaboration’: Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat relationship explored in upcoming Broadway play

NEW YORK — Warhol and Basquiat are Broadway bound.

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‘This is a generational moment’: civil rights group for black Britons launches

Black Equity Organisation, whose trustees include David Lammy and Dame Vivian Hunt, aims to dismantle systemic racism in UK

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UK’s first national Black civil rights organisation launched by cross-section of influential figures

A national and independent civil rights group, founded by some of the most influential Black people in the country, has been set up to advance justice for Britain’s Black communities.

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Premiere of Mandela musical to be flagship for Young Vic in 2022

Theatre’s chief hopes production gives younger people understanding of the price paid by radicals in the past

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