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The Guardian view on social mobility in the arts: an enduring scandal

Editorial: New research shows there was never a golden age of opportunity. All the more reason to start pulling down the barriers now

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

‘There are truths that have to be told and they may upset people’: Tony Kushner on Spielberg, Ye and ‘the orange-covered mud devil’

The Angels in America writer talks about antisemitism, homophobia and working on The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s loosely autobiographical film about a teenager obsessed with cinema

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022

The best theatre of 2022

In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

Christmas theatre 2022: the best shows to book in London this festive period

With Christmas around the corner, what better than to celebrate with a festive show. We round up the best that London has to offer

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2022

‘We put Disney in the bin’: Victoria Hamilton-Barritt on being theatre’s top Christmas villain

She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt has bounced back as a tormented ogress in Hex

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2022

Key funding from the Arts Council England helps to 'transform lives' at the Liverpool Philharmonic

The Shakespeare North Trust has been also funded

Liverpool Echo · Nov 12, 2022

Rafe Spall on his blistering role in BBC’s The English: ‘I wanted audiences to be repulsed but also enjoy him’

‘That cliché of having fun playing terrible people is true, I really did have fun’

Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2022

London’s cultural venues from Donmar Warehouse to Royal Opera House respond to major Arts Council funding cuts

Some of the capital’s most prestigious venues face huge funding cuts or removal of Arts Council support altogether

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2022

‘It’s really desperate’: cost of living crisis spells bleak times for British arts venues

Many in the UK’s creative sector are being hit hard by rising fuel costs and reluctant audiences

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2022

Edinburgh film crew spotted on Calton Hill shooting a creepy horror classic

Cameras, costumed actors and a coffin were all seen on Calton Hill on Monday afternoon for the filming of a feature length production.

Edinburgh Live · Oct 18, 2022