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The Choral: this moving first world war film reveals the power of music to transcend despair

Set in the Oxfordshire village of Ramsden in 1916, The Choral inhabits a world where the war is distant – yet its shadow lies over every street. Many of the young men are gone to the front, their names echoing through the church and village hall. Those left behind hover…

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From fiasco to feted: the story of the Dream of Gerontius, the revolutionary music of The Choral

The Choral depicts an amateur choral society in wartime Yorkshire taking on Elgar’s trailblazing and controversial work. But how much does Alan Bennett’s fiction reflect actual fact?

The Guardian - UK

The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes makes pleasant music in low-volume drama

The actor is a reliably committed presence in this gentle Alan Bennett-scripted first world war tale which might have worked better on stage

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Nicholas Hytner’s revels return with bawdy, uninhibited mischief

The immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play’s shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical characters

The Guardian - UK

Arts Council England a victim of ‘London-centric’ media coverage, CEO says

Darren Henley says regional arts leaders do not have same newspaper coverage as those in the capital

The Guardian - UK

Richard II review – Jonathan Bailey exudes charisma as a cocaine-snorting king of misrule

Nicholas Hytner’s production plays like a thriller, while Brigerton star Bailey glitters with feeling in a potently physical modern-dress production

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out

Bridgerton, then Wicked, gave Jonathan Bailey a huge fanbase, but the responsibility on the actor to use his platform is intense

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It’s the best show of the year – but Christmas performances shouldn’t be the only theatre at school

You’ll never find an audience or a cast more invested than at a seasonal show, where kids find their feet in front of you. But performing arts provision for the youngest is in peril

The Guardian - UK

Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

The Guardian - UK

Hats off to Dame Maggie Smith in a fitting tribute

Letters: Dramatic millinery | Laura Kuenssberg’s briefing notes | The Vatican’s rules | Small moments of joy

The Guardian - UK

‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner

The stage and screen director, who filmed Smith in The Lady in the Van, recalls her unblinking wit at work on stage in A German Life

The Guardian - UK

Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey star to play Richard II on London stage

Role will be actor’s most high-profile Shakespeare part to date

The Independent UK

Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date

The Guardian - UK

‘Absolute outrage’: arts in state schools must be a priority for next government, say theatre leaders

Sir Nicholas Hytner, Nancy Medina and Theresa Heskins stress importance of sidelined drama, dance and music studies and say the arts are a ‘necessity for all’

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Love him or loathe him, James Corden is back in the UK. So will the sniping now stop?

After massive TV success in the US, the creator of Gavin & Stacey is about to appear on the London stage. But why do British audiences find him so hard to love?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the adaptation of bestselling book The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Jonah Hauer-King , Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey star in the chilling drama. Plus, Taskmaster on top form. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘I was always able to get away with things’: Daniel Mays on playing bent coppers, acting opposite Michael Douglas, and working-class bias

It’s a huge leap from playing a bent copper in Line of Duty to starring in the musical Guys & Dolls, but if anyone can make a role work, it’s actor Daniel Mays

Evening Standard

Working Assumptions Extract: AI will empower us all and it will start in London

One of London’s hottest theatrical nights out is an immersive trip to Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre where standing with the actors in the stalls is the best “seat” in the house. This was of course once unheard of. I’m sure in early rehearsals it made the work…

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The Guardian - UK

James Corden to return to London stage in political drama The Constituent

Joe Penhall’s new play marks the talkshow host’s first theatre role since One Man, Two Guvnors and will see him star opposite Anna Maxwell Martin at the Old Vic

The Guardian - UK

John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism

US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt’s drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David Byrne

The Guardian - UK

Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage awards

Nicole Scherzinger-led musical bags seven prizes at awards show voted for by theatregoers

The Guardian - UK

Oliver! review – tunes, glorious tunes and a thrillingly vivid production

James Brining’s exemplary staging solves every problem – the antisemitism, the coercive romance – that Lionel Bart’s joyous, beloved but difficult musical presents

Evening Standard

Andrew Richardson, debut star of Guys & Dolls, on boarding school, meeting Hugh Jackman and his breakout role

He was a total unknown before the show, how he's an Emerging Talent nominee at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023

Evening Standard

The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: a glittering night with the brightest stars of London theatre

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

The Guardian - UK

As it turns 60, the National Theatre must balance past and present

The NT has a civic duty to revive woefully neglected plays from the world repertory. Doing so will make modern drama stronger

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