The Latest Breaking News from Simon Stone

Alicia Vikander: "I'm rehearsing my play with an AI Andrew Lincoln!"

The Oscar-winning actor is making her theatre debut in a new version of Ibsen at the Bridge. It’s still a work in progress — and she’s freaking out

Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2025

Alicia Vikander rehearsed with 'AI Andrew Lincoln' before West End debut

The Ex Machina star admitted she used an AI version of her co-star to prepare for her role in The Lady from the Sea

Evening Standard · Sep 9, 2025

‘It will be frightening but you have to do it’: Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander’s nerve-shredding stage return

Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2025

Innocence review – monumental achievement shows how essential opera can be

Adelaide festival Finnish opera of staggering depth by Kaija Saariaho and directed by Simon Stone, set in the aftermath of a school shooting

The Guardian - AU · Mar 1, 2025

Moving opera Innocence to headline Adelaide Festival

The contemporary opera Innocence, directed by Australian Simon Stone, will headline the 2025 Adelaide Festival.

AAP · Aug 26, 2024

Opera about a school shooting's aftermath has its US premiere in San Francisco

The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of an opera, “Innocence,” that will get its U.S. premiere in San Francisco beginning June 1

The Independent UK · May 28, 2024

One of London’s best-preserved Huguenot houses in Spitalfields hits the market for £4 million

The house is 303 years old, and would originally have been home to a wealthy Huguenot merchant

Evening Standard · Sep 10, 2023

Manchester United takeover twist as Sheikh Jassim 'exclusivity' claim made

The Man Utd takeover has taken a twist with reports claiming Sheikh Jassim is set to be granted exclusivity in the negotiating process ahead of Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Manchester Evening News · Jun 15, 2023

‘One of the most important works of our time’ – inside Innocence, Kaija Saariaho’s school-shooting opera

Sung in nine languages, with music by one of the world’s most acclaimed composers, Innocence comes to the UK this month. The team behind it reveal how it drew on everything from The Last Supper to Finnish cowherding music

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2023

Greek tragedies like Medea are an ethical nightmare. That’s why we need them

Ancient classics can reinforce patriarchal lies about women, but they also take us back to the origins of pernicious narratives, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2023