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Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres scared of them?

A new report suggests playwriting is in crisis after Covid, with producers retreating into safe old classics. Well, not from where I’m standing

The Guardian - UK

Battle of the brands: Who won with what at the 2025 Tour de France?

A comprehensive tech wrap-up from the men's lap of France

Cycling News

2024 restaurant roundup: looking back on the year’s culinary highs

There are deep wells of culinary talent across the UK, ably battling the challenging economics facing the sector

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Edinburgh fringe artists owed up to £15k each amid venue’s dispute with HMRC

Performers who staged work at Summerhall have not been paid as firm that runs site challenges corporation tax claim

The Guardian - UK

Stage, Exeter: ‘Just know it’s all bloody good’ – restaurant review

Every dish from this superbly talented young cast deserves its moment in the spotlight

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s licensed touting, essentially’: has sky high ticket pricing turned London theatre into the wild West End?

Rising costs, celebrity casts, plain greed? Whatever the cause, charging hundreds of pounds a seat risks excluding the audiences that theatre’s future depends on

The Guardian - UK

Top-price West End theatre tickets rise by 9% in a year and reach £300

The Stage’s annual survey found that, for the first time, three plays in London – including Romeo and Juliet with Tom Holland – are charging more than £200 for their most expensive seat

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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

The Guardian - UK

Strapped, stressed, axed: is it curtains for theatre’s artistic directors?

Indhu Rubasingham has been named as the National’s new head. But elsewhere, theatres are ditching this once coveted role altogether. Can a theatre really manage without one?

The Guardian - UK

Behind the scenes: Rhona Bitner takes us into America’s performance spaces

Rhona Bitner’s evocative photographs are the subject on an exhibition at The Wellin Museum of Art

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‘One year, £100,000’: how an advert for a reality show led to a big British TV mystery

Successful applicants for places on a lucrative-sounding show soon found out there was no cash – and no programme. Two decades later they tell their bizarre story

The Guardian - UK

‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play

Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate

The Guardian - UK

Anita Carey obituary

Actor known for her roles in television comedies, the epic drama The Spoils of War and Coronation Street

The Guardian - UK

What happened when Avenged Sevenfold released a prog metal concept album

With 2016's The Stage Avenged Sevenfold set themselves on a path away from their original heavy metal sound. This is the story...

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The Guardian - UK

It’s time for theatres to stop ghosting the playwrights they have commissioned

Dramatists are increasingly being strung along and ignored. We must act now to save the UK’s great playwriting culture

The Guardian - UK

Angela Thorne obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor best known for her roles in the BBC’s To the Manor Born and the West End farce Anyone for Denis?

The Guardian - UK

‘Rare talent’: Kiln artistic director stands down after 10 years

Indhu Rubasingham’s legacy includes rebrand of north London theatre and bringing culturally diverse voices to stage

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Terrence Hardiman obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor who starred in the BBC children’s TV series The Demon Headmaster

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Daily Mirror

Happy Valley star James Norton's nude photo violation set to trigger huge theatre change

Theatre experts predict drastic changes will be made to West End shows in the future, after Happy Valley star James Norton was pictured on stage naked during a performance - despite the audience being warned not to take pictures

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‘I fear we are losing a whole generation of talent’: ENO head hits back at the ‘leave London’ ultimatum

As she stages a new production of The Dead City, Korngold’s wild opera banned by the Nazis, English National Opera’s artistic director Annilese Miskimmon talks about the company’s strong present and uncertain future

The Guardian - UK

‘Worst party in town’: abusive audiences force UK musicals to tone down ads

Theatre operators and producers changing marketing strategy as rowdy behaviour escalates

Belfast Live

Liam Neeson congratulates Belfast theatre after winning top UK stage award

"I, personally couldn’t be more proud of you all!"

The National (Scotland)

Panto prevails as audiences flock back to theatres despite pressures

DESPITE Covid, Scarlet Fever, flu and sickness bugs, pantomime season in Scotland has been declared a success – oh yes it has!

The National (Scotland)

Council steps in to save famed Scottish theatre from collapse

COUNCILLORS have agreed to help out Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre by giving them £150,000 this year – but have said that the council cannot continue to…

Daily Record

'We can't continue to support the Gaiety forever', councillor says

Councillor Bob Pollock said the famous theatre needs to come up with a viable business plan.

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