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The Latest Breaking News from the National Theatre

Michael Blakemore obituary

Acclaimed theatre director admired for his productions of Kiss Me Kate and Copenhagen

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

Gift memberships: the best UK gallery, museum, cinema and theatre deals this Christmas

Giving subscriptions as a present helps the culture sector plug its finances and saves money too

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‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre appoints Indhu Rubasingham as first female director

She succeeds Rufus Norris, under whose leadership the theatre enjoyed its biggest audiences

The Independent UK

Indhu Rubasingham chosen as National Theatre’s next director

Artistic director of the Kiln theatre will take over from Rufus Norris in spring 2025

The Guardian - UK

Indhu Rubasingham is the perfect choice for the National Theatre

The NT’s newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability – and the magnificently unexpected – to her new post

The Guardian - UK

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From the Upside Down, it's Patrick Vaill on Stranger Things - The First Shadow: The Standard Theatre Podcast

Also: reviews of The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre and the Orange Tree's She Stoops to Conquer

Evening Standard

On my radar: Chris Bush’s cultural highlights

The award-winning playwright on one of pop’s most extraordinary voices, role-playing drag queens and the scathing wit of her favourite foodie website

The Guardian - UK

Bill Kenwright obituary

Producer of stage hits including Blood Brothers who took Medea to Broadway and served as the chairman of Everton FC

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre in London to pilot earlier start times for evening shows

Midweek performances at the South Bank theatre will start at 6.30pm from February to allow more post-theatre socialising or earlier bedtimes

The Independent UK

OPINION - 6.30pm starts at the theatre? Best idea ever - and it might boost dwindling audiences too

The National Theatre is trialling earlier starts to some shows which is the best news I've had in ages

Evening Standard

National Theatre in London to pilot earlier start times

Midweek performances to start at 6.30pm from February to fit with post-Covid working patterns

The Guardian - UK

The National Theatre’s earlier start times are a great result for audiences

A pilot scheme means some performances will now begin at 6.30pm. That means more time for eating, travelling and – most importantly – discussing the show

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Playwright Alexander Zeldin: ‘Lots of people can make a living being an artist in France. In the UK, that’s not the case’

The Paris-based British playwright, back in the UK with The Confessions, inspired by conversations with his mother, talks about the secrets she revealed

The Guardian - UK

London’s Kiln theatre appoints Amit Sharma as artistic director

Sharma, who directed the theatre’s acclaimed production Retrograde, will take over from Indhu Rubasingham in December

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

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

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Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died

Evening Standard

Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

Evening Standard

OPINION - Evening Standard Theatre Podcast: Paul Bazely interview, reviews of Red Pitch and God of Carnage

‘It’s the strange thing when you’re playing an icon... I wanted to find out what it was like to be him as a man’

Evening Standard

How 2023 became the year of the wine bar

A new wave of wine bars is taking the capital’s coolest postcodes by storm and slaking the thirst of younger drinkers. Ben McCormack takes a sip

The Guardian - UK

Exit, pursued by stress: bosses of smaller UK theatres quit in droves

String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens

The Conversation

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – new play is an angry demand for accountability

The National Theatre’s new play, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, written by Gillian Slovo and directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike, aims to offer a voice to survivors of the fire.

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Tucker obituary

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

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