Former Lord Mayor William Russell has been elected as chair of the Barbican’s board, which oversees the arts centre’s operations ...

Sunderland Culture chief executive Rebecca Ball has been appointed Arts Council England's new area director for the north ...

Scratch nights have been declining across the country since the Covid-19 pandemic, with industry leaders warning of a “huge impact on emerging artists” as a result. Glasgow, however, is home to ...

Translating real-life stories into theatre comes with practical challenges and great responsibility. Nottingham Playhouse boss Adam Penford gives an insight into the making of James Graham’s Punch, ...

A playwriting competition that items to provide "positive new perspectives" on Blackpool has launched. The Playwriting Competition is part of venue the Old Electric’s previously announced Power Plays ...

With a Regent’s Park Shakespeare in the summer and Wilde at the National Theatre in the winter, Richard Cant is having a very high-profile year. The actor tells Fergus Morgan about some of his ...

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John Cleese has criticised domineering directors who refuse to budge from their own set "vision", ahead of the premiere of his Fawlty Towers stage adaptation ...

Starring Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar, Benedict Andrews’ exhilaratingly radical adaptation brings passion and a playful punk spirit to Chekhov’s classic satire of class and capitalism ...

A stage adaptation of the BBC comedy Inside No.9 will have its world premiere in London’s West End next January, starring creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. The production, Inside No.9 ...

Multiple casualty incident” – a situation in which emergency medical services are overwhelmed by the scale and severity of an event – has many meanings in this intriguing, but frustrating new play by ...

Charity Act for Change, which has campaigned for greater diversity in theatre and television since 2014, is to close. The trustees said in a statement that it was the right time to pass on its remit ...