Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Clint Dyer

Michelle Gomez steps down from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest play for ‘personal reasons’

‘Doctor Who’ star will be replaced by ‘The Crown’ actor Olivia Williams

The Independent UK

Wretch 32 at the National Theatre: Palpable anger in genre-blending show

4/5 Little Simz and Kano join Wretch 32 to bring his politically and emotionally charged album HOME? to life in an impassioned melding of theatre and music

Evening Standard

‘You become addicted to pressure’: Rufus Norris on success, stress and the National Theatre’s survival

He has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to take up carpentry and design kayaks

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The week in theatre: Death of England: The Plays; Grapes of Wrath; Please Right Back – review

Thomas Coombes and Paapa Essiedu grip in an all too timely revival of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation monologues. Plus, slow-motion Steinbeck and 1927’s latest flight of fancy

The Guardian - UK

Death of England: Michael/Delroy at @sohoplace review – these raging, raw shows are exactly what the West End needs

The first two parts of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ exploration of the white and black working-class experience are full of swagger, banter and furious feeling

Evening Standard

Death of England: The Plays review – Brexit-voting bailiff electrifies this post-Boris revamp

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ riotous plays are a little unwieldy in this revival but the antagonised politics remains clear – and Paapa Essiedu is sensational

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

Where does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallowed confines of ‘the Studio’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End

Trio of plays by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter

The Guardian - UK

Philip Hedley, former Theatre Royal Stratford East artistic director, dies aged 85

Clint Dyer leads tributes to director who ran the London venue for 25 years and was a ‘pioneer of diversity in British theatre’

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Indhu Rubasingham: why she's the perfect choice for head of the National Theatre

The outgoing director of the Kiln inherits a strong artistic legacy but the finances are a lot less fun

Evening Standard

After 60 years, when will the biggest job in UK theatre go to a woman? Why not now?

Only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that, says the Guardian’s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar

The Guardian - UK

Clint Dyer on the NT at 60 and Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard - The Standard Theatre Podcast

Plus we talk to Charlie Brooks about her 'emotional' West End debut

Evening Standard

National Theatre Deputy Director says its next boss should be a woman

The theatre's next artistic director is expected to be announced in a few months time

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Death of England: Closing Time at the National Theatre review – uniquely brilliant

Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Hayley Squires are riveting, creating a love-hate relationship that feels deep, detailed and combustively alive

The Guardian - UK

Death of England: Closing Time review – riotous comedy with a serious sting

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble

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

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘We messed with some heads’: Roy Williams on tackling a torn nation in Death of England

As his series co-created with Clint Dyer continues at the National Theatre, the playwright revisits how a Guardian microplay about sport led to a panorama of Britain in tumult

The Guardian - UK

Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

Tribune News Service

Broadway-bound ‘Ali’ musical to premiere in Muhammad Ali’s Kentucky hometown

NEW YORK — Theater audiences will get to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee when a new musical based on Muhammad Ali enters the ring.

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: From Othello to Vardy v Rooney

A guide to the week’s theatre

Evening Standard

Othello at the National Theatre review - Giles Terera shines in this powerful, brutal staging

Almost everything in Clint Dyer’s production is harsh and stark

The Guardian - UK

Othello review – Clint Dyer makes this tragedy feel utterly new

Giles Terera stars in a thrilling production with a radical climax that explores the domestic violence in Shakespeare’s play

WEKU

Producers hope to take new Muhammad Ali musical all the way to Broadway

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.