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Tuesday briefing: Is there really a crisis in theatre audience behaviour – or is this all overdramatic?

In today’s newsletter: With reported attacks on ushers and police called to handle overzealous audience participation, some argue the sanctity of the stage is under threat

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‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences

On Good Friday, police were called to a performance of The Bodyguard – and there have been numerous other examples of audiences behaving badly. With crowds heckling, screaming, livestreaming and even copulating during shows, what can be done?

The Guardian - UK

‘They are the crucial buyers’: theatres tap into the power of female readers

The Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage

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The week in theatre: A Little Life; Sea Creatures – review

James Norton elevates Ivo van Hove’s knotty adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller. And to the sea as Cordelia Lynn’s breezy new play sets a family adrift

The Guardian - UK

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All the cultural highlights for Easter weekend

The Independent UK

Audience walkouts for James Norton play depicting rape, torture and child abuse

Happy Valley star performs distressing scenes in A Little Life while lying naked on the stage – and ends up covered in blood after graphic depictions of self-harm

Daily Mirror

‘It begins to feel like a freak show’: the disturbing truth of watching A Little Life as a gay man

The suffering is on an operatic scale in this adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-nominated novel — but to what end, asks Jason Okundaye

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A Little Life review: A naive and psychologically incurious narrative of abuse

Ivo Van Hove’s adaptation starring James Norton is cold, surgical and humourless

The Independent UK

A Little Life at the Harold Pinter Theatre review – James Norton gives a towering performance

Though relentlessly bleak, this is a superb piece of theatre

Evening Standard

A Little Life review – James Norton’s sexually abused lawyer is spared no misery

Some called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadism and not a little nudity

The Guardian - UK

A Little Life and misery lit: Have we finally suffered enough?

As Hanya Yanagihara’s novel about a self-harming victim of abuse is adapted for the West End, Eloise Hendy explores how trauma and misery became a literary trend

The Independent UK

A Little Life and misery lit: Have we finally suffered enough?

As Hanya Yanagihara’s novel about a self-harming victim of abuse is adapted for the West End, Eloise Hendy explores how trauma and misery became a literary trend

The Independent UK

James Norton’s nude scenes should have been respected – not violated by pervy photographers

Leaked photographs of the ‘Happy Valley’ star performing nude in ‘A Little Life’ has plunged the theatre world into crisis mode. It speaks to a grotesque violation of the unspoken contract between performer and audience member, writes Jessie Thompson

The Independent UK

James Norton reveals he was more nervous about singing than stripping off in West End play

Happy Valley star James Norton said he was more nervous about singing on stage in his new West End play than getting naked.

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The Independent UK

James Norton describes going to ‘disturbing places’ for A Little Life role

In West End production, ‘Happy Valley’ star plays a deeply troubled lawyer who has been subjected to years of sexual abuse

Evening Standard

OPINION - Phones are taking away our children, we need to ban them in more places

There are times when I swear my daughter has a deeper relationship with her phone than she does with me. Laila is 11 and we bought her an iPhone earlier this year after she waged a relentless campaign that featured crying, begging and accusations that we were going to make…

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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London theatres may ban phones after illicit photos of James Norton published, experts say

Naked photos of the actor were published and then deleted by MailOnline

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Evening Standard

London theatres ‘could ban phones’ after photos of James Norton leaked

Images of the actor appearing nude on stage in London were published on a tabloid newspaper website

The Independent UK

London theatres may ban phones after illicit photos of James Norton published, experts say

Naked photos of the actor were published and then deleted by MailOnline

The Guardian - UK

London theatres may lock up audiences’ phones after illicit James Norton photos

Outrage over naked images of actor published in MailOnline could prompt move to curb cameraphones

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Wild Isles; Match of the Day; Extrapolations; Nazanin; Paula – review

The BBC scored the ultimate own goal and took aim at David Attenborough’s last voyage, while a megawatt cast powered a preachy climate drama. Plus, the poles-apart struggles of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Paula Yates

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James Norton: ‘I’m very aware of how lucky I am’

After his amazing success in Happy Valley, James Norton is taking on another dark role, this time on stage. He talks about his lucky streak, fear of failure, grappling with fame and why cold-water swimming keeps him sane

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ivo van Hove’s cultural highlights

The Olivier-winning theatre director on Paul Mescal’s star turn in Streetcar, an ideal Saturday in south London and the best composer he’d never heard of

The Guardian - UK

James Norton as a disabled jazz drummer? How Jerk’s black humour is revolutionising comedy

The deliciously dark comedy about a man with cerebral palsy is back – and now, celebs are lining up to star in it … and to make you squirm like never before

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