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Twelve culture secretaries in 13 years: what does that say about the Tories’ attitude to the arts?

From Jeremy Hunt to Nadine Dorries and the rest, recent incumbents have overseen a massive reduction in funding, and steadily downgraded the place of the arts in national life

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Wood obituary

Other lives: Head of the press office at the National Theatre and executive director at the Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve become more fearless’: Tuppence Middleton on OCD, motherhood and playing Elizabeth Taylor

The Downton Abbey actor loves to keep a low profile. So how does she feel about portraying one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and headline-grabbing stars – and writing a book about her own mental health?

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Dear England at the National Theatre makes an unlikely stage hero out of Gareth Southgate

Our football correspondent puts on his commentators’ hat for the National Theatre’s latest kickabout

Evening Standard

Dear England at the National Theatre review: James Graham scores again with this thrilling football drama

The Nottingham playmaker takes on the England football team’s recent highs and lows in a brilliant fusion of sport and art

Evening Standard

Dear England review – touching, funny retelling of Gareth Southgate’s quiet revolution

National Theatre, LondonIt’s a game of two halves, but James Graham’s dramatisation of Southgate rescuing a languishing England team delivers tension and movement

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

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National Theatre joins London venues to create first ‘sustainable production centre’

The new partnership with the likes of Young Vic and Royal Court will facilitate the sharing of costumes, props and scenery

Evening Standard

Rufus Norris has made the National Theatre more diverse – on both sides of the curtain

The director, who has announced he is stepping down, should be credited for opening up the organisation and steering it through the Covid crisis. Now, who’s next for the NT job?

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre: Runners and riders to replace Rufus Norris in top job

Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre leaves a gap at the top of British Theatre but there is no shortage of potential successors.

Evening Standard

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre director: ‘The greatest privilege of my career’

British director joked that he wanted to be remembered as ‘someone whose dress sense got better as time went on’

The Independent UK

Dear England: ‘Footballers are like the modern Gladiator; stadiums are our Colosseums’

James Graham’s latest play unearths the Shakespearean dramas within the great game, and finds an unlikely hero in Gareth Southgate

Evening Standard

‘He’s built a new England’: Joseph Fiennes on tackling the role of football’s Gareth Southgate

For Joseph Fiennes, a new play about England football manager Gareth Southgate is a glorious chance to change his game. He talks about typecasting, his unusual childhood – and what happened when he stood up to Harvey Weinstein

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‘I do like a shock’: Martin McDonagh on why casting Lily Allen in The Pillowman makes it even more electrifying

His 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing

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Blackadder's Tony Robinson on why another actor originally played Baldrick

Sir Tony Robinson on unearthing the previously unaired pilot episode of historical sitcom Blackadder and why he's not in it!

Irish Mirror

Lost first episode of Blackadder with different actor playing Baldrick will air in UK

Philip Fox, who later had roles in Midsomer Murders and Waking the Dead, replaced Tony Robinson after he pulled out to take a year-long role with the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

The arts in Britain are teetering on the brink. Here is my plan to save them

The Arts Council should focus on high-quality performances while a new body deals with community-based initiatives, says Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director at the National Theatre

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Evening Standard

Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

The Week

Dancing at Lughnasa review: ‘a beautiful production of a beautiful play’

First staged in 1990, Brian Friel’s “magnificent memory play” Dancing at Lughnasa has been revived at the National Theatre, said Sarah Crompton on What’s On Stage. And the production, directed by Josie Rourke, is a “glory”. The story is told from the point of view of a man called Michael,…

Evening Standard

King Charles faces dilemma over coronation invite for exiled former aide Fawcett

Royal experts do not expect Fawcett to attend the ceremony

The Guardian - UK

‘Our identity is being stolen’: survivors plead for halt to dramas about Grenfell

Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell fire: National Theatre play to tell survivors’ stories

Production is at centre of collaboration with west London community affected by the disaster

The Guardian - UK

‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage

The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths

The Guardian - UK

A wordless death, a dazzling new talent and a 50-day squat: is Athens the hotbed of European theatre?

Thirty directors from all over Europe converged on Greece for a showcase of its fizzing new talent that even included a play about the Nazis by Tony Kushner. What did they learn on this five-day odyssey?

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