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Meet Tatenda Shamiso: the young actor amplifying trans voices on stage

Evening Standard Theatre Award winner for Emerging Talent, Tatenda Shamiso caught the industry's attention earlier this year with his play, No ID. He speaks to Isobel Van Dyke about disappointment in the UK's treatment of the trans community, as well as inspirations and hopes for the future

Evening Standard

Susan Wokoma interview, Backstairs Billy review, and animals on stage! - The Standard Theatre Podcast

The Taskmaster favourite talked to us ahead of hosting the 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Knocking on the Wall; To Have and to Hold; Mates in Chelsea – review

An exemplary staging of short plays by overlooked Ena Lamont Stewart; Alun Armstrong is at his hangdog best in Richard Bean’s warm retirement drama; and toffs get both barrels in a heavy-handed satire

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Play with cast of disabled and autistic actors to open at London’s Royal Court

Imposter 22 will run for three weeks at renowned Sloane Square theatre and comes after series of workshops

The Guardian - UK

West End boom masks perfect storm facing London theatre

Audiences are flocking back to Theatreland but beyond the bright lights, venues are struggling in the economic headwinds

Evening Standard

‘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

The week in theatre: Alter; Word-Play; Ride – review

Catalan company Kamchàtka create an enticing piece of site-specific theatre in the unlikeliest of places; a dinner party turns nasty at the Royal Court; and around the world in bloomers

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Royal Court appoints New Diorama’s David Byrne as its artistic director

Byrne will succeed Vicky Featherstone, who leaves the Sloane Square venue after more than a decade, in 2024

Evening Standard

Royal Court theatre appoints New Diorama’s David Byrne as artistic director

Byrne, who is also an award-winning playwright, said he would ‘shape a rejuvenating culture’ at one of London’s most prestigious theatres

The Guardian - UK

David Byrne is a radical, dynamic appointment for the Royal Court

The theatre’s new artistic director proved himself a canny commercialist attuned to promising writing at the New Diorama. How will his maverick sensibility adapt to a major venue?

The Guardian - UK

Cuckoo review – springy dialogue lifts slow study of a modern family

Three generations of women in a Merseyside house banter, bicker and disappear into their smartphones in this nuanced play from Michael Wynne

The Guardian - UK

Cuckoo at the Royal Court Theatre review: amusing but aimless play fails to take flight

Well acted and fluently directed but ultimately it’s all a bit baffling

Evening Standard

Andrew Treagus obituary

One of Britain’s leading theatrical general managers responsible for the transfer of big Broadway musicals to the West End

The Guardian - UK

Meet London’s leading emerging writers

Getting lit! Who are London’s leading emerging writers? Joanna Taylor finds them working everywhere from the London Library — described by stationer Montblanc as the home of the written word, FYI — to The Peckham Pelican

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Former Jordanian PM Mudar Badran Passes Away

Mudar Badran, a retired former Jordanian intelligence director, head of the royal court, and prime minister, will be buried on Sunday. He withdrew from political work in the early 1990s and remained committed to a tradition of silence, staying out of the limelight and positions. He was born in Jerash,…

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Saudi Crown Prince Meets Transitional President of Chad in Jeddah

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz met with the President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council Mahamat Idriss Deby in Jeddah on Monday. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral relations and cooperation in all fields, as well as issues of mutual interest. The meeting was attended by…

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Turki Al-Sheikh Honors Winners of 'Otr Al Kalam' Competition

The adviser at the Royal Court, Turki Al Al-Sheikh, chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), presented awards to the 20 winners of the “Otr Al Kalam” program in its final episode, on Friday. Saudi contestant Mohammed Al-Sharif, was awarded SAR 2 million ($533,300) for…

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The week in theatre: Debate, Black Superhero, Further than the Furthest Thing – review

An intimate venue brings Baldwin and Buckley’s clash back to life; Danny Lee Wynter falls foul of a caped crusader (and too much exposition); and an island is threatened by outsiders

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Saudi: More Than 120 Million Visitors in Entertainment Sector Since 2019

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority, Adviser at the Royal Court, Turki Al Al-Sheikh, has said that entertainment events held by GEA have received a record number of more than 120 million visitors between 2019 and the first quarter of 2023. Al-Sheikh said Sunday…

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