How Peter Kay changed British comedy
The beloved Bolton comic, now going on tour for the first time in over a decade, became a national phenomenon…
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English National Opera is a cultural lifeline – but we have been decimated by cuts
Arts Council England’s withdrawal of our general funding will have reverberations across the entire arts ecosystem.
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After a visit to the theatre I feel more of a Brightonian than I did the day before
I’d never been to the Theatre Royal before, but its a delightful, old-school place.
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Jews. In their Own Words is a sharp illustration of how the oldest hatred is still with us
Jonathan Freedland’s play considers the prejudicial myths fuelling anti-Semitism today, and how the Royal Court became complicit.
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From the NS archive: The Cherry Orchard
24 July 1920: The beautiful, mad drama which I had staged often in the dim recesses of my mind was…
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Sporting Notes: At the crease with Harold Pinter
Playing cricket with him for the theatrical team Gaieties CC, I witnessed the great playwright’s passion up close.
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“The festival is more fragile than ever”: the Edinburgh Fringe wars
The Fringe should be enjoying its 75th year. Instead Nish Kumar, Mark Watson and other performers insist it needs reform.
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Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers brings the darker side of Englishness to Glyndebourne
Described as the most important English opera composed between Purcell and Britten, this is its first proper revival in a…
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