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The Latest Breaking News from the National Theatre

Andrew Scott And Sophie Okonedo Win Top Honors At Awards

Discover the winners of the 33rd U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards celebrating excellence in the U.K. theater scene.

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Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan is a call to arms at the NHS’s moment of maximum peril

The Welsh actor’s performance at the National Theatre is timely. Let’s just hope it’s not too late to save the patient, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Olivier Awards 2024: nominations in full including nods for Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker

The National Theatre’s stellar year is recognised with 15 nominations

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Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleagues

The Guardian - UK

‘I could have written three plays about her’: Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage

The coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows

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Creative industries get budget boost including £26m for National Theatre

Chancellor also announces tax relief measures to encourage film-makers to shoot more movies in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

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A stage in life: Why apprenticeships are so vital in the creative sector

More than nine out of ten entry-level apprentices who completed their training with the National Theatre have gone into paid professional work in the same area they were trained in

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Big Boys star Dylan Llewellyn: ‘I’d quite like to play a right horrible git’

Can the Big Boys star really be as nice as the gentle teen he plays? As the hit comedy wraps up its second season, he reflects on dyslexia, finding acting by accident – and how Derry Girls saved him

The Guardian - UK

Hessian hyena and a pack of playful concepts reveal bright future for stage design

The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers’ royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus

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Michael Gambon remembered by David Hare

The playwright recalls his collaborations with the charismatic actor whose mix of mischief and vulnerability endeared him to everyone from Arthur Miller to Bill Nighy

The Guardian - UK

A truly national theatre must get out of London more

Letters: The National Theatre’s new artistic director must ensure that it engages with the regions, writes Ian Wood

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Indhu Rubasingham’s National Theatre in-tray: lure megastars, deal with crises and define an era

The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity

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

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Michael Blakemore obituary

Acclaimed theatre director admired for his productions of Kiss Me Kate and Copenhagen

The Guardian - UK

Strapped, stressed, axed: is it curtains for theatre’s artistic directors?

Indhu Rubasingham has been named as the National’s new head. But elsewhere, theatres are ditching this once coveted role altogether. Can a theatre really manage without one?

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Gift memberships: the best UK gallery, museum, cinema and theatre deals this Christmas

Giving subscriptions as a present helps the culture sector plug its finances and saves money too

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‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks

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The Independent UK

National Theatre appoints Indhu Rubasingham as first female director

She succeeds Rufus Norris, under whose leadership the theatre enjoyed its biggest audiences

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Indhu Rubasingham is the perfect choice for the National Theatre

The NT’s newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability – and the magnificently unexpected – to her new post

The Guardian - UK

Indhu Rubasingham chosen as National Theatre’s next director

Artistic director of the Kiln theatre will take over from Rufus Norris in spring 2025

Evening Standard

From the Upside Down, it's Patrick Vaill on Stranger Things - The First Shadow: The Standard Theatre Podcast

Also: reviews of The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre and the Orange Tree's She Stoops to Conquer

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Chris Bush’s cultural highlights

The award-winning playwright on one of pop’s most extraordinary voices, role-playing drag queens and the scathing wit of her favourite foodie website

The Guardian - UK

Bill Kenwright obituary

Producer of stage hits including Blood Brothers who took Medea to Broadway and served as the chairman of Everton FC

The Independent UK

National Theatre in London to pilot earlier start times for evening shows

Midweek performances at the South Bank theatre will start at 6.30pm from February to allow more post-theatre socialising or earlier bedtimes

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