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OPINION - 6.30pm starts at the theatre? Best idea ever - and it might boost dwindling audiences too

The National Theatre is trialling earlier starts to some shows which is the best news I've had in ages

Evening Standard

National Theatre in London to pilot earlier start times

Midweek performances to start at 6.30pm from February to fit with post-Covid working patterns

The Guardian - UK

The National Theatre’s earlier start times are a great result for audiences

A pilot scheme means some performances will now begin at 6.30pm. That means more time for eating, travelling and – most importantly – discussing the show

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Playwright Alexander Zeldin: ‘Lots of people can make a living being an artist in France. In the UK, that’s not the case’

The Paris-based British playwright, back in the UK with The Confessions, inspired by conversations with his mother, talks about the secrets she revealed

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London’s Kiln theatre appoints Amit Sharma as artistic director

Sharma, who directed the theatre’s acclaimed production Retrograde, will take over from Indhu Rubasingham in December

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As it turns 60, the National Theatre must balance past and present

The NT has a civic duty to revive woefully neglected plays from the world repertory. Doing so will make modern drama stronger

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Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

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Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died

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Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

Evening Standard

OPINION - Evening Standard Theatre Podcast: Paul Bazely interview, reviews of Red Pitch and God of Carnage

‘It’s the strange thing when you’re playing an icon... I wanted to find out what it was like to be him as a man’

Evening Standard

How 2023 became the year of the wine bar

A new wave of wine bars is taking the capital’s coolest postcodes by storm and slaking the thirst of younger drinkers. Ben McCormack takes a sip

Evening Standard

Exit, pursued by stress: bosses of smaller UK theatres quit in droves

String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – new play is an angry demand for accountability

The National Theatre’s new play, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, written by Gillian Slovo and directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike, aims to offer a voice to survivors of the fire.

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Leonard Tucker obituary

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

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Writer of Grenfell play says people must be jailed for what happened

Gillian Slovo’s play at National Theatre uses words of survivors of 2017 fire at west London tower block

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Pearl Mackie: ‘I think this might be the most important job I ever do’

The ‘Doctor Who’ star talks to Nicole Vassell about playing the chair of the Grenfell survivors’ collective, the impact of queer roles and her quarter-life breakdown

Evening Standard

‘We wanted the words of Grenfell survivors to sound out from a national stage’

Grenfell: in the words of the survivors opens at the National Theatre next week

The Guardian - UK

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

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Stephen Wood obituary

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

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‘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?

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

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