Succession’s J Smith-Cameron to star opposite Mark Rylance in Juno and the Paycock
Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic
December 2023
Paws for applause: Paddington set to star in stage musical
After two hit movies, the children’s books hero will lead a new theatre production from the company behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
October 2023
After 60 years, when will the biggest job in UK theatre go to a woman? Why not now?
Arifa Akbar
Only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that, says the Guardian’s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar
July 2021
Reopening culture
Anna X review – sound and vision steal the show in ‘fake heiress’ tale
Emma Corrin and and Nabhaan Rizwan give excellent performances in Joseph Charlton’s two-hander which has a fizzing hi-tech design
May 2021
Walden review – Gemma Arterton’s sister act reaches for the stars
Reopening culture
Gemma Arterton play resumes in West End after Covid-related cancellation
April 2021
Lockdown culture
‘I wanted to capture the joy’: J’Ouvert writer Yasmin Joseph on bringing Europe’s biggest carnival to the stage
Joseph’s soca-saturated play about three young women losing themselves to the best and worst at Notting Hill carnival parades into the West End and on to our screens
March 2021
Rafe Spall to star in West End premiere of To Kill a Mockingbird
Sonia Friedman unveils season of West End plays for 'bold new world'
October 2020
Culture in peril
Sonia Friedman: I've closed 18 shows and paused 10. Here's my cure for theatre
Culture in peril
Richard Armitage: 'Theatre is hanging on by a thread'
June 2020
Leopoldstadt in limbo: the crew of a West End hit on life after Covid-19
Locking down Leopoldstadt: what happened when the West End closed overnight
May 2020
British theatre 'on brink of total collapse', says top producer
Sonia Friedman calls for rescue package to save more than 1,000 theatres from permanent closure
February 2018
Regional UK theatres need more public funds, says leading director
Exclusive: Sir Richard Eyre says cuts make it harder to take artistic risks with new talent
March 2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child breaks Olivier nominations record
Show’s 11 nominations including best actor are most for a new play, while Groundhog Day dominates musical categories
January 2017
Harry Potter plays fly Sonia Friedman to top of Stage 100 power list
Friedman, also behind Dreamgirls, Funny Girl and Nice Fish, is only the second woman to top industry newspaper’s annual league table
