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Understudies are the undervalued key to change in the theatre industry - let’s make it happen

Covid chaos has had a huge effect on theatre shows and understudies have held them together - it’s time to do more than applaud

Evening Standard

Okinawan music and dance, old and new, on stage in Tokyo

A festival of Okinawan performing arts was recently held at the National Theatre in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese sovereignty.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Dennis Waterman obituary

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: Middle; Prima Facie; Much Ado About Nothing

A couple struggle to connect – or touch – in David Eldridge’s latest; Jodie Comer owns the courtroom; and Lucy Bailey directs a sparkling new Much Ado

The Guardian - UK

Playwright David Eldridge: ‘What’s important to me is to move people’

The dramatist and West Ham fan on exploring what it means to be a couple in his trilogy of plays and how King Lear blew his mind

The Guardian - UK

Camilla makes debut in new royal role that caused tense row with Meghan Markle

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, visited the National Theatre today for the first time in taking over as patron from Meghan Markle, who was stripped of the position when she left the Royal Family

Daily Mirror

The Corn Is Green review – an inspirational heart-warmer in praise of good education

Emlyn Williams’ 1938 play is a kind of Billy Elliot of the Valleys: the old-fashioned but hugely entertaining and affecting story of a Welsh miner’s son who escapes his class-bound home town with the help of a bold schoolteacher

The Guardian - UK

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Will this brute of a building herald a new assault on London’s skyline?

Developers swoop on areas like the south bank. The onus is on planning officers to reject ugly schemes

The Guardian - UK

The Odyssey to go on epic journey around the UK with National Theatre initiative

The play will be performed around the UK before returning to the National Theatre for a final blow-out show

Evening Standard

National Theatre to stage The Odyssey in ‘epic’ retelling around England

Parts to be staged in Stoke, Doncaster, Trowbridge and Sunderland using local writers and amateur casts before finale in London

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2022: the full list of winners

Find out who won what at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony where Cabaret was toasted and Life of Pi proved a roaring success

The Guardian - UK

Cabaret wins seven awards as Oliviers return to Royal Albert Hall

Awards for Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley among musical’s wins, with Life of Pi also recognised in several categories

The Guardian - UK

The Olivier Awards nominees, performances and air time

Anything Goes and Life of Pi are among this years performances

Liverpool Echo

How Meghan Markle's ties to UK have been cut- and the one cause she's still linked to

It has been announced that Meghan Markle is relinquishing her role of patron of UK-based animal charity Mayhew - and it's one of just several ties she still had to Britain that have now been severed

Daily Mirror

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Spring tickets 2022: The best plays and exhibitions to see this season

Get out there (but avoid the snow)

The Guardian - UK

Hattie Ladbury obituary

Other lives: Versatile actor who was met with ecstatic reviews for her performance in Nine Night at the National Theatre

Daily Mirror

Kelvin Fletcher ‘in disbelief’ after finding out wife Liz is expecting twin boys

Kelvin Fletcher and wife Liz are already parents to daughter Marnie, aged five, and son Milo, three, announced the news they were expecting twins back in January

Wales Online

ITV's Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway: Anna Maxwell Martin's marriage to famous director and being bullied in the industry

The actress has shot to fame with her roles in Line of Duty, Motherland and Poppy Shakespeare

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Wales Online

Queen hands Meghan’s National Theatre patronage to Camilla

The Queen has been associated with the National Theatre since its earliest days at the Old Vic in the 1960s

Daily Record

Camilla was 'very upset' when new royal job caused friction with Meghan Markle

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has been named as the new patron of the National Theatre - a role which was previously held by Meghan Markle and which has brought tension to the pair in the past.

Daily Mirror

Camilla left 'very upset' after new royal role caused tension with Meghan Markle

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has been named as the new patron of the National Theatre - a role previously held by Meghan Markle. And it seems the royal role had twice caused tension between the two women

Daily Mirror

Duchess of Cornwall replaces Meghan Markle as royal patron of National Theatre

The National Theatre said it was delighted Camilla, a long-standing supporter for the arts, had been given the role, describing her as a devoted fan of theatre and champion of literature and drama

The Independent UK

Queen hands Meghan Markle’s National Theatre patronage to Camilla

Prince Harry previously said he felt ‘hurt’ at the Queen’s decision to strip him and Meghan of their royal patronages

Evening Standard

Cancelled: National Theatre’s Wuthering Heights, Secret Cinema and Joe Lycett hit by Storm Eunice

Theatre workers union Bectu called for film and TV productions to ensure the safety of their staff

The Guardian - UK

‘My nails are longer than my future’: Our Generation, the 254-scene play about teens, cuts and Covid

Sieges, riots, serial killings, sex work … Alecky Blythe has put them all on stage. She reveals all about her latest project – an epic look at the comic ups and touching downs of teenagers across Britain today

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