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Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres scared of them?

A new report suggests playwriting is in crisis after Covid, with producers retreating into safe old classics. Well, not from where I’m standing

The Guardian - UK

Heart & Hand in live fan media debate after Russell Martin's Rangers exchange

The Rangers podcaster has engaged in a live debate about fan media following on from Russell Martin's fiery press conference

The National (Scotland)

Ranked! The best 10 Canadian soccer players in Premier League history

Here are the Canadian soccer players who've lit up the league since 1992

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Kyoto: timely and enthralling play about first climate treaty reveals potent power of consensus

With California poised for more fires and a climate-change denying plutocrat back in the White House, the London opening of Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s play Kyoto – dramatising the intense negotiation of the world’s first climate change treaty – could hardly be more pertinent.

The Conversation

Emily Richard obituary

Actor who toured with the RSC, played Tess of the d’Urbervilles on radio and starred in Lorna Doone on television

The Guardian - UK

The New Real review – the spin doctors fight it out in David Edgar’s sweeping political satire

Two American strategists compete to influence an eastern European election in a nuanced new play that suffers from tackling too many subjects

The Guardian - UK

The New Real review – facts are an illusion in David Edgar’s post-truth political play

Two political strategists from the US and New Labour are recruited to help win a ruthless election in a former Russian colony

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Here in America review – Miller and Kazan test the bonds of friendship in McCarthy-era witch-hunt drama

Orange Tree theatre, LondonDavid Edgar’s play on the anti-communist Hollywood witch-hunts of the 1950s is clunky in its set-up, but offers a lively take on the personal politics of art and ideology

The Guardian - UK

David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

With two new plays opening this autumn, the veteran playwright talks about the risks of writing about real events and the threats to leftwing drama and politics

The Guardian - UK

Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

The Guardian - UK

Chris Parr obituary

Theatre director and TV producer who took every opportunity to champion new, challenging work

The Guardian - UK

‘A lot of time for him’ - David Edgar shares classy Sam Allardyce gesture at Newcastle United

Sam Allardyce was Mike Ashley's first managerial casualty as Newcastle United owner

Chronicle Live

Patti Love obituary

Actor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play

The Guardian - UK

'Priceless' Newcastle United dressing room reaction to 'strange' Joe Kinnear appointment revealed

Mike Ashley shocked Newcastle United supporters by appointing Joe Kinnear as manager in September 2009

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Forgotten Newcastle star believes Alan Shearer would have stopped 2009 relegation with more time

David Edgar believes Alan Shearer was capable of guiding Newcastle United to safety if he had been given more time in 2009.

Daily Mirror

Theatregoers love Adrian Edmondson in his role as Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol

The former Young One has lost little of his energy or his comedic skills as he proves a big hit in the festive production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Chronicle Live

'Eddie didn't like that' - Kieran Trippier once 'clashed' with Howe but he repaid Newcastle boss

Newcastle United defender Kieran Trippier looks set be involved when England face Iran in the Three Lions' World Cup opener and ChronicleLive has taken a look at his remarkable journey to Qatar

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‘Completely chancy’: the first BBC radio broadcast outside London, 100 years ago

Percy Edgar’s story ‘shows just how important local broadcasting was in the early years of the BBC’, says grandson David, a playwright

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‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

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