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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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

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 · Sep 18, 2023

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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 · Sep 17, 2023

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 · Sep 14, 2023

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 · Aug 13, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Jul 26, 2023

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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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2023

Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors review – a masterpiece of forensic fury

Piling up devastating detail, this play with a remarkable cast shockingly lays bare the abject failures behind this disaster

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 19, 2023

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

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

John Nettleton obituary

Actor who appeared as the cold, calculating cabinet secretary Sir Arnold Robinson in the TV satire Yes Minister

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2023

‘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

Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2023

Stephen Wood obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2023

‘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 · Jun 21, 2023

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 · Jun 21, 2023

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

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

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 · Jun 16, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2023

Rufus Norris has made the National Theatre more diverse – on both sides of the curtain

The director, who has announced he is stepping down, should be credited for opening up the organisation and steering it through the Covid crisis. Now, who’s next for the NT job?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2023

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels

Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2023

National Theatre: Runners and riders to replace Rufus Norris in top job

Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre leaves a gap at the top of British Theatre but there is no shortage of potential successors.

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre director: ‘The greatest privilege of my career’

British director joked that he wanted to be remembered as ‘someone whose dress sense got better as time went on’

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