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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

It’s time for theatres to stop ghosting the playwrights they have commissioned

Dramatists are increasingly being strung along and ignored. We must act now to save the UK’s great playwriting culture

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

Play about NHS creator Nye Bevan is among 12 new National Theatre plays

‘Epic and deeply personal’ Nye by Tim Price will star Michael Sheen and be directed by Rufus Norris

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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

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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.

Evening Standard

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’

The Independent UK

National Theatre director Rufus Norris announces plan to step down as new season of shows is revealed

Rufus Norris describes time in charge as ‘the most challenging in our history’

Evening Standard

The Lehman Trilogy’s Michael Balogun on his extraordinary journey from prison to starring in the West End

Following an ‘epiphany’ while serving a prison sentence, Balogun decided to pursue a career in acting - and became a star. Now he is about to open in an acclaimed play in the West End

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK

Hex review – musical Sleeping Beauty casts a darkly dazzling spell

No theatrical effect is spared in this emotional show, which returns to Charles Perrault’s grisly and grief-ridden fairytale for inspiration

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Hex at the National Theatre review: this chaotic Sleeping Beauty spin off is cursed

This musical adaptation ends up being a sporadically charming but utterly confused mess

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‘We put Disney in the bin’: Victoria Hamilton-Barritt on being theatre’s top Christmas villain

She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt has bounced back as a tormented ogress in Hex

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Arts Council cuts will hobble regional touring, National Theatre director warns

Rufus Norris says DCMS levelling-up scheme will have exact opposite effect to that intended

The Guardian - UK

How do you make a lavish spectacle sustainable? Theatre’s radical green agenda

A meeting of minds at the National Theatre showed ways to stage drama along environmentally sound lines. But is everyone on board?

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre to stage The Crucible with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell

Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Camilla smashes plates at National Theatre as she gets involved with new play

Prince Charles would be best advised to lock up his finest china: the Duchess of Cornwall has just developed a taste for smashing plates.

Daily Mirror

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

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