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A collaboration between Polyglot Theatre and the UK’s Oily Cart puts an inclusive, child-led approach at its heart.
Theatre was one of the worst-hit industries during the height of the pandemic, but the need to adapt may have set an exciting groundwork for the future.
Theatre companies who experimented with outside performances during the pandemic should not abandon them.
How 19th-century audiences could experience the sound of live theatre in their living rooms.
The government has announced a ‘rescue package’ for the arts sector. But it must make sure that the funds are allocated fairly.
The theatre industry is facing an existential crisis and government action is urgently needed to ensure its survival.
The performing arts sector will need to change after the pandemic. This new venture is a glimpse of how it might look.
Will a coronavirus lockdown prompt a permanent change in the way we experience live performance?
Miler halted the terms ‘Renaissance Man’ and ‘polymath’ but was one of the most wide-ranging intellects of his era.
Moving on from tiered seats and post-war black box stages, the design of theatres are changing again in response to new societal concerns.
All of Shakespeare’s major male roles were written for Richard Burbage who died in the 1619s.
Joe Orton’s final play, a savage parody of social attitudes to sexual coercion, could have been written for the #MeToo generation.
The multi-award winning musical is as relevant to audiences in the UK as in the US.
Brilliant performances from the two central characters are undermined by a confused production.
R.C. Sherriff’s classic play focused on the officer class, but the recent film adaptation has given working-class soldiers a voice.
Popcorn packets and phone use in the theatre can be very distracting, but it’s nothing compared to what performers had to put up with in the past.
The award-winning US musical made headlines when a cast member delivered a political message to the US vice-president from the stage.
A playwright whose work detailed Mugabe’s decline into despotism recalls his brushes with Zimbabwe’s former leader and his wife.
Is there something in the way theatre is organised that makes abuse of power so depressingly commonplace?
Top contributors
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Deputy Head Arts and Media, University of Central Lancashire
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting and Media Production, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Screen Media, King's College London
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Professor in English Literature, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Nottingham
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Reader in Victorian Studies, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Principal Lecturer in Drama, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Renaissance Literature, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor in Postwar and Contemporary Literature, University of Leicester
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Lead Academic Tutor, Theatre Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, Anglia Ruskin University
