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The Latest Breaking News from the National Theatre

Young Vic theatre announces Nadia Fall as new artistic director

Fall, who currently runs Theatre Royal Stratford East, will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah in January

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards: Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker among nominees

Annual British theatre awards will take place in April

The Independent UK

Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End

Trio of plays by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter

The Guardian - UK

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London Tide's Bella Maclean on making her National debut, Sex Education and starring in Jilly Cooper's Rivals

The actor on how her family has inspired her ‘feisty and zesty’ character in this stage adaptation of Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend

Evening Standard

National Theatre invites NHS health workers to see Nye Bevan play for free

Hundreds of NHS workers can watch the play honouring the start of the health service

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger Wins Big At London's Olivier Awards

London's Olivier Awards celebrate 'Sunset Boulevard' revival's success with 7 wins, highlighting top talent in theater and concerns over industry challenges.

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Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan is a call to arms at the NHS’s moment of maximum peril

The Welsh actor’s performance at the National Theatre is timely. Let’s just hope it’s not too late to save the patient, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards 2024: nominations in full including nods for Nicole Scherzinger and Sarah Jessica Parker

The National Theatre’s stellar year is recognised with 15 nominations

Evening Standard

Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleagues

The Guardian - UK

‘I could have written three plays about her’: Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage

The coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows

The Guardian - UK

Creative industries get budget boost including £26m for National Theatre

Chancellor also announces tax relief measures to encourage film-makers to shoot more movies in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

A stage in life: Why apprenticeships are so vital in the creative sector

More than nine out of ten entry-level apprentices who completed their training with the National Theatre have gone into paid professional work in the same area they were trained in

The Guardian - UK

Big Boys star Dylan Llewellyn: ‘I’d quite like to play a right horrible git’

Can the Big Boys star really be as nice as the gentle teen he plays? As the hit comedy wraps up its second season, he reflects on dyslexia, finding acting by accident – and how Derry Girls saved him

The Guardian - UK

Hessian hyena and a pack of playful concepts reveal bright future for stage design

The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers’ royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gambon remembered by David Hare

The playwright recalls his collaborations with the charismatic actor whose mix of mischief and vulnerability endeared him to everyone from Arthur Miller to Bill Nighy

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The Guardian - UK

A truly national theatre must get out of London more

Letters: The National Theatre’s new artistic director must ensure that it engages with the regions, writes Ian Wood

The Guardian - UK

Indhu Rubasingham’s National Theatre in-tray: lure megastars, deal with crises and define an era

The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity

Evening Standard

OPINION - Indhu Rubasingham: why she's the perfect choice for head of the National Theatre

The outgoing director of the Kiln inherits a strong artistic legacy but the finances are a lot less fun

The Guardian - UK

Michael Blakemore obituary

Acclaimed theatre director admired for his productions of Kiss Me Kate and Copenhagen

The Guardian - UK

Strapped, stressed, axed: is it curtains for theatre’s artistic directors?

Indhu Rubasingham has been named as the National’s new head. But elsewhere, theatres are ditching this once coveted role altogether. Can a theatre really manage without one?

The Guardian - UK

Gift memberships: the best UK gallery, museum, cinema and theatre deals this Christmas

Giving subscriptions as a present helps the culture sector plug its finances and saves money too

The Guardian - UK

‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks

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