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Pride review – solidarity between gay activists and miners in a magnificent musical

by The Guardian | Jun 25, 2026 | Culture, Film, LGBTQ+ rights, Matthew Warchus, Musicals, National Theatre, Politics, Politics past, Stage, The Guardian, The miners' strike 1984-85, Theatre | 0 |

Dorfman theatre, LondonThe director and writer of the hit 2014 film deliver a stage celebration of togetherness in the face of adversityA group of 1980s LGBTQ+ activists begin fundraising for a south Wales pit village in the...

‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife

by The Guardian | Jun 20, 2026 | Culture, Film, Killing Eve, National Theatre, Sandra Oh, Stage, Television & radio, The Guardian, Theatre | 0 |

It took a long time for the actor to find her groove – then the smash TV spy thriller changed everything. She talks about getting advice from A-listers, speaking her mind, and why she’s switching to theatreSandra Oh...

‘It’s a relief … I’m irrelevant!’: Rufus Norris on life after the National Theatre

by The Guardian | Jun 3, 2026 | Arthur Miller, Culture, Es Devlin, Europe, Javier De Frutos, National Theatre, Rufus Norris, Stage, The Guardian, Theatre, Turkey | 0 |

He stood down as boss of the NT – and threw himself into kayaking, writing and DIY. The veteran director talks about his new start aged 60, mourning his mother – and directing Death of a Salesman in TurkishThere were...

‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard

by The Guardian | Sep 27, 2025 | Books, Classics, Culture, Leeds, National Theatre, Poetry, Stage, The Guardian, Theatre, Tony Harrison, UK news, Yorkshire | 0 |

Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatistFrom TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, numerous poets have written a...

Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

by The Guardian | Sep 28, 2023 | Alan Ayckbourn, Culture, Film, Harry Potter, Laurence Olivier, Michael Gambon, National Theatre, Stage, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, Theatre, UK news | 0 |

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has diedSir Michael Gambon, whose extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National...

‘Our identity is being stolen’: survivors plead for halt to dramas about Grenfell

by The Guardian | Apr 16, 2023 | BBC, Culture, Grenfell Tower fire, Media, National Theatre, Stage, Television, The Guardian, UK news | 0 |

Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productionsThe BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile productions about the Grenfell Tower fire...

Helen McCrory swore friends to secrecy about cancer diagnosis

by The Guardian | Apr 17, 2021 | Culture, Harry Potter, Helen McCrory, National Theatre, Peaky Blinders, Television, The Guardian, UK news | 0 |

Actor did not want her professional or charitable work overshadowed by illness in final weeks, says friendHelen McCrory, the Peaky Blinders actor who died from cancer on Friday, “swore friends to secrecy” as she...