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London’s Bridge Theatre has announced a new staging of Into the Woods, marking the musical’s first outing in London for almost a decade

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

The broadcaster and president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain has called on artists to reject proposed changes to copyright law that would allow artificial intelligence companies to train easily on writers' work

Government’s proposals could make it easier to train artificial intelligence models using artists’ works

Kathleen Marshall will revive Top Hat in Chichester Festival Theatre’s new season, which also includes Giles Terera as Hamlet and Natalie Dormer as Anna Karenina

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President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman and replaced the Kennedy Center’s president Deborah Rutter with Trump ally Richard Grenell.

Following Creative Scotland’s pledge to double arts funding, the Labour government needs to catch up if it wants to retain its reputation as champion of the arts

Our ​theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK,​ from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working post-pandemic i...

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What makes Radio 3 drama special – and different from Radio 4 – are three things: length, breadth and sound, says audio drama specialist Andrea Smith

Marlowe’s history play returns!

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Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.

A group of more than 300 homeless migrants occupying La Gaîté Lyrique theatre in Paris are demanding housing in empty buildings as the theatre’s management warns that sanitary conditions inside the...

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The award-nominated production heads indoors

English-American actor John Douglas Thompson is travelling to Scotland for the first time to perform in The Merchant of Venice at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. He tells Fergus Morgan about how being stood...

The Labour government will be missing a trick if they do not understand that the arts are ready and willing to make themselves useful and simultaneously bring joy and a return on investment, says Lyn…

Renowned drama school says ‘unprecedented funding challenges’ make degrees unviable from September 2025

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Outgoing National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris has called on the government to make oracy the fourth ’r’ of education alongside reading, writing and maths