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BIZARRE: The stage - You Need To See This

Stephen Mangan blasts 'eye-wateringly expensive' West End theatre tickets: 'Playground for rich people'

The Green Wing star, 58, once berated an audience member for putting their feet on the stage

Evening Standard

Kristin Scott Thomas: male theatre critics don’t understand plays about women

The Oscar-nominated actor made the remarks while accepting the inaugural Leading Light Award at the Women’s Prize for Playwriting ceremony in London

Evening Standard

Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women

Actor’s comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts

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What on earth is happening with West End ticket prices?

Seeing a play in London can cost hundreds of pounds and prices are only going up. Vicky Jessop investigates why and whether there’s any way of attending the theatre without breaking the bank

Evening Standard

Coronation Street actress Lynne Verrall dies aged 76 after motor neurone disease battle

The actress who ‘embraced life to the full’ died in Paris earlier this month

Evening Standard

Rachel Zegler claims top prize at The Stage Debut Awards

The 24-year-old beat out seven other nominees for the award, including Evita co-star Diego Andres Rodriguez.

Evening Standard

Rachel Zegler leads nominations for The Stage Debut Awards

West Side Story star Zegler is playing Eva Peron in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Evita at the London Palladium.

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Shakespeare play has five-week run cancelled due to ‘Gaza and trans rights references’

A disagreement over the modern material is said to have led to the cancellation of the production

The Independent UK

West End theatre ticket costs soar with top-priced seats reaching £300

New research has discovered that London’s theatre ticket costs have increased by over 9 per cent since 2023

The Independent UK

Top-price West End theatre tickets rise by 9% in a year and reach £300

The Stage’s annual survey found that, for the first time, three plays in London – including Romeo and Juliet with Tom Holland – are charging more than £200 for their most expensive seat

The Guardian - UK

Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis picks up gong at The Stage Debut Awards 2023

The stage and TV star fought off competition from a shortlist that included Normal People star Paul Mescal and Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto.

The Independent UK

Anna Karenina review: ‘fluid and febrile’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic novel

This entertaining co-production of “Anna Karenina”, which transfers from Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre to Bristol Old Vic next month, “began as a dare”, said Fergus Morgan in The Stage. The British-Russian director Polina Kalinina was complaining to the Scottish writer Lesley Hart that Russian literary texts typically “suffered from staidness…

The Week

Operation Mincemeat review: ‘winning’ musical deserves to run and run

Based on a famously audacious wartime plot, “Operation Mincemeat” is “a brilliant spy thriller, a brilliant comedy, and a brilliant musical all rolled into one”, said Tim Bano in The Stage. This “exhilarating” production began life in 2019 at the tiny New Diorama Theatre in London, and has since enjoyed…

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