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Olivier Awards: Roald Dahl's dark side and Benjamin Button win big

This year’s Olivier Awards, which recognize achievements in London theater, opera and dance, saw The Roald Dahl play “Giant” win three prizes including Best New Play. “Benjamin Button” also won three, as did a boisterous outdoor production of “Fiddler on the Roof” at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

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On its 200th anniversary, The Old Market Theatre is still innovating

From an 19th century market to a space hosting technologically complex and diverse arts programming, how The Old Market spent 200 years growing into Brighton's most exciting theatre.

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Sabrage brings a naughty night of cabaret to London's Lafayette

Taking its audience on an unhinged, champagne-fueled fever dream of circus, cabaret, and comedy, Sabrage is London's newest sexy night out.

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World Theatre Day: This all-female Ukrainian cast is keeping art alive

With most male actors at war, the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theatre in Ukraine has reinvented itself with female actors stepping into traditionally male roles, preserving culture while supporting the war effort.

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400 migrants evicted from Paris theatre after monthslong occupation

More than 400 migrants, many of them underage, had found shelter in La Gaîté Lyrique while waiting for permanent housing solutions.

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American playwright ak payne wins Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

American playwright ak payne has won this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an international prize that recognises women+ writing theatre in English.

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South African playwright Athol Fugard dies aged 92

The writer exposed the realities of apartheid in plays such as “The Blood Knot” and "’Master Harold’...and the Boys”, and refused to play for segregated audiences.

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Adrien Brody lands first Olivier nomination after Oscar win

'Fiddler on the Roof' emerges as the most-nominated production at the 2025 Olivier Awards, dominating in a year filled with star-studded performances.

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Finalists named for longest-running women+'s playwrighting prize

Nine finalists have been announced for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious English-language theatre prize for women and non-binary writers.

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'Stand up for culture!': French artists unite against budget cuts

Protests have spread across France after the government's forced budget announced severe cuts to the culture and arts sector.

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#metoothéâtre protestors demand change at the Comédie-Française

A hearing this month allowed one of France's most important theatre's to dismiss controversial actor Nâzim Boudjenah. But it's too little, too late for the movement against male violence in the arts.

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Director Jennifer Tang on Shakespeare, gender and theatre in 2025

Jennifer Tang's folio-feminising London production at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse proves that bathos conquers all, even if it's by accident. She talks to Euronews Culture about the play and her view on the survival of theatre.

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Watch: Just Stop Oil activists disrupt Sigourney Weaver West End show

The climate activists have targeted works of art, Stonehenge, Taylor Swift's jet and Charles Darwin's grave. Now, they're interrupting a Hollywood legend on stage, in order to raise the alarm about a "global shipwreck"...

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France announces measures to protect cabaret and the can-can

Famous through the Moulin Rouge, cabaret and the can-can will be given a cash injection due to new measures from France's culture ministry.

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The Stage Awards 2025 recognise the best of UK theatre

From two theatres sharing the Best Theatre Award to an actor with Motor Neurone Disease raising disability awareness through theatre, the Stage Awards recognised the best of the UK's theatre industry.

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Iconic Paris venue struggles as 350 young migrants sleep in hallways

While the City of Paris and the French government are at loggerheads over resolving the situation, many of the protesters say they are unaccompanied minors from sub-Saharan Africa.

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Tony Award-winning British actress Dame Joan Plowright dies aged 95

One of the UK’s most celebrated stage and screen stars, and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95.

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Actor Michael Sheen to fund new national theatre in Wales

Actor Michael Sheen is funding a new theatre company to replace the National Theatre Wales.

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How UK City of Culture will transform Bradford in 2025

As Bradford’s huge celebration of arts and community engagement begins, Euronews Culture talked to creative director Shanaz Gulzar about what it means for the city.

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Brian Friel's plays return to Irish roots in cross-border project

To mark the centenary of Brian Friel’s birth in 2029, a five-year project will bring his works to the communities, landscapes and even seasons that inspired them.