In 2014, Imelda Staunton raised the roof at Chichester when she played the manically determined Mama Rose in Jonathan Kent's revival of the 1959 musical. So you'd think most theatres would be wary of mounting another production of this touchstone…
The future of theatre in some of the UK's biggest cities remains under threat, regional artistic directors have warned, amid funding cuts and an ongoing search for sustainable business models. A year on from the collapse of Liverpool Everyman's…
The current problems of regional theatre are, sadly, well described in your article (Cities' theatre chiefs say cuts and ailing repertory system put future at risk, 2 December). However, the situation is even worse when set in historical context. I…
Almost 800 libraries have closed since the Conservative government implemented austerity in 2010, new figures reveal. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's (Cipfa) annual survey of the UK's libraries, excluding Northern…
The BBC's Andrew Neil has issued a challenge to Boris Johnson to take part in a sit-down interview with him before next week's general election. Mr Johnson is the only leader of a main party not to have faced a half hour, prime-time BBC One…
