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Tamara Harvey said whilst theatre bosses may be committed to paying men and women the same - there is still an imbalance if there are fewer female roles.

The disproportionate representation of William Shakespeare has propagated white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives in theatre, according to a taxpayer-funded study.

Shoreham By Sea Independent business have pulled together with gestures of solidarity & support of the world premier of Galatea.

Ground-breaking LGBTQIA+ storytelling using theatre, opera and music is one of the themes at this year’s Brighton Festival.

Brighton Festival will launch this weekend for three weeks of theatre, comedy, art, music and much more.

The world premiere of Emma Frankland’s Galatea will be one of the Brighton Festival highlights this year, from May 5-21.

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it

Brighton Festival promises a host of entertainment for the entire family with a focus on community.

Around three years into his career as a dramatist, Shakespeare’s blank verse—his unrhymed iambic pentameter—came under attack. We might wonder whether the passage from "Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit" was right?

The women who made Shakespeare. This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. Juliet. Queen Titania. Ophelia. Lady Macbeth. There isn’t a single female character in Shakespeare’s canon that was written to be performed by a woman. Yet women were there from the outset – funding, building and running the theatres. Beginning with a reading from Richar...