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© Manuel Harlan The Old Vic has revealed a year's worth of live performances at its central London home, as well as some digital offerings to be presented later this summer. In a final live-streamed event as part of the Old Vic: In Camera series, Jeremy Herrin will direct Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, starring Daniel Mays and David Thewlis. A live 'studio' audience will be invited into the auditorium to watch the show, the first time that in-situ spectators have been welcomed into the space since the pandemic began. It runs from 7 to 10 July 2021. After this, the theatre will welcome bac...

© Left:Siobhan Doran, Centre: Philip Vile, right: Ellie Kurttz A further £400 million in grants and loans has been given to cultural venues and organisations across England. These funds are part of the Cultural Recovery Fund, set to help arts companies while the pandemic continues and restrictions remain in place to help prevent the spread of Covid. The Criterion Theatre, soon to be home to the freshly announced Amélie the Musical, is receiving £164,501, taking its total support from the Culture Recovery Fund to £493,504. Stephen Fry, chair of the Criterion Theatre Trust, said: "The Cri...

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Last modified on Thu 25 Feb 2021 09.57 EST As Christmas season dawned at the end of last year, two American critics had a crash course in that most British of theatre traditions, pantomime, dropping in remotely to eight shows for the New York Times. “I felt like an ethnographer studying a foreign culture’s strange ceremonies,” wrote one, while the other enjoyed the peppering of Covid-related jokes, including the insertion of “fiiiiiive toilet rolls” into The 12 Days of Christmas. The song featured in Oh Yes We Are!, Perth theatre’s four-scene mini-panto intended for small groups i...

Published: By Alex Moreland Advertisement “I don’t think I ever would have expected to jump straight into something of this magnitude,” says Omari Douglas. “I feel really lucky to have had this opportunity.” We’re discussing It’s A Sin – Russell T Davies’ new five-part drama for Channel 4, and Omari Douglas’ first television role. Douglas plays Roscoe Babatunde, described by Channel 4 as “a wild, brittle party boy, always on the run”; Roscoe is one of six friends in London, the series tracing their lives across a decade alongside the AIDS crisis. One thing tha...