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<p>Grandage directed Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51 </p>

Director who brought us Nicole Kidman predicts West End resurgence

The Reader: Covid passports are a wise way of keeping us safe

West End theatres share £900,000 in funding to get Covid ready

Glastonbury receives £900,000 in arts funding

The National Football Museum and Bamburgh Castle are also recipients.

The arts will enjoy ‘golden period’ post-lockdown, says opera chief

Let them entertain us... creative industries will lead our recovery

Royal Ballet’s Kevin O’Hare: ‘We won’t shy away from diversity issues’

Report calls for opening up of theatres to next generation of artists

Cineworld reopens in time for Mortal Kombat and strikes Warner deal

By Jim Armitage

Les Miserables back in West End from May for socially distanced show

Khan: Sunak must prioritise shops, pubs, restaurants and theatres

NHS app ‘to display Covid status’ as ministers review vaccine passport

By Barney Davis

Help London back on its feet, PM: Fears city left ‘hollowed out’

By Joe Murphy Jonathan Prynn Nicholas Cecil

Super-fast Covid tests in bid to lift theatre curtains

By Nicholas Cecil Joe Murphy

West End will bounce back quicker than Broadway says Motown producer

PM: Lateral flow tests could be used to reopen nightclubs and theatres

By Daniel O'Mahony

Line Of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar says theatres are ‘fabric of our country’

By Lizzie Edmonds

Future Theatre Fund

The secrets behind London’s most beautiful theatres

While we’re all watching in the dark, we may not notice the intricate details of London’s beautiful theatre buildings

By Sophie Rainbow

BBC musicals fest to ‘bring joy’ to audiences locked out of theatres

Curtain comes down on West End as London hit with Tier 3 restrictions

By Sean Morrison

Tier 3 anger as theatres and galleries shut but saunas stay open

By Robert Dex Lizzie Edmonds

Why are theatres closed but sweaty saunas open?

By Nancy Durrant

Tier 3 will kill off our fragile recovery, business chiefs warn Boris

By Jonathan Prynn

Nine Lessons and Carols at Almeida theatre review: isolation stories

It’s hardly a feelgood Christmas show but that’s just what our theatres should be doing - diverse, challenging work amid the tinsel

The Reader: Let vaccinated fill our theatres and stadiums

Theatre returns to London with eager audiences back in their seats

Curtain up on London’s arts scene: theatre, concerts and exhibitions

By Robert Dex Lizzie Edmonds

RuPaul star ‘took a chance’ on West End debut

Will theatres reopen? Rules for the arts in tiers 1, 2 and 3 explained

By Lizzie Edmonds

Theatres are trapped in a painful game of ‘Jeopardy!’

At risk: theatres in places in the top tier will be forced to remain closed

By Nancy Durrant

Arts figures say tier restrictions will ‘shake already fragile sector’

By Lizzie Edmonds

Arts sector ‘facing its own form of long Covid’

Museums, galleries and theatres ‘need sustained support’ as reserves run out, warns the Art Fund

Not allowing theatres to open will be devastating

By Shappi Khorsandi

The Reader: Keep offices just as places for workers to meet

Royal Albert Hall ‘to go bust within months' without urgent funding

By Harriet Brewis

Theatres won't survive without a cash injection

The Reader: Don’t let new rules put lights out at West End theatres

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