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The Stage 100 2024

The Stage 100 2024

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Who has topped The Stage 100 2024? Last year, former culture secretary Nadine Dorries nabbed the spot, and before that, the list includes Ian McKellen, Vicky Featherstone and Sonia Friedman. But who got the top spot in 2024?

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Lyn Gardner
by Lyn Gardner

The National Theatre’s cut to its school touring scheme is damaging to theatre – and children

The National Theatre’s 100% cut to its live touring to primary schools is a huge own goal at a time when the industry needs to show the government the key role it has to play in supporting the arts in education
David Benedict
by David Benedict

Call me Scrooge, but this over-told tale is so rarely done well

Year after year of stale stagings of Dickens’ Christmas classic highlight the difficulty of instilling dramatic tension into a story that we all know so well

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by Alistair Smith

If the National Theatre can’t afford primary schools tours, who can?

Alistair Smith discusses the National Theatre’s cut to its primary schools touring programme and where the responsibility lies going forward
Which stereotypes about theatre folk are true?

Which stereotypes about theatre folk are true?

The Green Room
Welcome to our weekly discussion forum for key issues facing those working in theatre and the performing arts. This week, we ask our panellists which stereotypes about their jobs are true?
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Brian Cox
“I’m not a big fan of directors. A lot of them irritate the fuck out of me”

Brian Cox

Actor
Straight after playing a US president on Broadway, Brian Cox is directing Sinners at west London’s Playground Theatre. The acclaimed actor talks about his love of Shakespeare, garnering a new generation of fans with hit TV drama Succession and why he finds conceptual directors so irritating
Lynette Linton
“This is what I always wanted, it’s all I have ever wanted”

Lynette Linton

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Michelle Terry
“This job has taught me that democracy is really hard”

Michelle Terry

Shakespeare's Globe
Eleanor Lloyd
“When it’s not going well, you have to know why you chose the show”

Eleanor Lloyd

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Michael Harrison
“It’s a big job. I don’t have any hobbies. Producing is all I do”

Michael Harrison

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Robert Icke

Director

Emma Rice

Director

Antonio Pappano

Conductor and music director

Francesca Moody

Producer

Matthew Bourne

Choreographer

Johnny Flynn

Actor

Elizabeth McGovern

Actor

Sutton Foster

Performer

Carrie Hope Fletcher

Actor

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Adam Cooper

Dancer
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‘We want to make a Mischief movie next, that’s the dream’

‘We want to make a Mischief movie next, that’s the dream’

by Tim Bano
From pub theatre to a global franchise, Mischief Theatre has perfected the art of making things go wrong in the right way. With shows in the West End, on tour and Off-Broadway, and a TV show set to air, founders Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields tell Tim Bano how it all came together
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The Stage 100 2024

The Stage 100 2024

by The Stage
Who has topped The Stage 100 2024? Last year, former culture secretary Nadine Dorries nabbed the spot, and before that, the list includes Ian McKellen, Vicky Featherstone and Sonia Friedman. But who got the top spot in 2024?
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Interviews with established and emerging theatremakers working on stage and behind the scenes in UK theatre and beyond.
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