Theatre

Exclusions from government funding pots exacerbating a challenging financial climate for creative institutions, which say talent pipeline for Labour’s priority sector at risk of being jeopardised

Alma mater of Daniel Day-Lewis, Patrick Stewart and Olivia Colman says ‘new approach’ will focus on ‘intensive postgraduate courses’

Forty-year-old ALRA shut just days after students had paid fees

Tributes paid to a performer of ‘steadfast dedication’ who pioneered a new style of opera production at Rice University

Legal bills for claim could reach £120,000, says theatre director

Roberta Mock explores a tradition of performance that still raises urgent political questions today

Digitisation opens up a world of possibility but it doesn’t compensate for the loss of physical interaction, says Mark Griffin

Pandemic forces institutions to respond to practical challenges but also to produce work that addresses crisis and helps forge new forms of art

Dread of ‘selling out’ and heroic figure of ‘struggling artist’ cause many creative arts graduates to persist with dead-end jobs rather than maximising their skills in alternative careers, says Martha Bloom

Robert Eaglestone praises a bold attempt to reveal how much of our moral thinking is still conducted in the shadow of the ancient Greeks

Matthew Reisz considers the tools we need to explore the wilder shores of performance art

Even in larger institutions with less disciplinary diversity, Dominic Johnson believes we must find ways to nurture the ‘resistant’ potential of art

Marketing concepts shed new light on ‘the first modern celebrity’ even if some threads are missed, says Liz Schafer

Students in different cities simultaneously performing version of play interact at six separate points via technology

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Roberta Mock on a form of performance in which a participant commits to a plan and sees it through, not knowing the outcome

The new chancellor of Leeds Trinity University talks about playing a student on Coronation Street, coping with grief and why regional accents are still frowned upon by directors of Shakespeare

Lab bench discoveries made during the 1800s were felt in the playhouse, says Matthew Broome

University of California, San Diego, rejects student-led petition to drop filmmaker from curriculum over sexual abuse allegations

The teaching of ethics in drama overlooks how theatre-makers should be treated, and how they should treat one another, while doing their jobs, says Daniel Foster 

UEA expert dismisses the idea that rehearsal-room romances can serve artistic ends

NTU pro v-c talks about finding out who you are at university, leading a stellar theatre company and why Nottingham should be European Capital of Culture

Peking University joins the top 20 of the Times Higher Education subject table for the first time

Peter J. Smith on a study of the interrelationship between visual culture and the theatre in 16th- and 17th-century England

The noted theatre director talks about dispelling drama school preconceptions, reducing tuition fees and negotiating with local gangs

Outgoing president says the arts are more important than ever in these troubled times

Big questions remain unanswered about an important female Modernist theatre-maker all but written out of history, says Liz Schafer

A theatre director who worked as an assistant to Bertolt Brecht before becoming professor of drama at Stanford University has died

Kate Riegle van West had to battle to bring her circus life and her academic life together

A trip to the theatre prompts Martin Hall to think afresh about the demonstrations gripping his country’s campuses

We talk civic engagement and the dream of all academic subjects incorporating the arts with St Andrews' new theatre chief

Thesis explores thumb-biting, ‘Spanish figs’ and other rude Elizabethan gestures

UCL event considers the responses of anthropologists and artists to the refugee crisis

The idea of barriers to work being benefits leaves Robert Eaglestone wondering if he missed the joke

Holger Syme’s three-week live-tweet reading brings scathing response from author Sir Brian Vickers

New network aims to help venues to play an even more effective role in the artistic life of their communities and regions

Why one academic takes her students to Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, to teach drama

We talk LGBT awareness, verbatim theatre and imaginary friends with the performer turned doctoral student

Ken Plummer on a lively and provocative run-through of 18 major works by the towering figure of musical theatre

The creative industries are a good career choice now, and higher education should respond, says Anne Carlisle

Students get a chance to develop a wide range of creative skills at the neighbouring world-famous arena

Proposals to measure teaching excellence present major challenges for universities educating students for the creative industries, says Nigel Carrington

Claims that magic shows are just trivial trickery understate their true significance, says scholar

University reaches out to its local community through dramatised performances in the city graveyard

We talk to the Liverpool Hope lecturer who featured in the finale of This Is England ’90

University lecturers can learn how to teach creativity by looking at innovative practice found in art colleges and music schools, claims education expert

The first act in an entertaining study of gifted stage performers is the most powerful, says Lisa Hopkins

Andrew Blake on a study of politics and the arts in the New Labour era

Peter Gwyn finds an attempt to put More’s writings into historical context less than clear

With the stage set for passionate religious argument, Helen Smith takes her seat

Hayley Jayne Bradley on how she has been depicted over the centuries

Christopher Innes applauds a memoir of tempestuous father-son relationships framed by elements of literature and performance

Gary Day reviews stories about the great playwright’s life - fact or fiction?