Harriet Sherwood
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play
Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate → Read More
Anger as time runs out for government to ban conversion therapy in UK
Campaigners lament ‘total moral failing’ of successive prime ministers to act on promise to ban practices → Read More
London toy museum to return to 1870s home for one day only
Pollock’s Toy Museum to put on puppet theatre shows in Hoxton at Open House festival, as search for permanent home continues → Read More
V&A to look after ancient Yemen stones found in London shop
Museum agrees to care for stelae dating from second half of first millennium BC until it is safe to return them → Read More
Church of England votes to bring back ‘defrocking’ as punishment for clergy
Priests or deacons guilty of serious misconduct may be stripped of holy orders in measure abolished 20 years ago → Read More
Painting reattributed to Gainsborough after six decades labelled unknown
Experts delighted portrait refound but say this is ‘cautionary tale’, stressing importance of rigorous checks to avoid misattribution → Read More
Safeguarding in ‘crisis’ in Church of England, says archbishop of York
Stephen Cottrell tells General Synod ‘mistakes have been made’, while sacked safeguarding board member says ‘we did our job too well’ → Read More
‘Like a poll tax’: Church of England should stop charging couples for weddings, say vicars
Call for high fees to be scrapped as church marriages fall by half in England and Wales between 1999 and 2019 → Read More
Lord’s Prayer opening may be ‘problematic’, says archbishop
Archbishop of York tells General Synod that ‘Our Father’ has patriarchal connotations → Read More
David Adjaye steps back from Holocaust memorial after misconduct claims
Acclaimed architect, whose firm is designing London memorial, accused of sexual assault and harassment by three women → Read More
‘It can be chilling’: Julian Sands spoke of seeing human remains on climbs
Actor who died after going on solo hike said in last UK interview he had seen ‘spooky things’ on mountains → Read More
Religious leaders ‘out of step with flocks’ on assisted dying, says UK rabbi
Jonathan Romain, chair of Dignity in Dying, says assisted dying is ‘in line with religious ideals of compassion and care’ → Read More
Jacobean manor house in west London readies for public opening
Boston Manor House in Brentford, which dates back 400 years, has received a six-year restoration costing £6m → Read More
‘Horrible’ disparity emerging in cultural education in schools, says V&A head
Speaking at launch of UK’s ‘first museum created with and for young people’, Tristram Hunt said it could help fill gap → Read More
Camera brings ‘unprecedented clarity’ to restoration of historic artworks
Technology will allow conservators to use fluorescence to identify and remove ageing varnish with total accuracy → Read More
Prayerbook of priest who saved Charles II’s life on display in Staffordshire hall
Rare 1623 missal bears signature of Catholic priest John Huddleston, who hid king after final defeat by Cromwell’s forces → Read More
Britain’s ‘first professional Jewish panto’ to be staged in north London
Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig will open during Hanukah in December at culture centre JW3 → Read More
Windrush ‘pardner hand’ saving scheme celebrated at Bank of England Museum
When people came from the Caribbean last century and were turned away by banks, many relied on communal trust → Read More
Play about NHS creator Nye Bevan is among 12 new National Theatre plays
‘Epic and deeply personal’ Nye by Tim Price will star Michael Sheen and be directed by Rufus Norris → Read More
Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025
Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels → Read More