| Description | Series of articles about theatre, topics include; John Tusa to lead a Conservative task force into the arts, evaluations of the Barbican Centre on its 25th anniversary, the appointment of Deborah Warner as associate director and Graham Sheffield as artistic director of the Barbican Centre, Tom Stoppard at seventy, an interview with Steven Berkoff, too few new plays, a strategy to deal with the threat of terrorist attack on West End theatres, six great Hamlets, "Departing" a new play by Vaclav Havel, resignations from literary agency PFD, how to address lack of diversity in the arts, how theatre reflects the state of the nation, interviews with Harold Pinter, Polly Stenham, Simon Callow on the need to renovate West End theatre buildings, the sale of his archive to the British Library by Harold Pinter, increased visitor numbers to the RSC Stratford, Liverpool as European Capital of Culture 2008. |