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Kate Maltby

Kate Maltby

The Guardian

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Let Britain’s magical, mythical creatures inspire a patriotism untainted by politics

Let Britain’s magical, mythical creatures inspire a patriotism untainted by politics
30.03.2025 6

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!

Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!
23.03.2025 9

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Mind your manners, diners, restaurants are turning the tables on grumpy reviewers

Mind your manners, diners, restaurants are turning the tables on grumpy reviewers
16.03.2025 40

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Trigger warnings may be doing more harm than good. Witness ‘the abortion play’

15.02.2025 10

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

01.02.2025 8

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

In 1986, Sigourney Weaver completed her second Alien movie and returned to New York’s off-Broadway scene to prove she could do Shakespeare. For...

29.12.2024 20

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories

This Christmas, find some pity for Lynda Snell MBE. Fans of the BBC radio soap The Archers know Lynda as the stalwart organiser of every Christmas...

22.12.2024 20

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Chris Riddell on Labour’s Lawmaker Express. It is not for turning – cartoon

30.11.2024 5

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Wicked would be fun and forgettable but for the alt-right waging dark arts against it

The “war on woke” has a new target and her name is the Wicked Witch of the West. If you’re a fan of the musical Wicked, you’ll also know her as...

30.11.2024 6

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer clinging to growth while the stuff of nightmares gather round – cartoon

23.11.2024 6

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants

Thomas Cromwell is back, and this time he’s a romantic. In Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light , the latest BBC TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s...

23.11.2024 6

The Guardian

Kate Maltby

Artistic freedom in our theatres is being lost to fear and self-censorship

Last month, Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre cancelled its production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Previews had already begun; the press...

12.10.2024 10

The Guardian

Kate Maltby