Nicholas Hytner

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  National Theatre stages surprise phone hacking play, Great Britain

  25 Jun 2014:

  Curtain lifts on play delayed for News of the World trial verdicts, with Billie Piper as tabloid editor (not based on Rebekah Brooks)

• Miss Saigon: our old show is back – fresh and angry for the 21st century

  12 Jun 2014:

  Ray Shell, a member of the original Miss Saigon cast, admires the brutality, fragility and yearning of the London revival

• When theatrical regime change creates an in-house drama

  6 Jun 2014:

  Any incoming artistic director faces a challenge – especially when the outgoing director was as well respected as Sam Walters at Richmond's Orange Tree, writes Lyn Gardner

• Melvyn Bragg: 'I think Howard Stringer would be a cleansing sword for the BBC'

  11 May 2014: Maggie Brown: Broadcaster on his tip for chairman of the BBC Trust, the influence of Sky Arts – and why he has no intention of retiring

• Nicholas Hytner to direct adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van

  9 May 2014: History Boys duo to reunite on film inspired by homeless woman who parked her Dormobile outside Bennett's home

• British TV is learning to love the arts – but it can love them too much

  18 Apr 2014: Mark Lawson: TV's new passion for the arts should be good news for culture enthusiasts. But are critical voices being drowned out by applause?

• Chief executives: the power behind the theatrical throne

  31 Mar 2014:

  Lyn Gardner: Tessa Ross will join Rufus Norris in the top jobs at the National Theatre later this year. Is it time we placed as much importance on the chief executive's role as we do the artistic director's?

• Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Henry V?

  28 Mar 2014:

  Michael Billington's triumphant kings include Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh and Alan Howard. Which versions of the play have you enjoyed the most?

• BBC promises 'strongest commitment to the arts in a generation'

  25 Mar 2014: New season will see extra £3m spent on productions of Shakespeare and live broadcasts from Glyndebourne and Hay

• BBC boss taps Nicholas Hytner and Nicholas Serota for arts push

  25 Mar 2014: Tony Hall recruits National Theatre and Tate directors, and plans sequel to classic documentary series Civilisation. By John Plunkett

• New play by Tom Stoppard will open in National Theatre next year

  20 Mar 2014:

  One of 10 world premieres in the theatre's season, it will be the last that Hytner directs as artistic director

• Hytner to set up new theatre company when he leaves National Theatre

  9 Jan 2014: NT's hugely successful artistic director plans to continue working with long-time collaborator Nick Starr in commercial sector

• American Psycho; From Morning to Midnight; The Little Mermaid – review

  15 Dec 2013:

  Matt Smith brings a deadly vacancy to Easton Ellis's antihero in a musical with sharp instincts and a hollow heart, writes Susannah Clapp

• National directors past, present and future vie for Evening Standard award

  8 Nov 2013: Nicholas Hytner, Rufus Norris and Richard Eyre join Lyndsey Turner in hunt for best director as prize shortlist announced

• Does the National Theatre have a problem with women?

  7 Nov 2013:

  Sam Potter: If it's truly to be the UK's national theatre, the NT must get a lot better at commissioning and involving women writers

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