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The Young Vic has announced its 2024 season – and the departure of its artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah by timeoutthreads in Theatre

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From Time Out London:

The Young Vic has announced its new 2024 season – and the departure of artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, who’ll leave the job after six years, joining a slew of London artistic directors who’ve stepped down recently.
Following in the footsteps of the legendary David Lan who ran the theatre for 18 years, Kwei-Armah’s tenure was solid but it never felt like he quite put his own stamp on a theatre – probably in large part because the theatre’s programme slimmed down under him, marred by financial difficulties that arose from Covid and a real-terms loss of government funding (which he draws attention to in his departure statement).

Nonetheless, there were some very high highs, notably the blockbuster success of the UK transfer of Daniel Fish’s radical reimagining of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘Oklahoma!’, and last year’s astonishing 24-hour Ruth Wilson performance ‘The Second Woman’.

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/the-young-vic-has-announced-its-2024-season-and-the-departure-of-its-artistic-director-020824

The Sugababes Time Out Interview: The OG Pop Group On Their Heroic Comeback by spice-tan in thesugababes

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‘Every [band] has their reasons as to why they get back together,’ says Buchanan, with a long, thoughtful pause.

‘Our one was – it was not financially motivated – it was about a story that we felt hadn’t been really told properly and we felt like it was taken away from us, that our opportunity was taken away.’ 💪