{"id":786424,"date":"2026-09-29T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786424\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:14:16","slug":"lisa-nandy-hits-back-at-critics-who-claim-she-doesnt-understand-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786424\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Nandy hits back at critics who claim she \u2018doesn&#8217;t understand theatre\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Official_portrait_of_Lisa_Nandy_MP.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Nandy, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. Photo: WikiCommons\" title=\"Lisa Nandy, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. Photo: WikiCommons\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Nandy, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. Photo: WikiCommons<\/p>\n<p>The culture secretary said the comments have \u201cdriven her up the wall\u201d and claimed her administration had given the arts the biggest boost of any single parliament in the history of UK democracy<\/p>\n<p>Read this article for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/registration?utm_source=Reggate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Join over 100,000 theatremakers who rely on The Stage for trusted news, reviews, and insight.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\ud83d\udd13 Sign in below or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/registration?utm_source=Reggate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create a free account <\/a>to read 5 free articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Nandy, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. Photo: WikiCommons The culture secretary said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}