113 stories by "Dalya Alberge"
New biography reveals US playwright's unflattering views of contemporaries, by drawing on unpublished workHis fellow playwrights are likened to "vampires" who leave "the stench smell of a ro…
Actress tries to bury claim that Shakespeare had to have been an aristocrat to write his plays It is a clash involving three of the titans of Shakespearean acting, in a theatrical year domi…
Rupert Goold, who directed the play Enron, says his new trailer can exploit the reach of social mediaOne of British theatre's foremost directors is pioneering the use of Facebook to reach ou…
Theatres Protection Fund to receive £125,000 from Andrew Lloyd Webber, with call for other successful writers and producers to give something backAndrew Lloyd Webber is calling on success…
Wilde's grave in Paris has been restored after decades of unusual lipstick tributes"A kiss may ruin a human life," Oscar Wilde once wrote. It can also ruin the stonework of a tomb, judging b…
Merlin Holland claims his grandfather 'never wrote a word' of play heralded by north London company as 'genuine' WildeThe grandson of Oscar Wilde is accusing an Olivier award-winning theatre…
Days after the death of the master songwriter, plans revealed for musical about Irish writerAs the rock world mourned lyricist Jerry Leiber last week, it fondly remembered classic hits such …
Work compiling the colourful playwright's complete works is due for publication this yearA mammoth publication of the complete works of Ben Jonson, the English dramatist regarded by many as …
Project in Scotland aims to help young people in former shipbuilding stronghold beset by 24% unemploymentComposer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's charitable foundation is to fund a new theatre for…
Composer and theatrical producer behind Cats and Evita to pay for 30 young actors, singer and dancers to studyIn an attempt to raise standards in West End musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber has p…
British Library will display unpublished letters, which show that the dramatist worked on his last play while nearing deathThe British Library has acquired four unpublished letters written b…
Play inspired by autobiography of man whose mother was Peter Sutcliffe's first known victimA playwright who owns the New End theatre in Hampstead, north London, is premiering a play in Leeds…
UK play's author will write screenplay but West End director and cast are dropped as Hollywood snaps up stage successEnron, the stage play that has enraptured the West End with its depiction…
