Opera House, BuxtonTwo doomed romances are at the heart of this effective show, which deftly weaves together Brittain's feminist memoir and Novello's sentimental songs There is opera by Bell…
Linbury Studio, LondonSimon Callow's artfully constructed one-man show is essentially a 100-minute lecture on Wagner " but it feels like anything butSimon Callow's one-man show about Wagner …
Our political class is still struggling to make sense of the EU referendum. But thankfully our playwrights are finding the wordsThe Brexit referendum asked voters to make a simple choic…
The threshold has fallen so low that performers who live every day with fear of failure are being booed by audiences for no good reasonIn the 1980s, I wrote an article in the Guardian that b…
Some dismiss artists as dreamers. But, as with Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet, they see what works in rehearsal and change what doesn't. Politicians take noteThank goodness, not for the first…
It's not surprising that Alan Bennett's The History Boys is Britain's most popular play. The unfairness within our education system enduresThere are obvious pitfalls in reading too much…
Linbury Studio, LondonSimon Callow's artfully constructed one-man show is essentially a 100-minute lecture on Wagner " but it feels like anything butSimon Callow's one-man show about Wagner …
Reluctance to enfranchise prisoners is a hangover from the age of John Locke " a view of rights that sees the vote as a privilegeIs the right to vote a fundamental human right? You could be …