853 stories by "Matt Trueman"
In the wake of a concert bombing, the Royal Exchange Theater in Manchester added "Our Town" to its fall schedule.
Ian Holm used to call stage fright "the actors' industrial illness". For better or worse, it comes with the job. Nonetheless, we
The London-based brothers set out to establish careers in music, but theatre turned out to be their true calling " and West
To create The Tin Drum, the theatre company spent two weeks tucked away in a cluttered rural retreat where they eat, run and rehearse together " just don't call it a commune, says artistic d…
RSC's founder defends the company's right to be subsidised, saying 'controversy is the lifeblood of the arts'Director Peter Hall has dismissed complaints about the RSC's revival of Marat/Sad…
HiddleHamlet is at hand. Come September, Hollywood's very own Tom Hiddleston will take on the Dane as directed by Kenneth Branagh in
Edward Fox steps in to play opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play after Robert Hardy stands down due to injuryBafta-winning actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of The Audience at the Gi…
The fringe is a festival of discovery. It always has been. From Tom Stoppard to Breach Theatre, from Beyond the Fringe to
R&B singer-songwriter plans stage version of successful 'hip-hopera' about one-night stand gone surreally awryDefecating midgets are hardly a Broadway staple, but R&B star R Kelly ha…
As he directs Sienna Miller and Jack O'Connell in a sizzling Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Australian discusses waging war on the old guard, his obsession with desire and why he's inspired by t…
Have we pulled the ladder up on new writing? After the golden age, the drought. Or so says the president of the
As Committee, the verbatim musical about the demise of Kids Company, opens at London's Donmar Warehouse, its composer tells Matt Trueman about
Ahead of her new show, director Zoe Lafferty tells Matt Trueman how working with the 'Che Guevara' of theatre transformed her from
Bertie Carvel has humanised troubled characters from criminals and adulterers to politicians and child-hating headteachers. As he prepares to star in Ink
In New York, musicals were the talk of this year's Tonys. Even if there was no stand-out best new musical nominee "
Phyllida Lloyd's production, which places Shakespeare's tragedy in a prison, to open Brit-heavy season at St Ann's WarehouseThe Donmar Warehouse's all-female Julius Caesar will get a New Yor…
'Inhumane' proportions, nightmarish sightlines, minuscule playing space … Top theatre figures discuss the perils " and joys " of the Swan, Lyttelton, Wanamaker Playhouse and Royal Exchange…
Daniel Craig stands up to Michael Gambon: a tough, tousled young man in a white T-shirt. His face isn't the same one
Boozy function rooms were once theatre's radical heart. Rising costs and the changing face of the fringe threatened all that " but pubs around Britain are pulling in audiences with their spi…
As Tony Kushner's masterwork reopens at the National Theater, creators of the first British production recall the intensity of working in a small space.
It's been ages since I wrote a real stinker: an all-out, one-star assault. When I was younger " still indignant, still stupid
Back in January, I wrote a love letter to the Barbican's doors and the swish that seals the space shut. Turns out
George Brant's electric monologue Grounded was one of the first plays to explore a new form of war. The playwright, actor Lucy Ellinson and director Christopher Haydon recall creating a frin…
I have of late " but wherefore I know not " lost all my critical faculties. Well, not all of them. It's
After famously revealing that he saw his father's ghost when playing Hamlet at London's National Theatre in 1989, Day-Lewis has now denied the claimsDaniel Day-Lewis has put paid to one of t…
