24 stories by "Megan Vaughan"
So, Matt Trueman is worried about the decline of theatre blogs. Fair enough I suppose; we all worry about something. In my
After giving Macbeth a Stalinist treatment and transporting the Merchant of Venice to Vegas, Rupert Goold's Richard III is a more timeless
It would be inappropriate to describe Hollywood all-rounder Jesse Eisenberg simply as an actor-turned-playwright. Alongside his critically and commercially successful acting career,
With his company in residence at Trafalgar Studios, Jamie Lloyd has been enticing young audiences to his shows with a successful formula:
When both the AQA and OCR exam boards recently announced that pupils studying drama GCSE would no longer be required to attend
When its first run went on sale in summer last year, Funny Girl tickets were gone in less than 12 hours, becoming
Harold Pinter had already been credited with changing the face of British theatre before The Caretaker appeared in 1960, but it was
After last year's sell-out production of Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel, the troubled ENO joins forces once again with
I have a note on my phone which lists all my favourite shows since January. I do this every year, mainly because
When People, Places and Things opened in the Dorfman at the National Theatre last year, critics immediately credited the show's star, Denise
Last seen in The Winter's Tale/Harlequinade double bill, Kenneth Branagh returns to the stage for what is surely the lightest offering in
When Time Out tweeted its review of the Almeida's Uncle Vanya a couple of weeks ago, the five stars it gave the
Have you heard of the Baader-Meinhof effect? No, not the group of leftwing German militants founded in the 1970s by Andrea Baader
Earlier, The Stage published an opinion piece by George Osborne, in which he presented a very particular vision of the current UK
2016 begins, in my utopian vision, with the Live Art Aid Christmas single, masterminded by Richard DeDomenici with Home Live Art. The
You're probably too busy making elf costumes and drinking turbo snowballs* to read about arts outreach right now, so I'll get straight
The clocks have gone back, the weather is shitty, beer gardens are once again just smoking enclosures for the brave. Halloween is
In a nod to Mark Storer's new promenade installation piece about erectile dysfunction, The Barometer of My Heart, I was going to
It's 3am on August 2 and I'm in an Uber on London's North Circular, heading towards the Olympic Park. Dude behind the
Hello? Hello…? Can you hear me? Is this thing on? So, The Stage is behind a paywall now. Sorry, "metered access". How
I'm only on month two with this column but fuck it, I give up. Edinburgh is like a seething black hole, hoovering
Hello. So I have a column now. It's going to be monthly, and it's going to be about experimental performance, live art
I want to take Mark Shenton out for a pint. Not like that, don't be silly. I just want to cheer him
I don't normally give a shit about headline-making theatre. I'm too wilfully contrary for all that celebrity casting, Jamie Lloyd, Donmar Warehouse, returns-queue-only stuff. But the Young V…
