35,882 stories from The Stage
A freelance actor and director has lost a Hugh Court challenge against the government's Universal Credit scheme, which she argued had left
Full of ruthless ambition, destructive entitlement and cynical political flip-flops, King John may be amongst Shakespeare's least-performed plays, but it certainly isn't
Before writing the screenplay for his landmark film " which carefully explored the complex identities of British Asians, frankly depicted an interracial
The producer behind the collapsed Shakespeare's Rose Theatre has cancelled its planned run of musical Matilda in Hong Kong. Lunchbox Theatrical Productions
Anansi the Spider is perhaps the most famous character in Afro-Caribbean folklore. He's loveable and wise, but he is also a mischief
Author Frank McCourt faced criticism about the accuracy of Angela's Ashes, even from his own family. He later redefined the work as
Gerald Barry's first opera premiered in 1990 with a libretto by Vincent Deane, though not much has been heard of it since.
Young people from across the country have threatened to boycott the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatre productions over its continued sponsorship deal with
Children's theatre company Tall Stories has submitted plans for a new facility in north London's Islington Central Library, which will include a
Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre is moving from private ownership to being operated by a registered charity, as the organisation seeks to secure
Kennedy Bloomer has been appointed the next artistic director of fringe venue the Hope Theatre in north London. Bloomer is currently head
Experimental art is usually synonymous with forbidding high seriousness. The outstanding exception to that is the consistently inventive yet audience-friendly theatre of
As the lights come up, a crate is lowered from above, like a shipment being unloaded in the Brooklyn docks. Beneath the
Richard Gadd's latest show Baby Reindeer won The Stage Edinburgh Award last month. Directed by Jon Brittain and produced by Francesca Moody,
With only 26% of new, main-stage productions in 2018 written by women, is the problem that many still consider women's plays 'personal'
"No way, this is a total bomb." "RIP to the dignity of real cats everywhere." Those two remarks could have been taken from the
The marriage of Yael Farber with Marina Carr should be a transcendent thing " and, mostly, it is. But, like the eponymous
Two Ladies opens with an arresting scene. The First Lady of the United States (Zrinka Cvitešić) is drenched in blood and being
Shakespeare's Rose Theatre is set to go into liquidation following "unsustainable losses" from its summer seasons, with producers citing the "economic uncertainty
No director stamped their signature on the television costume and period drama with as much style, substance and success as James Cellan
September 25, 1919: Recently, there have been complaints of theatre reviews coverage declining in mainstream newspapers. But a clipping from 100 years
Stoke, a Love Story is a richly allusive and playfully intelligent drama from writer Kat Boon and director Kat Hughes of Potboiler
Our story this week, revealing the precipitous decline in children's theatregoing in the past decade, is deeply worrying. That the rate of
How many of us can say they can still fit into clothes they first wore 42 years ago? Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus is
I am compiling a follow up to my Ken Dodd tribute book Absent Friends to be published in November 2020 and would
