Increasingly today's theatre resembles the Restoration period, when playwrights thought Shakespeare so crude that they helped him out by rewriting his plays,
If you've ever found yourself walking the corridors of a West End theatre before taking your seat, you'll probably have spotted posters
Alice Birch's beautiful, aching play depends on the careful delivery of synchronised and overlapping dialogue from characters in three time periods who
My first professional job as a child was playing Little Cosette in Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre and as an adult
How did you start in theatre? I went to drama school and then worked as an actor in theatre and film for
Meet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details…​​​​​ Hari
Portentous images loom out of the darkness in the opening moments of Douglas Rintoul's moody, muddled Macbeth. A child flies a kite.
With the permission of playwright Willy Russell, Mina Anwar has tweaked the script of his 1986 play Shirley Valentine to re-set the
Bloody Sunday prosecution, abortion legalisation, family loyalty and annoying strangers at bus stops " Kate Reid's play translates Northern Ireland's complex politics
The theatre industry can be a tough one to crack, particularly for those starting out. John Byrne speaks to the parents of
Breach Theatre's It's True It's True It's True " which won atThe Stage Edinburgh Awards in 2018 " will be performed in
Sarah Bareilles and Gavin Creel have extended their stint in the West End production of Waitress by two weeks. The stars will
It's a brave choice to make a ballet about Jacqueline du Pré. Cathy Marston's first work for the Covent Garden main stage
Northampton's theatre and arts offering is set to be boosted by the creation of a cultural board, which is being set up
Best known for its revivals of musicals and the classics, the not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre Company branched out into new work more than
I knew it would be a big step to become a freelance costume designer after 13 years of working in the safety
After training at RADA and making her stage debut in 1940 in her native Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre, later becoming a member of
However you wish to analyse the latest diversity statistics released by Arts Council England, one inescapable conclusion is that disabled people are
Nottingham Playhouse, the Donmar Warehouse, Hampstead Theatre and the Almeida are among the theatres at risk of jeopardising their Arts Council England
Even if Ben Elton's successful sitcom about William Shakespeare had been given a fourth series, it seems only natural that they would
A pioneering figure who transformed the teaching of spoken English, Jocelyn Bell paved the way for a less mannered, more colloquial approach
No canines take to the stage in Paul Minx's two-hander The Dog Walker. This is probably something of a mercy for them,
Tony Kushner is nothing if not verbose. The Pulitzer-winning playwright has crafted a career out of extensive, intellectually engaging drama, perhaps most
Playing in a week when the press seems unusually full of the impact technology has on disordered eating, Francesca Forristal's one-woman show
Amelia Cavallo is a queer, blind theatre practitioner and academic. Preparing for her disabled-led cabaret show Unsightly Drag, she talks to Ruth