Farah Saleh’s performance dressed in university robes, recalling the refusal to attend a graduation ceremony in protest at Edinburgh University investments in companies arming Israel, mixes her dance ...

A couple of weeks ago, The Lowry staged By Royal Appointment, a no-warts-at-all interpretation of the life of the late Queen ...

Joan is many things—a miracle worker certainly, from Shaw’s 20 th century viewpoint not divinely orchestrated but rather the ...

Festivals in Ilkley, Durham and Whitby will feature events with Alan Ayckbourn, Hugh Bonneville, Miriam Margolyes, Alan ...

On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Shostakovich (1906–75) is brought to life, especially for those who know only ...

Birmingham’s Old Joint Stock Theatre is to use its biggest ever cast—16 performers—when it stages the musical Bonnie and ...

Beginnings are important: where you start a story, particularly one which defies chronological style. In the case of Perfect ...

In at least 90% of cases, when a commercial organisation changes its name, that reflects some severe underlying weakness and ...

Emilie Robson, winner of last year’s prize for her play Dogs On The Metro, said, “winning the North East Playwriting prize ...

There's not much room left to dig deep into the consequences of being caught inside this savagely tough subculture or ...

Luckily for the hapless thespians, Rick (Toby Thompson), a new addition to the troupe, has a mind for writing stories and a ...

I Now Pronounce You Lost and Found is a piece of theatre that has a message to go beyond its community: it has lessons for ...