Saalumarada Thimmakka's story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her life When she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first b…
A 1924 seance has solved the mystery surrounding a signed copy of the dramatist's first play Billed as "one of the greatest rarities of English literature", a signed copy of William Butler Y…
A 1655 edition of Shakespeare's tragedy names members of an acting troupe, one of whom was slain in an eerie echo of the play In December 1692, the actor William Mountfort was walking home i…
Am-dram provides a sense of community, breeds the professional stars of tomorrow, and boosts local economies... and it's suffering badly in the pandemic, reports David Barnett
It's precisely because of men like Max Stafford Clark that this play should be staged. Instead, Andrea Dunbar has been silenced by his actionsEarlier this year I met the actor George Costiga…