"There was a feeling that people all around me turned from fear to 'We will win'" Â The first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine affords a rare opportunity to get the inside t…
It's not that Sarah Kane had magical powers, but that she was with total integrity exploring her question. And there were a lot of amazing questions at that time.
'In terms of the future, we want 503 to be resilient and it feels like our community of audience and artists believe in the necessity of an organisation such as ours. At the same time, there…
The more you think about the invitation to the audience " as you say 'come, be blocked off behind screens, we will spray you and present shows where actors stand apart, and we will try to en…
'It feels to me like, with The Great Gatsby, we had an opportunity, and resulting from that a duty, to use the show to work out some of the key things that might help the industry as a whole…
'We've spent seven years building to this point and three years to open the thing, changed the area and culture of the place, and in the snap of the fingers, it's a ghost town.'
'The major question is that the majority of theatres cannot open with social distancing in place " it's impossible, for economics, for the business case let alone the experience, it just doe…
'The real unknown is when people are going to want to go back into the theatres, regardless of government advice. We don't know that. It will be a long road.'
'I actually managed to be quite philosophical about it in the end. There's a sense that we're all in it today, and there are much bigger things at play, like people dying and getting sick.'
"As soon as the theatres closed in the week of 16 March 2020, we thought 'we need to remember we're a theatre and think about what our role in relation to the city might be in this strange w…
As the weeks of lockdown continue, with theatres up and down the country and around the world closed for the foreseeable future, I caught up with another artistic director, Anthony Biggs of …
Weeks into lockdown, with theatres up and down the country and around the world closed for the foreseeable future, I caught up with the artistic directors of Cirencester's Barn Theatre, Bela…
On the weekend of 14 March 2020, following the closure of theatre on Broadway (on 12 March), it became clear that something overwhelming was about to happen to British theatre.
An American classic right royally revived! The garlands belonging to the ensemble (all 43 of them), dancing on the spot as if gliding on ice, wind-milling arms furiously yet gracefully.
James and Jack Fox show great tenderness in this occasionally strained stage version of the hit book, says Dominic Cavendish
Simon McBurney and Robert Lepage discuss their Edinburgh Festival show
Ben Whishaw is self-possesed but the atmosphere is more WI party than blood-soaked tragedy, says Dominic Cavendish
Alan Bennett's monologues - which won awards when they were broadcast on the BBC - transfer to the stage with mixed results, says Dominic Cavendish
Patrick Marber turns out another gem during Rufus Norris's impressive honeymoon period, says Dominic Cavendish
A Samuel Beckett festival provides a unique opportunity to combine sightseeing with thoughts of loneliness and death, says Dominic Cavendish
Dominic Cavendish found himself wading through this production
This revival of Jerry Herman's 1974 musical is irresistibly entertaining
Ubu Roi still holds sway, almost 120 years after its notorious Parisian premiere, says Dominic Cavendish
Generations of actors deliver the goods, says Dominic Cavendish
Bacharach could make anyone's teardrops fall, but his material is drained of pathos in this project, says Dominic Cavendish