618 stories by "Fergus Morgan"
Imagine it’s Christmas Eve. Imagine you’ve just been dumped by your boyfriend. Imagine that you’ve not slept in 36 hours. And imagine
What drives a son to kill his father? That’s the question at the heart of Sergio Blanco’s Thebes Land, a dark, slippery Latin American import about
At a time when the British press discusses America more than it does Britain, along comes this autumn's second West End Sam
The New Wolsey Theatre's annual pantomime ian’t just your regular, run-of-the-mill, f-list celebrity-filled affair. It's a Christmas show with a difference: a
He's back. After an Oscar-winning excursion into Hollywood, Mark Rylance bestrides the London stage once again in Nice Fish, an enigmatic tragi-comedy
Colin Milburn was a bombastic first class cricketer, who lit up the County Championship with his box-office batting in the late 1960s.
Like AC/DC, Andrew Lloyd Webber is back in black, returning to the West End with a new musical all about the liberating
Another week, another earnest play addressing the refugee crisis. Except Removal Men is different. Co-written by MJ Harding and Jay Miller, it's
Since David Bowie died in January " an early sign of 2016's relentless cruelty " his star has, if possible, risen even
At a time when American foreign policy is pretty high on the world's agenda, along comes a play that tackles its most
If you thought 2016 was bad for celebrity deaths, try April 1992, when two of Britain's most cherished funnymen " Benny Hill
In one of the biggest theatrical events of the year, Glenda Jackson has returned to the stage after a 25-year hiatus in
"Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?" wails Morrissey in The Smiths' Still Ill, a song
Most productions profess to be timely in some way, but in the case of Deny Deny Deny, Jonathan Maitland's five-handed drama about
It's 2020. Theresa May has just won a second term, taking the reins of a Tory-Ukip coalition with Nigel Farage as her
It's not difficult to see why the Finborough has programmed a revival of Howard Brenton's Magnificence. Written in 1973 during a time of financial crisis, IRA terrorism, and an emergent far-…
It's one of the National's greatest success stories. Amadeus, Peter Shaffer's dramatic fictionalisation of the intertwined lives of Antonio Salieri and Mozart,
It's probably a good idea to have a coffee or three before seeing David Mercatali's revival of Blue Heart, Caryl Churchill's 1997 double-bill of tongue-twisting, head-spinning wordplay. Beca…
Highbury Opera Theatre's production of Lost In The Stars " Kurt Weill's last musical-cum-opera " in Islington's Union Chapel is actually the work's London premiere, only 67 years after it wa…
Skin A Cat should be compulsory viewing for anyone under 25. Scratch that, it should be compulsory viewing for everyone. A hysterically funny, warm-hearted, autobiographical three-hander abo…
First a novel, then a film, now a play, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist's prolonged shelf life is proof that it is a story for our times. This first ever stage adaptation by Step…
What do you know about the Democratic Republic of the Congo? That it is the seventh poorest country in the world, when its vast mineral reserves should make it one of the richest? That betwe…
Emma Rice’s work is theatrical marmite. You either love it or hate it. For some, her productions for Kneehigh were endlessly innovative, relentlessly entertaining breaths of fresh air.…
Heart To Heart Theatre’s How We Think We Think begins inauspiciously. Peter Dewhurst as Tom ushers the audience to their seats, then haltingly embarks on a prepared presentation on hum…
Noël Coward tends to take a bit of a bashing nowadays. The average Coward production is about as unfashionable as its octogenarian audience is unaware of where they are. But now that Terr…
