835 stories by "Paul Vale"
A lone, heavily coated figures staggers on to a vast empty stage and the sound of howling winds whistle about the room.
The 1999 movie Cruel Intentions transported the intrigues of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' novel Les Liaisons dangereuses to present day Manhattan. It
In a dressing room at the Edinburgh Fringe, a cabaret star Ginger Johnson collapses under the stress of alt-right politics, global warming
It's unlikely you are going to be greeted with more enthusiasm than you are by the cast of Jekyll and Hyde. Adopting
Jordan Waller is possibly best known for his role as Lord Arthur Paget in ITV's Victoria. In this self-penned, autographical piece Waller
When Harry Clayton-Wright came out to his parents at 14, his mother accepted this revelation but was unable to talk to him
Amy Booth-Steel has been through the mill. A successful jobbing actor and a popular member of the theatre community, the trajectory of
Marcus Brigstocke has made regular appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe since winning the BBC New Comedy Award in 1996, either doing stand-up
The Emil Dale Academy has announced the five winners of The Stage Scholarships 2019. For the two-year BTec sixth-form course in musical
The Rudolf Steiner Theatre, situated just off Baker Street, is an appropriate home for a small-scale Sherlock Holmes drama. Take Note Theatre's
Jason Robert Brown is perhaps best known for his musicals Parade and The Last Five Years. Neither of them was a massive
In 2001, when Closer to Heaven was originally produced, its creators Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka the Pet Shop Boys, were
Of all Noel Coward's plays, Private Lives is the one that epitomises his distinctive theatrical language. The wit is as dry as
This year's winner of The Stage Scholarship at Sylvia Young Theatre School is 12-year-old Gretchen Withecomb, from Lewisham in London. The award
This year The Stage Scholarship at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts has been awarded to 13-year-old Maddie Monti. The talented performer
The pleasure and perils of polyamory are expounded in S Asher Gelman's Afterglow, arriving to London following a hugely successful run Off-Broadway
Few crimes are more despicable than those that exploit the elderly. Shockingly, more than 450,000 people over the age of 66 suffer
Martyn Hett was 29 years old when he was killed, along with 22 others, in the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017. Hett
Inspired by the Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt, Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a song cycle that gives testimony
The actor Coral Browne moved to London from Australia in 1936 with a string of classical leading-lady credits to her name and
Philip Osment's play This Island's Mine was originally performed by theatre company Gay Sweatshop in 1988. The government had just introduced the
Andrew Norris' musical began life in 2004 as a nostalgic pastiche of the Australian soap operas Neighbours and Home and Away, set
The play A Belly Full started life as a screenplay by Canada-based authors Marcia Kash and Mary Colin Chisholm. It failed to
Jonathan Harvey's plays have frequently graced the stage at Above the Stag. The new venue opened with a production of his play
Immersive dining experiences are on the increase. Companies such as Gingerline and Funicular are carving out a space for themselves, offering elaborate
