The award-winning performance artist tells why she has penned a libretto starring single mums for a new BBC documentary Bryony Kimmings, the award-winning British performer behind a success…
Playwright and director says BLM and the lockdown have prompted him to stage a financially risky season of black work British culture has been guilty of "hoodwinking" black people into think…
Communities secretary announces new planning rules forcing councils to take impact of Covid-19 into account Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Empty theatres and…
Britain's most prolific playwright is producing and acting in his own audio play, but he holds out little hope for live theatre in the short term Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most ad…
The star speaks of his panic about the uncertainty of reopening and his sorrow for struggling young actors Simon Russell Beale, one of Britain's leading Shakespearean actors, has spoken of h…
Many black actors leave Britain to find fame, but the Londoner's BBC lead role follows years of acclaimed work on stage and screen Related: Noughts & Crosses author hits back at race-bai…
The acclaimed dramatist, 82, says he is too old to follow up the work inspired by the fate of his recently discovered Jewish familySir Tom Stoppard, Britain's most celebrated living playwrig…
After an Edinburgh debut just 12 months ago, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow tell of the whirlwind success of their musical about Henry VIII's wivesTwelve months can be a long time, especially if …
Hip-hop, grime and urban violence take centre stage in a new production of the Shakespeare tragedyModern street slang, words such as fam, peng, fleek and hench, should be dropped into Shakes…
Comic work by German composer has been reinterpreted for modern audiencesGerman composer Kurt Weill is ranked high among the best of the 20th century and his music remains popular outside th…
Whether it's Russian or simply 'northern', directors face new hurdles in the casting of 'authentic' speaking rolesWhen Scottish film star Sean Connery delivered his lines in the 1987 hit The…
Star who is taking legal action on antisemitic trolling will take role in Merchant of Venice that shifts setting to London's East EndTracy Ann Oberman, the actress at the centre of a legal c…
This year's Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents " from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth " who blazed the same trailAmong the many voices booming out across comedy venue…
He's probably the most notable stage actor around, a master of the classics who seems to be making Shakespeare's greatest characters his own. Next on the agenda is Macbeth at London's Almeid…
Award-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells how Guardian writer Luke Harding's account of the 2006 murder inspired her new dramaWhen Lucy Prebble tackled financial fraud and the collapse of …
New drama Mad As Hell explores how actor Peter Finch's real-life anger over snobbery and prejudice fuelled his Oscar-winning performance in the 1976 filmHis "mad as hell" outburst as America…
Stage shows salute theatre genius of king of comic capers 10 years on from his death"Irrepressible" was the word often used to describe the Essex-born performer and writer Ken Campbell. And,…
The venue that entertained the razed camp's migrants will reopen in France " as its playwright founders find acclaim at the Young VicWhen the tent in Calais that housed the Good Chance Theat…
Rare revival of the author's play Dear Brutus will drop adults into a Neverland-like worldNeverland, the magical place made famous by JM Barrie's Peter Pan, will be closer than you think thi…
Nottingham Playhouse celebrates its 50th aniversary with a night of little-known worksLost short plays by Harold Pinter, John Mortimer and Shelagh Delaney are to be performed again for the f…
Memoir tells how legacy of tragic first wife haunted his workFor 60 years actor Henry Woolf was the intimate friend of Harold Pinter, the Nobel laureate widely judged the greatest theatrical…
Playwright finds inspiration for his new play in the travails of the faction-riven partyJames Graham's 2012 hit play This House, set in parliament in the 1970s, raised a few pertinent quest…
A look back at the evolution of the event, now celebrating its 70th year, and how risk-taking has kept it ahead of the gameSacrifice in the name of art was more than just a noble sounding id…
Keith West and Mark Wirtz's haunting 60s hit is centrepiece of completed showGrocer Jack " properly known as Excerpt from a Teenage Opera " the strange novelty song that made the number one …
As he picks up a lifetime achievement award, Andrew Lloyd Webber reflects, in an exclusive interview, on his career and the censoring of a Dreamcoat lyricAndrew Lloyd Webber has intervened i…