The index of journalists committed to legend has been a short, and arguably diminishing, list in recent decades. The return of James Hillier’s adaptation of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell—which follows a ...

Although the author’s name appears in the title, Floella Benjamin’s Coming to England is a curiously impersonal play. The need to retain the interest of a young target audience results not only in an ...

Tom Chambers is to play Inspector Morse in an original story which will be only the second time the detective has appeared on stage.

Britten’s Phaedra, text taken from Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre (of which I seem to have five different ...

Even theatre companies and sportspeople have had to flee the country and continue their struggle for freedom in Belarus from ...

Rattlesnake (Richard Lock) enters the stage and starts plucking at a banjo, and the curtains open to the cast in full swing. Whip crack away, and the audience start clapping to the first rousing ...

Entering the Crucible auditorium on a dark evening, a huge space under a muted sun reveals a busy market at the end of a working day. We are in Oro, Nigeria, before the end of WW2 where the Yoruba ...

Erik Khan’s play Canned Goods imagines a version of the notorious Gleiwitz incident of 1939 in which a squad of Germans pretending to be Polish soldiers raided a German radio station to give Hitler an ...

If a producer came up with the idea of reviving Robert Bolt’s heavyweight 1960 play A Man for All Seasons on the basis of the popularity of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, he or she would have been proudly ...

As the lights go down in the auditorium, the cutaway of the boat, the Orca, recreated beautifully by designer Duncan Henderson, is silhouetted against the moving seascape on the three cinema screens ...

Opera North is a force to be reckoned with, offering audiences a shrewd mixture of neglected works and well-loved classics.

Tom Chambers is to play Inspector Morse in an original story which will be only the second time the detective has appeared on ...