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It’s the hottest day on record, the south coast swelters as we all look for a way to cool off… and on stage at Chichester Festival Theatre it is hotter still as their big summer …

Updating and rewriting a classic text is a tricky proposition and there is a fine line between celebrating the universality of the original themes and commentary on human behaviour, and grounding the contemporary reworking too …

Following yesterday’s interview with Renske Mann about The Girl in the Green Jumper, the play based on her memoir, we now turn to playwright Gail Louw, who tells us more about how she formed a …

Thomas Hardy and circus are perhaps not two terms you’d usually hear in close proximity, but Ockham’s Razor defy all expectation with their adaptation of Hardy’s 1891 novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Atmospheric, evocative and… …

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming one-night only concert performance of coming-of-age rock musical Bare at the London Palladium in April. As previously announced Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie and Clyde, Arts Theatre/Garrick Theatre, …

WANNA BE IN MOVIES? REALLY? BRRRR! We open in a chilly Suffolk cottage in the rain (I am tonight probably the only person here to have come direct from a chilly Suffolk cottage, in rain. …

Central Scotland’s leading arts venue, Macrobert Arts Centre is delighted to announce Ed Robson as its new Artistic Director and CEO. Arts consultant, Lucy Mason is Interim Director until Ed takes up his position in …

by Maria Majewska Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2018 film Cold War is a profound account of Polish identity, cultural homogenisation, politicisation of folklore and the trauma of migration from the Soviet bloc. As a Polish migrant with …

The challenge of working a muggle job while trying to balance a career in theatre is at the heart of Nanny, an ‘enthusiastically silly play’ with music from Folio Theatre Company. Some pour their souls …

Far from mellowing with the passing of time, Mamet's drama still resonates deafeningly

Haberdashery Girls...An excerpt from my forthcoming book of interviews: Where Babies Come From.I asked people, ‘How were you told the facts of life?’And, ‘What information were you given?’Here is Belinda, who used to be an …

Jane Asher and Olivia Vinall lead with passionate performances in the Orange Tree’s production of The Circle now playing at Richmond Theatre “You’re such a ripping good sort” There may only be a few hundred …

Shostakovich’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies clearly belong together – flip sides of the same coin, the composer wrong-footing the Soviet establishment with an irony bordering on insanity. The opening Largo of the Sixth is one …

*Sighs in Shakespeare* I think I may have officially given up hope of my Shakespeare page ever being completed. Last week the RSC announced a ridiculous amount of productions (covering most, if not all, of …

Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the spirit of international theatre alive in London. Whereas much mainstream and big-name theatre feels increasingly insular, the smaller players are …