Let’s be totally honest, there was no perfect choice of artistic director to replace Emma Rice at Shakespeare’s Globe. There was no magic bullet. Had...

Casting has been announced for a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by comedian Sara Pascoe. Matt Whitchurch and Bethan Mary-James will lead the...

Based on the novel by Melvyn Bragg, Howard Goodall’s first musical The Hired Man is a depiction of working-class northern life in a period...

A production of the musical Paint Your Wagon leads the Liverpool Everyman’s new season. Other shows in the spring 2018 season include a contemporary production...

Leading theatre figures including Dominic Dromgoole and Daniel Evans have applauded Michelle Terry’s appointment at Shakespeare’s Globe despite her limited directing experience, claiming “many...

Emma Rice's valedictory Summer of Love season has so far whisked audiences from Shakespeare's Globe to a grotesquely clownish Verona in Daniel Kramer's Romeo and Juliet, and to...

The Avignon Festival is a central event in the French theatre calendar. Every July, hundreds of productions are presented between the official programme and...

The latest in a string of stage adaptations of David Walliams’ children’s books, The Midnight Gang is a pleasant, if somewhat shallow, family adventure. The...

A friend and I have formed a comedy sketch duo that has been doing well on the pub circuit for a year or so....

England’s oldest rep, Frinton Summer Theatre, has entertained local residents and holidaymakers for 80 years, proving a useful training ground for well-known performers. While...

With fire juggling, knife throwing, trampolining and tightrope walking, director Poppy Burton Morgan must have had a lot of fun putting this version of...

The appointment of Michelle Terry as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe is a smart move by a theatre board that rightly came in for ridicule...