David Benedict looks at two recent plays – Sam Grabiner’s Boys on the Verge of Tears and Harry McDonald’s Foam, both set in public bathrooms – to examine how this unlikely location yields tender stories
Reflecting on Nancy Medina’s keynote speech at The Stage’s Future of Theatre conference, Lyn Gardner asks how the industry can share the responsibility of theatre’s future more equitably
David Benedict looks at two recent plays – Sam Grabiner’s Boys on the Verge of Tears and Harry McDonald’s Foam, both set in public bathrooms – to examine how this unlikely location yields tender stories
Thangam Debbonaire could be heading up the UK arts sector under a Labour government by 2025. Her speech at The Future of Theatre conference 2024 gave reasons to be optimistic, but there are still plenty of policy details to be fleshed out
Welcome to our weekly discussion forum for key issues facing those working in theatre and the performing arts. This week, we ask: what kind of job have you never done, but would like to?
The award-winning playwright has not written a new play in a decade, but as People, Places and Things returns to the West End and a Game of Thrones stage spin-off continues development, he talks about the responsibility of accurate storytelling and updating his vivid addiction drama for today’s audiences
From crossing vast mountain ranges and committing brutal acts of violence, to conjuring life-sized tigers and going inside the human body, theatremakers have long attempted to stage the seemingly unstageable. Artists responsible for some of these onstage phenomena tell Lyn Gardner how they do it, and why, sometimes, doing more with less can be the most powerful solution
The Calder Bookshop has been serving the industry and theatre fans for two decades.. The shop’s director, Luis Gayol, talks to Alexander Cohen about its rich history, its wide collection of both modern and second-hand books and his team of colleagues
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