Two years after Oxford Dictionaries chose “youthquake” as its word of the year, Zest Theatre presents a manifesto for the term in a production...

Anthony Besch's production of Tosca, set in Rome in 1943 on the eve of Mussolini's defeat, does not appear to have aged since its...

Zinnie Harris once worked as a writer-in-residence at a hospice. In Meet Me at Dawn, she distills the experience of grief – how it...

This, to be clear, is not a play about the Yorkshire Ripper. That story has been told often enough, his name is known –...

Though Robert Louis Stevenson’s slight but thematically rich story of the unleashing of the dark soul has been dramatised in numerous different forms since...

Rigoletto belatedly enters the Glyndebourne repertory via Christiane Lutz’s staging, a radical rewrite of Verdi’s revenge tragedy based on a play by Victor Hugo. If...

Accused of being radicalised after returning home, a volunteer at a refugee camp  is cajoled and coerced into making a confession by a mysterious...

Women writers can still labour against a belief that their fiction must be autobiographical – that the power to make things up belongs to...

With its religious idolatry, white dress purity, red rose lust, and Sicilian superstition, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo is an unlikely comedy. It's a...

Before she helmed the global hit Mamma Mia!, Phyllida Lloyd began her career as an opera director with Opera North in 1991. Now, her...

This new collaborative work from Katie Mitchell is hard to define. The title, 'Magic Land' in English, comes from the text of one of...

As is so often the case with the children of immigrants, Zara presents different versions of herself to the world. There’s the person she...