Miriam Sherwood’s late grandfather Laco Kalina lived a life large enough to fill five volumes of autobiography. Born in 1913, under the pseudonym Jan Kalina,...

In 1962 the new Coventry Cathedral was consecrated, just yards away from the ruins of its medieval predecessor, which was destroyed in a bombing...

It’s 1956 and a prodigal daughter returns to the Potteries after 13 years of mysterious exile in Deborah McAndrew’s latest work for Claybody Theatre....

Casey Nicholaw is currently Broadway's most prolific director/choreographer. He adds a fourth title to his portfolio with this joyously affectionate musical. Like his most recent...

First seen in 1991, Elijah Moshinsky’s production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra has helped cement a once neglected masterpiece in the Royal Opera’s repertoire, even...

Following Bananaman and Eugenius, here’s another in what's becoming a trend: the comic book-based musical. But while those two shows focused on the superhero,...

Super Duper Close Up is a solo show about anxiety. But it’s an anxiety that’s so entrenched, so multi-faceted and solidified it’s impossible to...

Originating around the ninth Century in Persia the story of Layla and Majnun was described by George Gordon, Lord Byron as “the Romeo and...

The need to find meaning in the face of mortality is at the heart of Love-Lies-Bleeding, a swaggeringly bleak story of assisted dying from...

You can’t move for Macbeths at the moment. There’s the Royal Shakespeare Company’s horror-infused staging at the Barbican. There’s the National Youth Theatre’s version...

In a pitch black room, a woman clips an LED torch to the page and reads from Jamaica Kincaid’s 1988 novel A Small Place....

It’s no surprise that the Orpheus and Eurydice myth has so often tempted songwriters. It’s a brilliantly tragic story about the power of songwriting...