Rafaella Marcus is directing what is billed as the first professional UK production of Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead in 80 years. She talks...

The centenary of the end of the First World War offers the ideal opportunity to look at this period of history from unusual angles...

“I’ve been single so long I’ve started having sex dreams about my vibrator.” The opening line of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way...

The latest press night parties, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures. This week’s highlights include the press nights of Six at the Arts Theatre,...

The Victorians aren’t usually renowned for brevity. These three comediettas (A Winning Hazard, Allow Me to Apologise and Orange Blossoms) by J.P. Wooler would...

Tony Harrison’s anti-war verse drama Square Rounds is an interesting curiosity. Premiered as a technical extravaganza on the National Theatre’s huge Olivier stage in...

The latest press night parties, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures. This week’s highlights include the press nights of Homos at the Finborough Theatre, Little Shop...

Now same-sex marriage is legal, is the struggle for LGBT+ equality over? Has the gay community lost its reason for being in today’s US?...

It’s the law of theatre that if there’s a gun on stage it will go off before the play ends. In Robert Graves’ unperformed...