While they are common in Continental Europe, there is no major subsidised theatre in England with a permanent company of actors at its heart....

Steven Atkinson, artistic director of HighTide, an East Anglia-based theatre company that specialises in new writing, says theatres need to stop relying on a...

What if you woke up one day and everyone thought you were hip-hop artist Kanye West? That’s the sky-high concept behind the new play...

Anger is like an infection in Heroine. It seeps into people compromised by loss or grief and poisons their best intentions into something hate-filled. Ex-soldier...

When is a theatre not a theatre? When it’s a New Orleans jazz bar or pulls in punters on the beach. Holly Williams speaks to...

A new 120-seat performance venue will open in Walthamstow later this month. As well as theatre, dance and performance, CentrE17 will also host workshops and...

New-writing festival HighTide is to transfer its pop-up theatre and entire season to London after its run in Aldeburgh. The Suffolk-based festival, which celebrated its...

Al Smith’s Harrogate was the most striking piece of new writing to premiere at the 2015 HighTide festival (impressive given that 2015 was probably...

Theresa Ikoko’s first produced play, Girls, premiered at HighTide Festival in Suffolk before transferring to London’s Soho Theatre. She tells Georgia Snow how it...