Your presumption that Mark Gatiss signed up for The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse based on National Theatre Live’s attachment is incorrect...

As Mark Shenton rightly observes in his column this week, Ian McKellen’s 80-stop tour of the UK is a “major statement of intent” for...

Few figures championed regional theatre in Britain in the second half of the last half century so steadfastly or successfully as John Harrison, who...

Ian McKellen, who has recently completed a West End run in the titanic role of King Lear and is approaching his 80th birthday, isn’t...

Playwright James Graham has claimed publicly funded theatres have a duty to showcase new writing, arguing they should be required to programme at least...

A "radical" overhaul of the existing commercial and subsidised contracts for regional theatre is being called for to bring together pay and terms under...

As his first play since taking over at Live Theatre opens, the artistic director tells Tracey Sinclair about his plans for building on the...

It was a wonderful experience to have Cicely Berry work on plays of mine at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1980s and 1990s. She...

If you wanted a barometer of the rude creative health of regional theatre, then the recent nominees and winners at the UK Theatre Awards...