Although the author’s name appears in the title, Floella Benjamin’s Coming to England is a curiously impersonal play. The need to retain the interest of a young target audience results not only in an ...

Britten’s Phaedra, text taken from Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre (of which I seem to have five different ...

Even theatre companies and sportspeople have had to flee the country and continue their struggle for freedom in Belarus from ...

Entering the Crucible auditorium on a dark evening, a huge space under a muted sun reveals a busy market at the end of a working day. We are in Oro, Nigeria, before the end of WW2 where the Yoruba ...

As the lights go down in the auditorium, the cutaway of the boat, the Orca, recreated beautifully by designer Duncan Henderson, is silhouetted against the moving seascape on the three cinema screens ...

Opera North is a force to be reckoned with, offering audiences a shrewd mixture of neglected works and well-loved classics.

The amounts involved are far from negligible. Organisations with an existing regular funding relationship with Creative ...

The first surprise is the blank canvas bare staging, against which the protagonists pose and present themselves during the overture. Hill-Gibbins says he likes to strip down and simplify, especially a ...

Seattle Rep continues its excellent 2024–2025 season with an exemplary revival of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, a ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet celebrates its 60th anniversary with a return to The Royal Ballet. Based on Shakespeare’s great love story, MacMillan’s adaptation was created originally on ...

Following an unexpected friendship between a psychopath in a high security hospital and his secret lover’s husband, Madeleine Brettingham’s (Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, BBC) debut play Dear ...

Dr. David Mortimore, renowned neurologist, is about to deliver the most important lecture of his life. A knighthood is certainly within reach! When into his hospital sanctuary comes Jane Tate—ex-nurse ...