This month’s story, by O Henry, is a tale of a love triangle re-imagined by the narrator for the stage. The title, ‘The Thing’s The Play’, is a subversion of the Shakespearean quotation ‘The Play’s Th

Shakespeare’s works are peppered with countless food references: pies, cakes, capons and a great deal of sherry, for starters. Some are set-dressing details, but many were allusions that would have be

MADELEINE could not think when she last went to the theatre. Her father didn’t enjoy plays much, and Madeleine tended to go along with what he liked. They were close; the Gilbert family was just the t

Silver, red or even black, marriage gowns of the past were seldom white, until Queen Victoria opted for the hue of purity in 1840, discovers Matthew Dennison

IT’S TAKEN OVER 90 YEARS, BUT FINALLY HERE COMES , AS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL GIVES NEW LIFE – AND A VOICE – TO ONE OF UNIVERSAL HORROR’S MOST ICONIC CREATIONS FOR A FEMINIST, PUNK ROCK TALE OF AMOUR FOU

Music is a serious business. Whether it’s love, death, heartbreak, loneliness, power, conflict, destruction, sin, faith, hope, despair… you name it, every weighty subject and state of mind has been ta