Directors take centre stage

On a grim weekend this April, I made the trip to Helsingør, on Denmark’s Øresund strait. William Shakespeare never did so, but in 1586 three actors who would become his colleagues in the Lord Chamberl

The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the ...

200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

THE man tapped the tip of his quill pen on the table impatiently, but the words still refused to come. There was a hesitant tap at the door. “Yes?” His voice crackled with impatience. “If you please,

Sir David Hare’s new play, currently in Bath, examines what theatre means and the legacy of the great names from the Victorian era, as an old Eugene O’Neill receives a fine revival

Robert Thicknesse on Opera TO ANY SENSIBLE ...