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

He’s an award-winning actor, director and disruptor. Now, Alan Cumming wants to shake up a remote Highland town and turn it into a global theatre destination

When Tom Stoppard died in November, he left behind over 30 stage plays. But it was to Arcadia, his story of a Regency-era girl genius, that the obituarists most frequently returned. In Thomasina Cover

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No jury in the land could deny that Rumpole of the Bailey remains one of British television’s most beloved creations. The winning combination of John Mortimer’s sumptuous scripts and Leo McKern’s rich

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