D avid Bradley boasts a storied six-decade career, playing an intimidating list of “grouchy and malicious” characters, including the dastardly Walder Frey in Game of Thrones and a gun-wielding farmer

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

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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

Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exuberant world of The Tyrant Philosophers