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

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

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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In Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk, a privileged and wealthy cohort – lawyer, doctor, engineer and their families gather in an idyllic country retreat in the summer of 1905 to relax, party and gossip. But al