Newcastle is very fortunate to have had Alleyne Dance, founded by identical twin sisters Kristina and Sadé Alleyne, present Far From Home, their new touring

There is a rambling lack of focus to Miranda Rose Hall’s superficial play. You might imagine at times that it’s an exercise in grief “meditation

Theatre company FlawBored’s debut show is a stonker, not only remarkable for being such an accomplished first turn but also for taking on so sensitive

With For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy running in the West End, Ryan Calais Cameron scores again with

I’ve only finished a fraction of P G Wodehouse’s vast oeuvre—encompassing seventy-plus novels, dozens of plays and hundreds of short stories—but everything I’ve read of

It’s perhaps not surprising Joe DiPietro’s provocatively named F**king Men is primarily about sex. It returns to the intimate Waterloo East Theatre with a bang

The history of the playing of Shylock on stage is, in some ways, the history of attitudes towards Jews in different times and countries, particularly

When it comes to a Big Top circus, they don’t come any bigger than the one that nestles between the legs of Blackpool Tower. Now,

Magical, mystical, magnificent… Philip Glass’s Akhnaten (1983/4) returns to the Coliseum for its first ENO revival since 2016. I have seen it three times and the score still

More than fifty years since Nobel-prize-winning Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame wrote Accidental Death of An Anarchist, amazingly not much seems to have

Magnus and Ben are not the first brothers brought to a reckoning by their father’s death—witness any number of plays, films or books. In activist

After a forced exit from Germany during the Hitler years, Brecht completed The Good Person of Szechwan in Santa Monica in 1941. Nina Segal’s “brilliant