With the sounds of trains rattling ominously overhead, the small stage at Waterloo East is the perfect setting for a play that scales great heights,

A season celebrating survival awaits audiences at Tyneside’s freshest fringe venue. Laurels Theatre, in the heart of Whitley Bay’s town centre, has unveiled a programme

Mourning is an intensely personal experience and, as no two people cope with grief in the same way, their actions may seem inappropriate to an

Third night of the run, not a press night, and the applause is loud. The people like it; my companion (a Wagner buff), specially down

Royal Exchange Joint Artistic Director Bryony Shanahan has relocated David Eldridge’s first play in his ongoing trilogy, originally a hit at the National Theatre in

The latest online presentation from New York’s Mint Theater Company was recorded at a live performance in 2014. Playwright George Kelly was prolific a century

DOM the play by Lloyd Evans is always funny, well performed and occasionally has some thoughtful things to say, though those thoughtful things are never

Never work with children and animals, they say. The ever-popular musical Annie does not heed this particular warning, featuring not only performers still in primary

The lethal paranoia of the Soviet Union’s Stalinist regime sent millions of people to the gulags (labour camps) where many died due to the appalling

Before Cavalli, before Monteverdi, in the beginning there was Emilio De’ Cavalieri. He was one of a group of Florentine aristocrats seeking to reproduce the

As this racy, modern version of Hamlet demonstrates, Stratford Festival in Ontario is still the go-to location for high quality Shakespearean productions. Director Peter Pasyk’s

“Parisian life—endless fun and games,” exclaims good-time girl Gabrielle. That seems about right for this glorious, frolicsome romp where it seems any time is party