Almost every professional dance institution in Britain traces back, directly or by inheritance, to two immigrant women. One was the Irish-born Ninette de Valois, whose…
You do not need a degree or a licence to direct plays in the UK. Most directors get started by directing student, fringe or community…
Before The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov was a medical student in Moscow paying his way with jokes. In the early 1880s he…
Anthony Almeida's Othello at HOME, Manchester moves the play to the early 1980s and the Falklands. David Chateris on a staging in which rank and…
By Lana Sterling Sam Wanamaker’s relentless, decades-long campaign to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s Bankside defied skepticism, bringing a vital piece of theatrical history back…
At a dress rehearsal on the stage of the Royal Opera House in the summer of 1954, a woman of sixty-nine in ordinary day clothes…
By Sara Bright The National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976 on London’s South Bank, embodies postwar Britain’s commitment to public culture…
From 7 to 31 August the Edinburgh Festival Fringe takes over the city again, and the numbers alone explain why it exhausts and thrills in…
Simon Stone has built a career on taking the oldest stories and refusing to keep them at arm’s length. His new production of The Oresteia…
How does the National’s new Hamlet build its meaning? We decode a visual language of stark sets & modern dress to reveal the production's thesis.