By Sara Bright The true magic of London theatre isn’t confined to the stage. It lives in the bones of the buildings themselves – in…
By Sara Bright An Inventory of Hope. The proposition is almost insultingly simple. A boy’s mother is in hospital, having done “something stupid.” He decides…
By Sara Bright The Ghosts We Keep The wind that scours the rural Irish landscape in Conor McPherson’s play The Weir is more than just weather. It…
By Tessa Nolan Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons has been called the definitive play about conscience, and in Jonathan Church’s touring production –…
By Sara Bright Trying to pick shows at the Edinburgh Fringe is its own special kind of madness. With thousands of options, the program itself…
By Sara Bright The West End has always been an ecosystem of calculated sentiment. For every flash of genuine, lightning-in-a-bottle genius, there are a dozen…
By Tessa Nolan There is a particular kind of electricity that hums through London’s South Bank in the days before a major theatrical opening. It…
When Imelda Staunton steps onto a London stage, the ambient temperature of the auditorium invariably shifts. Over a formidable career spanning more than four decades,…
By Sara Bright On the bustling Bankside of the River Thames, a distinctive circular structure with a thatched roof stands as a vibrant testament to…
By Sara Bright The air in the stalls of a Broadway theatre is a unique substance, thick with anticipation and the ghosts of performances past.…