Farah Saleh’s performance dressed in university robes, recalling the refusal to attend a graduation ceremony in protest at Edinburgh University investments in companies arming Israel, mixes her dance ...

Jasmin Gleeson performs the piece, telling the story of Shirley, an Irish-born writing prodigy, tasked with penning a horror ...

A couple of weeks ago, The Lowry staged By Royal Appointment, a no-warts-at-all interpretation of the life of the late Queen ...

The Mark Thomas Comedy Counterattack takes place in the former home of The Police Club of Edinburgh and is no exception to his sharp informative humour.

Deathtrap is the story of Sidney Bruhl, a playwright whose last success was 18 years ago. When one of his students, Clifford ...

Festivals in Ilkley, Durham and Whitby will feature events with Alan Ayckbourn, Hugh Bonneville, Miriam Margolyes, Alan ...

Beginnings are important: where you start a story, particularly one which defies chronological style. In the case of Perfect ...

Birmingham’s Old Joint Stock Theatre is to use its biggest ever cast—16 performers—when it stages the musical Bonnie and ...

Luckily for the hapless thespians, Rick (Toby Thompson), a new addition to the troupe, has a mind for writing stories and a ...

Britain's history with refugees is a rather long, often unsavoury and frequently under-reported one. Rarely is that more ...

Emilie Robson, winner of last year’s prize for her play Dogs On The Metro, said, “winning the North East Playwriting prize ...

The writer, Jim Steinman, said a version of the Peter Pan story inspired some of the songs on the Bat Out of Hell album, and ...