News: Royal and Derngate announce Made in Northampton 2015
A season including new commissions and a world premiere has been announced today by Royal & Derngate, Northampton. The theatre introduced its 2015 Made i...
James Dacre
Review: Holy Warriors, The Globe
Holy Warriors, a new play by David Eldridge, is billed as "a fantasia on the Third Crusade and the history of violent struggle in the Holy Lands" — like other ...
Review: The Body of an American, The Gate
It would seem that in the 37 years since Susan Sontag published On Photography – her collection of essays discussing, amongst other things, the 'outsider' s...
Review: 4000 Miles
It’s turning out to be good year for American playwrights in British theatre. No sooner has the curtain come down on the Royal Court Theatre's production of B...
Review: 4000 Miles
There are some plays that knock you sideways. It's not necessarily the best-written or the most moving, but there are times when something you see on stage chim...
The Thrill of Love
It's hard not to feel a little bit grubby after watching Amanda Whittington's play about the last woman in England to be hanged: we are invited into her life in...