NEWS: Joan Littlewood sculpture to be unveiled
A sculpture of one of theatre’s most famous directors is to be unveiled in London. The Joan Littlewood sculpture will be unveiled outside the Theatre Royal S...
Joan Littlewood
Review: Oh What A Lovely War, Richmond Theatre
Juxtaposing the upbeat, optimistic songs of the 1910s with the horrible truths of life at the Front, Oh What A Lovely War caused much more than a stir when it w...
News: Fun Palaces launch
In 1961, theatre director Joan Littlewood was frustrated by the limitations conventional theatres imposed on the way in which art could be depicted. Rebelling a...
Feature: Fun Palaces – “we do not have an austerity of people”
Imagine a world where “we stop saying us and them about the arts and audiences”, where we can turn to someone and say “I’m an artist, you’re a butcher. What can...
Review: Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Nostalgia is firmly ‘in’ at Theatre Royal Stratford East. We had its important Oh, What A Lovely War! lambasted by the Education Secretary in February...
Review: Good Morning, Alamo!
Is Mark Giesser the Joan Littlewood of our time? Certainly, if his new play Good Morning, Alamo! is anything to go by. Even the use of an exclamation mark in th...