Phillip Breen’s lively revival of John Vanburgh’s Restoration romp, The Provoked Wife, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, has glorious parts for both Caroline Quentin and Alexandra Gilbreath. Quentin’s
Casting Antony Sher as a white, South African, Shakespearean actor in John Kani‘s ferocious, funny and emotive new play, Kunene and the King, couldn’t be more perfect –
We live in a cultural, religious and morally sensitive age but, thank god, we haven’t lost our sense of humour. Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (The Office, Goodness
Jude Owusu cuts a blood-soaked swathe through history in an ambitious, epic and savage retelling of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Not for the
Joan Littlewood was the anarchic revolutionary of 20th century theatre and now her life is to be retold in Miss Littlewood, a musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company,
There’s always trepedation when you hear that a play is an ‘undiscovered gem’ by a playwright that has been ‘almost lost to history’. It sounds shorthand for describing
Stratford-Upon-Avon gets back to business with Ben Jonson’s potent black comedy, The Alchemist, which opens in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre next month. Polly Findlay returns to
