Tag: The National Theatre

Hadestown’s journey onto the stage of the National Theatre – and, indeed, its upcoming transfer to Broadway – has been as tortuous and precarious as the story it

Do you mind not breathing down my neck and fingering my bottom? Rodney Ackland’s great disappointment, his ill-timed 1952 play, The Pink Room, is given another chance at

Tell me a scary story. A young couple check into a B&B to spend a few days touring Gettysburg – but instead of soaking up history, about a

The National Theatre’s new season features Rufus Norris directing Macbeth, starring Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff, and, 30 years after the play’s rediscovery, Absolute Hell returns to the

“Such a waste!” words frequently used to describe lost chances or opportunities and as an epitaph to someone whose life has been cut short, as though all that