270 stories by "Andrew Dickson"
After a prizewinning "Fiddler on the Roof" and a lauded take on Sondheim, Jordan Fein is tackling Arthur Miller's enigmatic "Broken Glass."
A Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's hit novel gives voice and agency to a historical character we know little about.
A conversation with the playwright about the long journey to "Leopoldstadt," which has just come to Broadway.
The British designer, whose new installation will be unveiled at Tate Modern this week, made her name in theater. These days, you're as likely to find her work in art galleries, stadium gigs…
Dawn King's new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstopper,…
Restlessly creative, the great director " who has died aged 97 " had an unparalleled ability to conjure a gleaming theatrical image
Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre
Never mee…
As Mark Rylance returns to the West End stage as the rambunctious Rooster in Jez Butterworth's shaggy state-of-the-nation play, six writers consider its power and legacy
It was the play that…
The Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has the credits you'd expect for a fast-rising classical music star, and some others you might not.
The Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers' homes. It's one of several high-tech British projects pushi…
'Ralph Fiennes strode into the dressing room and said he loved the show " we booked him there and then. The whole thing was very kick-bollocks-scramble'
Sean Foley, co-writer and performer
I…
She grew up in an artistic dynasty and was once rejected for a part by her dad. Now the director is turning her life into an epic new project. She reflects on Chekhov, Shakespeare and Iggy P…
The groundbreaking director's new project, Arcadia, fills tents with poetry and music in Manchester. She talks about Covid and Brexit, becoming a mother and taking over Bath's Ustinov
A flic…
Bedevilled by lockdowns and brain-bending Covid protocols, the Shakespeare play about isolation, grief and fresh starts is finally being staged and emotions are running high. We join the dre…
After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings
Remember your first ev…
With auditions on Zoom, social distancing on stage and scenes that can be cut if an actor tests positive, Nine Lessons and Carols is a play for Covid times
In the near-empty Almeida theatre …
Pestilence was rife in the Bard's time, closing theatres and ravaging life. Did he write his bleak, desperate drama while self-isolating? We sift the evidence
While those of us stuck in sel…
He's played everything from an elf in Harry Potter to Truman Capote and a harassed coach driver. Now, Jones is taking on Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Just don't call it the role of a lifetime
Twen…
They defied the Stasi and sparked a revolution. Our writer reveals the pivotal role East Germany's dynamic theatre culture played in the fall of the GDR " and the collapse of European commun…
The RSC has finally turned its back on BP funding after actor Mark Rylance said it is what the Bard would have wanted. But as Simon Callow points out " the playwright was hardly a model of c…
Once the toast of Russia's avant garde, Serebennikov now faces a 10-year jail sentence. As his powerful, sexually charged play Outside is staged in Avignon, he vows he won't be silenced
On t…
To mark the Stratford playwright's birthday, Ophelia Lovibond, Paapa Essiedu, Jade Anouka, Roger Allam and John Kani discuss the roles they love best
The great thing about Shakespeare is tha…
Kenneth Branagh graduates from player to playwright this week for All is True, in which he plays an ailing Bard. But which big-screen Shakey is the greatest?Despite its hey-nonny-nonny reput…
Cate Blanchett has played queens, vagabonds and Bob Dylan. Now the double Oscar-winner is hitting the London stage in an avant garde work about sexual domination " and hinting at a farewell …
When Indhu Rubasingham turned the Tricycle theatre into the Kiln earlier this year, there were protests and passionate defences. Vicky Featherstone, Richard Eyre and Charles Saumarez Smith d…
A new work by Jeanie O'Hare distils four Shakespeare plays to retell the story of the Wars of the Roses, focusing on Margaret of Anjou, the formidable wife of Henry VIThe unmissable theatre …
