Dean Cain heads up a dramatic retelling of the controversial anti-Trump FBI texts aimed at a rightwing audience It was not your typical Broadway or West End crowd. On Thursday night, audienc…
In his new role as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, the National Theatre and RSC star talks about swapping Brexit for Trump As Donald Trump surged towar…
In the new show Kleptocracy, a House of Cards writer takes us back to a pivotal moment in history and shines a light on the Russian president's interior lifeThere is a bear in the woods. Vla…
In retelling the story of students dismantling a colonialist statue in Cape Town, a vibrant dance-filled production carries prescience for contemporary America"Rhodes was suspended in the ai…
Hit musical, which vice-president was booed at during a 2016 performance, opened at Kennedy Center for three-month runThe mega-hit musical Hamilton made a triumphant debut in Washington on T…
Composer and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld has created a multimedia event to pay tribute to his father's journey in AuschwitzStories of the Holocaust have been told in memoirs, novels and films.…
The actor and writer has brought Noura to the Washington stage and believes that the political climate in Iraq has predicted the current state of the USA decade ago, Ni Qasey, an Iraqi who i…
The British playwright, who works as the artistic director of the Baltimore Center Stage theatre, talks about the role of art in troubled times like theseAs a Briton who has lived in America…
The Tony-winning director talks about bringing Fun Home to Washington on the doorstep of a president whose cabinet threatens to roll back LGBT rightsDonald Trump has proved a gift to TV sati…
As Roe, a stage production centered on the landmark abortion case of the 1970s, hits Washington DC, playwright Lisa Loomer discusses its presicenceIn a normal election year, without the doze…
She's worked on stage with Edward Albee, befriended Maggie Smith and, in Body Heat, played one of the definitive screen femme fatales. Now Kathleen Turner is turning her thoughts to bereavem…
The musical tells the story of travellers grounded in the remote Canadian town of Gander on 9/11 " yet despite the sensitive subject matter, it has received huge ovations and is bound for Br…
Secretary of state for whom all the world's a stage writes essay for British Council, praising heroine's diplomatic skills and the restorative effect of comedyPoliticians around the world mi…
A leading genealogist has traced the family tree of the creator and star of Hamilton, discovering a forbidden interracial relationship and flight to MexicoHe has dazzled audiences with his v…
His play An Octoroon has been called the most eloquent drama about race this decade " but, says the playwright, his work is really about the human conditionIt started when he was about 13. B…
The 1916 Irish rebellion against British rule that in six days left 485 people dead is the cue for a festival of Irish arts and culture in WashingtonWhile on the election campaign trail for …
Paul Watson's photo of a US soldier's corpse being desecrated by a mob in Somalia won him the Pultizer " but resulted in decades of trauma explored in a new play called The Body of an Americ…
The legendary lyricist and director has had the opposite of a hard-knock life in theatre, starting in West Side Story and writing one of the biggest musicalsAmerica's National Theatre in Was…
Taken from interviews with residents of America's poorest city, the Pulitzer-winning playwright's Sweat has new resonance in the era of Trump and SandersWhen playwright Lynn Nottage began wo…