As Duncan Macmillan's celebration of the little things in life lights up the Edinburgh fringe, 10 years after its debut, the actors who have helped make it a hit all over the world explain i…
The Norwegian theatremaker talks about succeeding Ivo van Hove as artistic director of one of the influential Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and staging classic plays as rock concerts When…
Audiences are finding sharp resonance and emotional comfort in Patrik Lazić's moving and funny play Our Son, about topics still sensitive in the Balkans The hurling of a salad bowl to th…
The writer, who took her life 25 years ago this month, wrote five searing dramas that took in everything from despair to love, from mutilation to cannibalism. What was it like to direct or s…
Aimée Kelly will star in adaptation of the 2020 novel about an artist who takes explicit photographs of young men Eliza Clark's 2020 debut novel Boy Parts, a brutal artworld satire-cum-thri…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's uncouth one-woman show is seen as the epitome of festival success. But 10 years on, we speak to three fringe performers battling to escape its long shadow Ten years ag…
A new theatre show by Helgard Haug weaves together the tragedy of the 2014 flight disaster with the slow decline of her parent. She explains how the two stories came together On 8 March 2014…
Her military painting was such a sensation that it was bought by Queen Victoria. A new play explores Elizabeth Southerden Thompson's trailblazing art, her privilege " and the prejudice she f…
The New Diorama in London is placing bets on small troupes, inviting them onto its stage and giving them help to thrive. With two shows now in the West End, its gambles are paying off.
Using local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell's A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate crisis and an experiment in sustainability Ka…
SpitLip's award-winning show, based on an audacious episode of wartime espionage, takes over from The Woman in Black at the Fortune theatre 'It feels completely unbelievable. And, also, like…
It was her breakout role " and now the actor is starring once more in Gary Owen's Iphigenia in Splott, a play that resonates with her personally and politically 'It feels even more urgent no…
Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government's days are numbered …
Virtual reality and live performance combine in a show that asks audiences to consider if political violence is ever justifiable In a series of vaults adjacent to the Tower of London that us…
Founded in 2015, Theatre Arts Group (TAG) is an independent theatre company in Romania that trains and supports emerging artists. Artistic director Gabriela Dumitru talks about international…
Teatri Oda, Prishtina (part of the Kosovo Theatre Showcase) There are more people in the world who are either functionally bilingual or multilingual than those who are monolingual. While man…
It was a play that gave us the word "robot" " and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh " and cry? A figure sits alone on stage, dres…
He's written horrors, thrillers and sci-fi odysseys. As his new play about Victorian spiritualism opens, the dramatist explains why no territory is out of bounds for theatre, not even Pluto …
Playwright Al Smith discusses his continent-hopping new work about the climate crisis, inspired by rusting locomotives and the Lithium Triangle in the Andes There was a worry that when theat…
Igor Memic's award-winning drama Old Bridge, staged at the Bush theatre in London, charts teenage romance at a time 'when the world stopped spinning' The bridge in the middle of Mostar is th…
After lockdown made collective mourning impossible, two new productions are remembering lost loved ones " and making a case for theatre's social use One of the many things that lockdown depr…
Journalist turned playwright Joseph Charlton on how the Anna Sorokin case inspired his play about identity and power, starring Emma Corrin One night, while out with friends in London and loo…
Faced with indoor restrictions, theatres are venturing outside, and creating thrilling work in the process. Brollies at the ready! Modern Toss on the summer of culture to come This summer, w…
While many writers have created troubling dystopian visions, few plays have imagined better futures. But the act of theatre itself can embrace utopianism When the UK entered its first lockdo…
Undeterred by Covid, theatre-makers are beaming innovative plays into people's homes via Zoom, WhatsApp and Minecraft Since mid-March, theatre-makers have been faced with a dilemma: how do …