The rescue package for British culture, agreed on Sunday evening, amounted to ÂŁ1.57bn, far greater than many had anticipated. After many months, the Treasury announced
“This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the audiences Shakespeare would have written for, I think of the
In recent years the orthodoxy that Shakespeare can only be truly appreciated on stage has become widespread. But, as with many of our habits and assumptions,
A poll the other day revealed that more than nine out of ten members of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn “party within a party” in Labour, believe
Educating Rita, Willy Russell’s great, wise play about the value of education and class, is now 40 years old. Somehow, this anniversary seems momentous, in
Sixteen year-old Alice loves three things in this world: roast potatoes, fit Jamie from Maths, and her iPhone. Two of these three combine in a
For Arthur Miller, there were two types of theatre, which he labelled as “Majority” and “Other”. For the Majority, theatre was a form of entertainment,
In the largely disappointing Rufus Norris regime at the National, the premiere of Hansard was unexpected. A one-act, 90-minute play, set in the Eighties, about
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