Features

"If they'd had Twitter, then the Paris Commune may have won"

Friday, 21 October 2011

Genevieve Girling, director of The Days of the Commune at the White Bear Theatre, discusses riots, revolutions, and the relevance of Brecht in the Twitter age.

The Diary: Primate Cinema; J M Synge; New Sensations exhibition; Walter Hugo; Ryo Arai

Friday, 14 October 2011

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Jez Butterworth: The man who wrote a stage sensation

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

As Jez Butterworth's searing Jerusalem returns to the West End, the playwright tells Claire Allfree about its genesis in the darker secrets of the English countryside

Heads Up: Hamlet

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Tony B or not Tony B – Sheen shifts from Blair to Bard

The Diary: Joseph Fiennes; War Horse; Drive; Hyo Myoung Kim; Haidee Becker

Friday, 7 October 2011

Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre is transformed into a Proustian fin de siècle Paris salon

Friday, 7 October 2011

It's for anyone who's interested in the future," says Stewart Laing of his immersive experiment The Salon Project. So why does the project hark back to the past, and why will the Traverse Theatre be transformed into a Proustian fin de siècle Paris salon and the audience required to wear pre-supplied period dress? "It pulls in different directions and I'm quite comfortable with that," he says. "I didn't want to create a heritage project, something you could do in a National Trust location."

Figaro: A Marriage made in heaven

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Fiona Shaw is bringing her theatrical nous to Mozart's most famous opera. It could make for the most thrilling Figaro in years, says Jessica Duchen

Marat/Sade: The play that began a stage revolution

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Peter Brook's radical Marat/Sade shocked audiences in the Sixties. The RSC's new production will also cause tremors, says Michael Coveney

Court hearings, walkouts, a riot – these were the plays that shocked

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Edward Bond's notorious 'Saved', in which a baby is stoned to death, is about to get its first staging in London for 25 years. Here, Holly Williams recalls the most controversial dramas of the past five decades

Twilight star finds a major new role

Friday, 30 September 2011

The Twilight actor Charlie Bewley, 30, makes his stage debut with his sister.