It’s natural that your reactions to shows are filtered through the prism of the current social and political climate. And savvy theatres, of course, seek to judge the mood and programme accordingly.
Plays diary: What Shadows, Ink, The Unknown Island, Lucy Light, The Swallow
Clockwise from top left: What Shadows, Lucy Light, The Swallow, Ink and The Unknown
My theatre diary: West End Live, Lady Day, Hamlet and Quentin Dentin
My theatre diary w/c Sunday 25 June 2017: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar &
Take two: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Travesties, plus future fantasy casting
Doubling up with Stoppard: Joshua McGuire & Daniel Radcliffe in R&G, Freddie Fox &
Popular vs personal: How did my own choices fare against the #AlsoRecognised winners?
The full list of 2015 #AlsoRecognised winners were announced on 27 April at www.mytheatremates.com
Critics’ Circle winners contradict Standard: any bets on Oliviers?
Ivo van Hove's A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic wins two
Podcast: AYULTP looks back on #theatre2014 discoveries including the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The candelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe opened its doors in January 2014
Charting The Stage 100: Who are theatre’s biggest influencers and why?
In this new year gorgefest of lists, The Stage's annually compiled Stage 100 of the
My theatre diary: King Charles III, True West, Toast, Eye of a Needle and Breeders
Knowing that my theatregoing – and overall mental and emotional bandwidth – would be going
Mr Burns, Marmite and memory
Apocalypse survivors perform an episode of The Simpsons in Mr Burns I haven’t