After post-show Q&As for Tonight with Donnie Darko, Vincent River, Angry and Tender Napalm, I'm delighted to be invited to chair another discussion with Philip Ridley, one of the UK's greatest and most innovative living playwrights. This time for the live stage premiere of his online lockdown hit The Poltergeist.
Plays diary: Heisenberg, 31 Hours, All the Little Lights
Clockwise from top left: 31 Hours, Heisenberg and All the Little Lights. I
My theatre diary: Plays 4000 Days, Hangmen, The Dazzle, Jane Wenham, The Long Road South
I'm well overdue for a theatre diary, aren't I? So here goes with a quick one
My theatre diary: ‘New’ plays The First Man, Ticking, Teddy Ferrara, Eventide
The new play's the thing, even when it's very old.... Here are four I've seen over
INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’
Playwright Barney Norris has followed his award-winning debut Visitors with Eventide, which is now running at London's
INTERVIEW (pt1): Eventide’s Barney Norris on monoculture, Thomas Hardy and Salisbury dreams
Barney Norris with Eventide cast member Ellie Piercy in rehearsals I've been looking
Photos and podcast: The making of new British musical The House of Mirrors and Hearts
The adage – usually attributed to Sondheim – that “musicals aren’t written, they’re rewritten” was central to the post-show discussion that I hosted last night at London's Arcola Theatre.
As Good a Time as Any for … ‘Women of a Certain Age’ as people not Product
The cast of As Good a Time as Any at London's Print Room: Sharlene
My theatre diary: Three must-see new plays Clarion, Level Playing Field, Oppenheimer
Joe Layton and Jojo Macari in Jonathan Guy Lewis' A Level Playing Field at
Press pass: All you need to know about how Clarion dishes the dirt on the tabloids
Greg Hicks and Peter Bourke in Mark Jagasia's Clarion at the Arcola Theatre. ©