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David Walliams on getting the RSC’s ‘stamp of approval’ with The Boy in the Dress musical

By |2020-01-08T10:14:50+00:0024 October 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

During rehearsals for The Boy in the Dress, I spoke to David Walliams about his inspiration for the original story, his burgeoning career as a children’s writer and how he feels having his work adapted by the RSC.

Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

By |2020-01-25T23:23:40+00:0029 April 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I had a fabulous time last week in Stratford-upon-Avon seeing Justin Audibert’s new re-gendered production of Shakespeare’s early “battle of the sexes” comedy The Taming of the Shrew (1591), set in a parallel Elizabethan universe where women are in charge.

What if every day were #Shakespeare400 and London Marathon?

By |2020-03-27T12:52:39+00:0024 April 2016|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Complete Walk along the Thames to Shakespeare's Globe on 24 April 2016. ©

Curse of the character actor? Antony Sher doubted he could play Falstaff

By |2020-03-27T13:07:24+00:0013 May 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As captured by Antony Sher, the artist: Other great character acting from Meryl Streep in

My theatre diary: Three must-see new plays Clarion, Level Playing Field, Oppenheimer

By |2020-03-27T13:07:52+00:0030 April 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Joe Layton and Jojo Macari in Jonathan Guy Lewis' A Level Playing Field at

Charting The Stage 100: Who are theatre’s biggest influencers and why?

By |2020-03-27T13:14:56+00:002 January 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In this new year gorgefest of lists, The Stage's annually compiled Stage 100 of the

From famine to feast: My ever-growing theatre to-see list

By |2020-03-27T13:20:45+00:0030 May 2014|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Between my father’s illness, coursework and a month in Mallorca (sigh), I was out of

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