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
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?
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
As captured by Antony Sher, the artist: Other great character acting from Meryl Streep in
Destroyer of Worlds: A closing speech to end all closing speeches?
John Heffernan takes the title role in Tom Morton-Smith's Oppenheimer, RSC at the Vaudeville
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
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
From famine to feast: My ever-growing theatre to-see list
Between my father’s illness, coursework and a month in Mallorca (sigh), I was out of
What did I miss? Part One: Tons of transfers
The National Theatre of Scotland's vamp-fest Let the Right One In What an