George Bernard Shaw ominously subtitled his 1910 play Misalliance as a “debate in one sitting”, preparing us for a wordy intellectual platform of ideas lacking
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George Bernard Shaw ominously subtitled his 1910 play Misalliance as a “debate in one sitting”, preparing us for a wordy intellectual platform of ideas lacking
Read moreDaisy Pulls It Off ran for three years in the West End (and was one of the first shows I ever saw at the theatre) so
Read morePeter Pan is well established as a Christmas favourite but creator JM Barrie explored alternate worlds in another much lesser-known play, Dear Brutus. First performed
Read moreNow best-known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome was once also famous for a major West End and Broadway
Read moreIbsen’s The Lady from the Sea is given a fresh new canvas in Elinor Cook’s excellent adaptation for the Donmar Warehouse. The mountains of west Norway
Read moreMark Ludmon finds out how researchers, actors and directors are bringing back little-known Elizabethan plays On a winter’s day in London in 1582, the court
Read moreMark Ludmon reports for BritishTheatre.com on Audra McDonald’s “long journey” to playing Billie Holiday on stage I fell in love with the voice of Audra
Read moreMark Ludmon reports for Bar magazine on the new-look bar and café at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London Dating back to 1932, Regent’s
Read moreThe Understudy has opened as part of the National Theatre’s transformation of its drinking and dining, reports Mark Ludmon for Bar magazine From front of
Read moreMark Ludmon reports on a “new generation of theatre bars” where cocktails and craft beers play a major role Traditionally, theatre bars have been just
Read moreDriving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry Wyndham’s Theatre, London It is often forgotten that the award-winning 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy started life as a
Read moreThe premise of Mike Bartlett’s latest play, 13, is to present a group of disparate, apparently unconnected people across London who are troubled by an
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