Now 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
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Review: The Lady from the Sea, Donmar Warehouse, London
Ibsen’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
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Feature: The Globe brings to life plays before Shakespeare
Mark 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
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Feature: Audra McDonald’s ‘long journey’ to playing Lady Day
Mark 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
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Feature: New look at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Mark 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
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Feature: The National Theatre’s new bar, The Understudy
The 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
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Feature: The ‘new generation’ of theatre bars
Mark Ludmon reports on a “new generation of theatre bars” where cocktails and craft beers play a major role Traditionally, theatre bars have been just
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Review: Driving Miss Daisy, Wyndham’s Theatre, London
Driving 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
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Review: 13, National Theatre, London
The 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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Review: Death and the Maiden, Harold Pinter Theatre, London
The issues tackled in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden are as relevant today as they were when the play was first produced over 20
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Review: The Veil, National Theatre, London
Conor McPherson is best known for his plays about Irish life such as The Weir but, for The Veil, he has gone back to 1822
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Review: Broken Glass, Vaudeville Theatre, London
Broken Glass was one of Arthur Miller’s last plays, completed in 1994 when he was in his late 70s, but he went back to 1938
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