Jasmin Gleeson performs the piece, telling the story of Shirley, an Irish-born writing prodigy, tasked with penning a horror ...

A couple of weeks ago, The Lowry staged By Royal Appointment, a no-warts-at-all interpretation of the life of the late Queen ...

Luckily for the hapless thespians, Rick (Toby Thompson), a new addition to the troupe, has a mind for writing stories and a ...

Beginnings are important: where you start a story, particularly one which defies chronological style. In the case of Perfect ...

Romantasy! The craze for this particular blend of pulp fantasy and smutty romance has been on the soar of popularity for the ...

The writer, Jim Steinman, said a version of the Peter Pan story inspired some of the songs on the Bat Out of Hell album, and ...

Deathtrap is the story of Sidney Bruhl, a playwright whose last success was 18 years ago. When one of his students, Clifford ...

Festivals in Ilkley, Durham and Whitby will feature events with Alan Ayckbourn, Hugh Bonneville, Miriam Margolyes, Alan ...

Birmingham’s Old Joint Stock Theatre is to use its biggest ever cast—16 performers—when it stages the musical Bonnie and ...

Emilie Robson, winner of last year’s prize for her play Dogs On The Metro, said, “winning the North East Playwriting prize ...

Oldham-based Dare to Know Theatre has created the Dare to Create: Oldham Arts Festival in which 95% of the artists are from ...

The play follows Nancy looking back on her memories of the late Hume wistfully and explaining how she, a young girl, daughter ...