How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle

Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations

Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?

A prize-winning old fraud

This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight

It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal

What is the direction of theatre for the next season?

Over these past months, one has lost count of the number of humble showbiz folk selflessly going to the trouble of taking photos/videos of themselves being jabbed

Alexander Larman writes an open letter to the artistic directors of theatres

Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view