Nearly 30 years after they first played the Olympia, James Dean Bradfield and his bandmates are defiant, life-affirming and ...

A Director's View,"  discusses her direction of plays by both master playwrights with host Richard Wolinsky. "Betrayal" by ...

With In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust expended seven volumes and thousands of pages in exploring history, society, and personal experience, through memory. You might say that with her book, ...

The poet’s 1935 verse drama has its eccentricities but the meticulous star plays Thomas Becket with a Shakespearean relish ...

Yet despite this, and the brilliant work of a strong ensemble led by Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan, the play still ...

A first class interpretation of Chekhov's classic play adaptation brings out the best in Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen ...

Marina di Marzo looks back at her younger self and the confusions of adolescence in Love in the Time of Fifth Grade. In a funny and warm show, she gives her personal story a quirky shape that ...

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Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, revived in a new adaptation by Conor McPherson, explores themes of tradition and finance as ...

Kristin Scott Thomas was born to play the wealthy, ailing matriarch at the centre of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ...

After a recent spate of pretty weird London Chekhovs - see Jamie Lloyd and Thomas Ostermeier’s Seagulls and the Donmar’s very ...