The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre: here, nothing is polite
Yaël Farber’s production, starring James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, summons up an energy that is raw and bloody.
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Why the government’s live events reinsurance scheme is too little, too late
The programme, which offers Covid insurance to live events, comes after more than half of this summer’s festivals have already been…
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Michael Sheen: Why the creative industries need to do more to offer others a writing chance
Unpaid internships and an increasingly London-centric industry are preventing people from lower-income backgrounds from entering the arts. I want to…
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The Royal Swedish Opera’s La Passion de Simone: a philosopher’s life
Kaija Saariaho’s opera, which premiered in 2006 in a staging by Peter Sellars, is now available to stream in a…
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What’s more important – the theatre industry, or the fishing industry?
In terms of employment and economic contributions, the UK's fishing sector is dwarfed by theatre.
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Glyndebourne in the pandemic proves that opera doesn’t need stuffy rituals
Watching The Magic Flute, I was unprepared for the emotion that would hit me at the curtain call.
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The final curtain call: How Covid-19 has left Britain’s theatres in crisis
Despite the government’s £1.57bn support package, theatres across the UK are being forced to make redundancies – or even to close…
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Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt is inseparable from its author’s biography
There is no separating the artist and the art in Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, which draws directly on his life as a…
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