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Young Jean Lee wants to banish Disney from America's stages. The result is exciting and unnerving, writes Ariel Ramchandani ...  read more »

When "Ragtime" was first adapted for the stage, it was a runaway success. A new production just closed on Broadway, millions of dollars in debt. James C. Taylor explains what didn't work ...  read more »

Colin Firth is outstanding, as he shows in “A Single Man”, for which he has just won a Bafta. So why isn’t he at his best more often? Isabel Lloyd asks him ...  read more »

Edward Albee has been a force for the stage for around half a century. But while his plays endure, the man himself is a bit dated, Laura Parker writes ...  read more »

One day in 1958 Irving Wardle received a letter from Harold Pinter. It was the beginning of a bittersweet friendship between a star writer and a leading critic ...  read more »

To the outside world, it’s a festival, a castle, a university, a tin of shortbread and a drone of bagpipes. To Jackie Hunter, it’s home, and it’s more about coping with the weather ...  read more »

She’s been a media darling for 40 years—and a fine actress. As she graces the big screen in the newsroom thriller "State of Play", Irving Wardle (theatre) and Matthew Sweet (film) pick her star turns ...  read more »

Young aspiring actors are highly media literate. They've been raised on computers, games and a sense of entitlement to fame. Joanna Pitman considers what this means for  the stage ...  read more »

How do you create drama over what seems so far away? Just watch "The Contingency Plan", writes Robert Butler...  read more »

To the public, he was Reggie Perrin and Rigsby–and still is, long after his death, with repeats continuing and remakes planned. To Camilla Rossiter, he was just Dad ...  read more »