The British performing arts - and theatre in particular - are under fire for attracting predominantly white, middle-class audiences. Is this criticism fair?

1984 Nottingham Playhouse When they come for you – as they must if you commit a thought-crime, which you are bound to do – they don’t just want to beat, torture and kill you....

“We could make a star on the surface of the Earth”. Time and again in this triumphantly assured drama about the American physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his supervision o...