As he prepares for his first West End appearance in a straight play, Simon Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms, Rowan Atkinson reveals why he’s might be binning Mr Bean....

Regional theatre – the decade in review A spirit of resurgence mixed with ongoing uncertainty characterised the state of play in our regional theatres during the Noughties. F...

We’re left with five complete plays and one short film. Those five plays are rather unique in that, it’s not exactly that it’s a flawless body of work, that wouldn’t be rig...

Appeal of Belarusian theatre representatives to the world cultural community Representatives of the Belarusian theatre, who spoke out against the lawlessness and violence of the au...

Australia’s housewife gigastar is making her last appearance on British stages. Her creator Barry Humphries explains why. First published, Daily Telegraph, Oct 12, 2013. Barr...

The Man to follow Mendes The search is on to fill the top jobs at the Donmar and Almeida theatres. Profile of leading contender Michael Grandage. First published Daily Telegraph No...

Alan Bennett at 80: more than meets the eye First published in the Daily Telegraph, 9 May, 2014. A shape is now emerging from the diverse mass of Bennett’s writing…   ...

Sarah Kane’s notoriety over ‘Blasted’ eclipsed her talent as a playwright. Dominic Cavendish meets the woman behind the infamy. Big Issue, November 1997 If she is...

True dramas of the world’s bravest actors The Belarus Free Theatre talk about death threats at home and the significance of staging ‘King Lear’ at Shakespeare’s Gl...

Taken to tusk Simon McBurney’s work with Complicite has made him one of the world’s most respected theatre directors. Now, in The Elephant Vanishes, he adapts three sto...

The Events, David Greig’s acclaimed play about the aftermath of a massacre, has returned to its Norwegian source. What did its first-night audience make of it? First publishe...

James Graham’s deftness at dramatising post-war politics has earned him a smash hit with This House at the National. First published Dec 13, 2012, Daily Telegraph. What memories ...

Her master’s voice Beckett’s muse Billie Whitelaw makes a final return to his works. First published in the Daily Telegraph, June 23, 1999 Oh, is that Nick Cave?”...

Ken Dodd: Merseyside’s professor of mirth Interview to coincide with the start of Liverpool’s year as Capital of Culture. First published in the Daily Telegraph, 05 Ja...

Punchdrunk: plunge into a world of extraordinary theatre Punchdrunk, pioneers of the ‘immersive theatre’ phenomenon, are back with their biggest show yet: The Drowned M...

From the sublime to the ridicule Ali G says he owes his success to a deadpan French drama guru. Dominic Cavendish meets Philippe Gaulier, master of the put-down. Published in the D...

George Orwell: A Life in Letters, Harvill Secker, rrp £20 I didn’t expect to well up with tears reading Orwell: A Life in Letters – but several times, against the grain o...

I am drawn like a moth to a flame to mystery Mark Rylance plays the part of an opinionated eccentric in his latest role. It suits him down to the ground. First published in the Dai...

Interrogation; by Dominic Cavendish. First performed at Theatre503 as part of its ‘Is It Getting Cold In Here?’  season A man, never named, enters the room. The man i...

Under-exposed, overtired and over here. First published in the Independent, May 26, 1995.  Get this. There’s this cat who is the original angel-headed hipster: a New York h...

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....

The show we’ll all soon be watching The satirical TV sketch show Little Britain looks set to repeat the extraordinary success of The Office. Its creators, David Walliams and ...

Aileen Gonsalves, who founded Butterfly Theatre Company and is the creator of the Gonsalves Method – specialising “in immersive theatre with a focus on truthful, authentic and ...

Interview with writer Gillian Slovo and director Nicolas Kent about their attempt to make sense of the mayhem of late summer 2011: The Riots. First published 08 Nov 2011, Daily ...

Timon of Athens, National’s Olivier Theatre, review Russell Beale gives a must-see turn, as director Nicholas Hytner seizes the disillusioned day and lands Timon of Athens pe...

They’re the key to what is possible As Theatre de Complicite turns 20, Dominic Cavendish asks directors their views on a company that has changed the rules of theatre. Publis...

A hardboiled Jacobean drama – with children Sex, infidelity, social discord. Four hundred years ago, child actors tackled these themes in John Marston’s ‘The Malcontent�...

The long voyage of Sir Tom Tom Stoppard spent four years researching his new trilogy – yet finished it in a last-minute rush. As his 65th birthday looms, the playwright talks...