As a playwright who has spent a lifetime crafting optimistic, muscular comedies like Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo, I now find myself in the company of Agatha Christie’s most beloved crime-solver, Hercule Poirot.
When we talk about representation in the arts, one experience that remains almost invisible in mainstream storytelling is what it’s like to have a parent in prison.
This summer I found myself producing and writing two shows at the same time, in two different countries.
Few families have captured the English imagination quite like the Mitfords.
I’ve always been told how beautiful the Ulrey Performing Arts Center on the Harding University campus was, but I finally saw it for myself when I attended Searcy Summer Dinner Theatre’s production of Noises Off, which has one more weekend coming up August 21–23.
It’s no secret that the British theatre industry has been going through a tough period recently.
The Pitchfork Disney will mark the fifth collaboration between myself and Philip Ridley, including our production of Leaves of Glass, and Copper Beeches - a world premiere of Phil’s newest play.
There’s something reassuring about stepping into a show that is already a success.
How long does it take to develop a play before it's ready for an audience? At the end of July my first play A Manchester Anthem will begin it's run at The Hope Mill Theatre, finally being performed in the city it's named after, before transferring to London in August.
Cirkus Summarum har fået ny cirkusdirektør og Helga vil have Summarum med i Cirkuseliten.
Based on the 2010 movie, Burlesque The Musical makes its London debut this month.
August 2025 marks the 20th edition of the Camden Fringe.
I’m Fifi Garfield and I’m an actor.
Le Nozze di Figaro is a piece I’ve been living with as long as I can remember.
Someone once told me writing a musical with an original story would be like climbing Everest.
It is without doubt that the plays that we attribute to Shakespeare are genius.
Horror is one of my favourite genres, and one of cinema’s most profitable genres, but it’s still rarely attempted on stage.
Creating Conversations After Sex was a raw, intimate, and often challenging process—much like the show itself.
Since the earliest times, theatre that speaks to the state of the nation has always been a cultural mainstay, and plays that speak to the practise of politics seem to have enduring popularity – from David Hare’s The Absence of War to Alistair Beaton’s Feelgood, along with the works of Mike Bar
I grew up in a small northern town—now known to the world as the real Happy Valley.
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