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It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

Blackadder meets feminism in April De Angelis tonally uneven but blisteringly funny play about Sarah Siddons which features a voltage performance…

Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson shine as dysfunctional parents in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, David Morrissey brings a bold new register to Pinter, and April De Angelis takes on Sarah Siddons

Rachael Stirling is enthralling to watch in entertaining comedy set backstage at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

There are shades of Blackadder in April De Angelis’s play about the great tragedian of 18th-century British theatre

April De Angelis’ backstage comedy runs until 27 April

April De Angelis comedy, to be premiered in Hampstead, explores life of actor at a time when married women were ‘legally dead’

A new fundraising campaign has also been launched

Spring 2024 will see four world premieres, one UK premiere, and one English language premiere by acclaimed writers including April De Angelis, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson alongside rising playwrights Sarah Power and Richard Molloy.

It is hard to describe Woman In Mind at the Chichester Festival Theatre. It’s a comedy, and from the pen of Alan Ayckbourn one-liners ripple through it, at times it borders on farce but the real core is that it is a tragedy.