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Soho Theatre announces the opening of its Verity Bargate Award submissions on April 11. The winning play will receive workshops and readings in India and USA for the first time in the award's history.
Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold
This season the Irish Repertory Company is celebrating the work of the great Ulster dramatist Brian Friel. It has been staging, for instance, Friel...
Michael Blakemore, the Australian-born director, who has died aged 95, made his name in London with his premieres of plays by Peter Nichols; he cemented his reputation by staging the majority of plays by Michael Frayn and – in a long-lived career that spanned half a century – became identified as a director with a meticulous eye, a potent feel for the theatrical and a sure touch in the commercial sector.
David Wood is an actor, playwright, composer, theatre producer and director, author and magician. He began acting and writing at Oxford University in the sixties.