With plays such as Bombay Dreams and The Phantom of the Opera successfully hitting the stage in recent years, the emergence of production groups in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi has seen a rise of ...

Thanks, Shakespeare! Let's talk about Ben Jonson, revenge tragedies, and court masques. This week on Crash Course Theater, Shakespeare is dead. Long live Shakespeare. Well, long live English theater, ...

In the 1600s, English theater had to go into hiding, from PURITANS. Enter: WOMEN. In the 17th century, English theater had to go into hiding, from PURITANS. Let's take a look at how the English Civil ...

Natasha is international editor for The Stage. She co-founded Exeunt magazine and regularly writes for the Guardian and the BBC. From established playhouses to pop-up companies, English-speaking ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has to be considered a very gracious houseguest. Not only has this English troupe arrived in New York to show off five of its productions with its own actors and costumes ...

A play so powerful, it became a verb. While snow falls gently over Victorian London, Bella Manningham is slowly losing her grip on reality. Strange noises haunt her nights. Paintings vanish. Her keys ...

Is language a deciding factor for the theatre audience in the city? Or is the branding of English theatre as niche going against its acceptablity by a majority? Here’s the front-row view to all that’s ...