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Playwright calls for return to theatre’s founding vision and to stop ‘angling for West End’

The actors will share the stage for the first time in George Bernard’s Shaw’s drama about ‘the role of women in society’

The star said he applied for drama school to impress a girl.

With Gladiator II thrusting into cinematic arenas next month, we hand out laurels to the greatest sword-and-sandal movies of them all

If she cries or struggles, we say ‘holiday!’ and the sacred word magically dispels the arduous longueurs of car travel

Opera North brings shimmering music to this gorgeous and crisply choreographed co-production, which preserves Shaw’s critique of the British class system

Editorial: The compelling India-England series highlights the appeal of long-form cricket. Pity so few people can see it

Welcome to London's Clubland, where men-only rules and strict dress codes still draw top politicians

George Bernard Shaw famously observed that “it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.” That was in the preface to Pygmalion, whose hero, Professor Higgins, was a phoneticist who could identify which bit of London any individual Cockney came from —…