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As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic

And we’re back. Founded in 1955, the Evening Standard Theatre Awards are the UK’s oldest dramatic accolades, an annual recognition by London’s newspaper of the excellence of London’s theatre. Across seven decades, the awards honoured the great and the good both on and off stage in acting, writing, musical performance,…

A virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints

EVER since it was founded by the late, great David MacLennan back in 2004, the lunchtime theatre A Play, A Pie And A Pint (PPP) has been…

The BBC overcomes its objection to Attenborough’s teeth, the flower pot men strike gibberish gold, Blue Peter sets sail, Samuel Beckett is silenced – and a ‘dee jay’ plays some pop

Shomit Dutta’s play imagines the two cricket-obsessed Nobel prize winners as waiting batsmen in an enjoyable spin on Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter

Beckett, Rumi and first-world-war prisoners are referenced in Heiner Goebbels’ diverse score that incorporates chanting, jazz-rock, rhythmic dislocations and delicate solos

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket

The two titans of modern drama were both cricket obsessives. What if they had faced the fast bowlers together? Playwright Shomit Dutta explains why he made it happen – with darkly comic drama Stumped

It's set to be released in October 2022