Shakespeare's Wars of the Roses is being staged without a single black actor. So what?
Trevor Nunn is staging Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses without a single black actor. So what, says Robert Gore-Langton
Would Betjeman recognise anything about today’s north Cornwall?
In a documentary filmed at the end of his life, Sir John Betjeman, who lived in the village of Trebetherick…
The birth of a barrel of cider
The fabulous October weather is now just a memory but it made for a golden, old-fashioned apple day down in…
A brown-noser's history of the Old Vic and National Theatre
The moment Waterloo Bridge was planned across the Thames, a new theatre to serve the transpontine coach trade was inevitable.…
I’m disappointed this director didn’t plunge the knife into Dustin Hoffman
At the age of 75, the theatre director Michael Rudman has got around to his memoirs, their title taken from…
Indiscretions from two veteran producers
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Duncan Weeldon and Paul Elliott about the good old days – and getting shafted
Julian Mitchell on Another Country: ‘I based it on my fury and anger and I wrote it fast and it flowed'
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Julian Mitchell about the painful roots of his hit play Another Country
The 'detestable, bombastic, egocentric' detective — Hercule Poirot lives on
Robert Gore-Langton on our love for fictional detectives — and especially Poirot
'You can't handle the truth!' — the greatest courtroom dramas of all time
As a new production of Twelve Angry Men opens in the West End, Robert Gore-Langton names his favourite courtroom dramas
Ta-ra, Dame Edna — Barry Humphries bids goodbye to his chattier half
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Barry Humphries, alter ego of the gigastar Dame Edna
Gregory Doran interview: 'I wanted some big hitters,' says the RSC's new supremo
Robert Gore-Langton meets Gregory Doran, new artistic director at the RSC
Tell me a story! Anne Fine, Amanda Mitichison, Terence Blacker and Keith Crossley-Holland on the joy - and importance - of reading aloud
Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books
