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Anna Karenina

Ben Reiss 19/05/2023

Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian...

Ben Reiss 17/04/2022

In a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong – 132 women, men, and children perished in chains in the Caribbean sea in...

To date, the most popular Italian literary text to be translated worldwide is not by Dante, Boccaccio or Petrarch, but...

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a play which has had audiences speak about for centuries since its first performance in...

Jo Clifford’s vital re-envisioning of The Taming of the Shrew examines the darker underbelly of current explorations of gender and...

When Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was first performed in Paris in 1913, the score and choreography were so controversial...

Faithful Ruslan marks the centenary of the Russian revolution. To celebrate this occasion, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre placed centre stage Stalin’s...

From 1914 to 1917, the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew went on an expedition to cross the Antarctic on board the Endurance.

In the neon-lit Club of the Unloved, the ‘Love-Spotters’ dream of their membership expiry, and of the day they’ll finally be allowed in

After peaking around the year 1998, Jake’s (Andy Clark) musical career is deep in the trough....