‘Sprinkled with stardust’: Stoke-on-Trent’s mythic UFO landing comes to the stage
Something Rotten! is a riotous Shakespeare musical ripe for the West End
‘My first play was terrible!’ Alan Ayckbourn on his dazzling career – and writing his 90th play
‘We need to be seen’: Nadia Nadarajah on portraying Shakespeare’s greatest heroines – as a deaf actor
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No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC
Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
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