Brian Butler

It was only a matter of time before 1980s/90s TV copper Inspector Morse hit the stage, and now he’s arrived in a play by Alma Cullen, who was responsible for scripting some of the TV series' episodes. In this play within a play, we are watching a

What began as a bedtime story for his son by Rick Riordan, the Percy Jackson sequence of fantasy novels sold 180 million copies and so it was inevitable it would become a stage musical. Writers Joe Tracz (book) and Rob Rokicki (music and lyrics), clearly owe a debt of gratitude

“This entire town is a cesspool, darling. Beautifully lit, well-appointed, but a cesspool nonetheless.” Those opening lines directed straight at the audience by stage and screen icon Tallulah Bankhead set the scene for Michael McKeever’s dark, witty, searingly honest expose of the hypocrisy of golden age Hollywood. As the

It’s London, 1591. In an upstairs room over an inn rising star playwright William Shakespeare (Edward Bluemel), has enlisted the help of fading playwright Christopher Marlowe (Ncuti Gatwa) to write a sure-fire blockbuster play about Henry VI - or maybe three plays if it all goes well. They are