The women of the Bacchae will not be ignored

Fierce and unstoppable, the Bacchae are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core - and liberate its women.

But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power a...

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from the dad of his fiancée.

But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who has been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers, ...

Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women.

This is a story ab...

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

But nothing lasts forever, and long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is l...

Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane Eyre is as inspiring as ever.

What is Jane Eyre about?

The production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. Facing obstacles, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of a bitter betrayal before taking th...

Arthur Miller’s gripping parable of power and its abuse returns in an urgent new staging by director Lyndsey Turner (Under Milk Wood, Top Girls), featuring Erin Doherty (The Crown, Adolescence, A Thousand Blows).

What is The Crucible about?

Speak of the devil and he appears.

A witch hunt is be...

Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay.

What is Romeo and Juliet about?

Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they cha...