Theatre
Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?
Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?
Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson created The Jungle – a play following the lives of people in the Calais Jungle migrant camp and Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian refugee who crossed the world. Their new play – which features John Prescott, Angela Merkel and Al Gore – looks at the 1997 Kyoto agreement and asks whether the groundbreaking environmental agreement offers hope for the future of the planet and politics
Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism
Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism
As Bradley Riches takes to the stage in Babies, he’s found time to sit down with Big Issue to talk sexuality, neurodiversity, and how embracing both has helped him to understand himself
Maggie & Me author Damian Barr: ‘Today’s Tories are far beyond Thatcher’s darkest dreams’
Maggie & Me author Damian Barr: ‘Today’s Tories are far beyond Thatcher’s darkest dreams’
Today’s crop of Tories are in territory their prime matriarch would fail to comprehend, argues Maggie & Me author Damian Barr
‘Whose voices have the right to be heard?’: Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades
‘Whose voices have the right to be heard?’: Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades
Liz Carr: ‘I was told all the time I wouldn’t live to be old – and I believed it’
Liz Carr: ‘I was told all the time I wouldn’t live to be old – and I believed it’
Artist Rhiannon Faith: ‘I refuse to live in a society where someone feels so alone they lose hope’
Artist Rhiannon Faith: ‘I refuse to live in a society where someone feels so alone they lose hope’
New play Capital! explores Edinburgh’s financial history through eyes of Big Issue vendor
New play Capital! explores Edinburgh’s financial history through eyes of Big Issue vendor
Hamilton tour review – an urgent production as America needs heroes to rise up
Hamilton tour review – an urgent production as America needs heroes to rise up
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical review – nostalgia never felt so wicked
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical review – nostalgia never felt so wicked
Christopher Eccleston: Scrooge could be any one of those Tory ministers round the cabinet table
Christopher Eccleston: Scrooge could be any one of those Tory ministers round the cabinet table
The Wizard of Booze: How a pantomime is helping people overcoming addiction this Christmas
The Wizard of Booze: How a pantomime is helping people overcoming addiction this Christmas
Scene & Heard: The wild and wacky theatre project where kids write the plays
Scene & Heard: The wild and wacky theatre project where kids write the plays
How a groundbreaking theatre project is teaching prisoners there’s more to life than crime
How a groundbreaking theatre project is teaching prisoners there’s more to life than crime
Cowbois: This ‘big queer Western’ is subverting macho tropes and celebrating gender outlaws
Cowbois: This ‘big queer Western’ is subverting macho tropes and celebrating gender outlaws
It’s a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic
It’s a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic
Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest
Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest
This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale
This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale
‘I exist as two people’: Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity
‘I exist as two people’: Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity
The story of the world’s first drag ABBA tribute band
The story of the world’s first drag ABBA tribute band
‘I criticise Israel because I love it, not because I hate it’
‘I criticise Israel because I love it, not because I hate it’
Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage
Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage
Rocky Horror at 50: ‘A place for the marginalised’
Rocky Horror at 50: ‘A place for the marginalised’
‘I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up’
‘I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up’
As ‘I, Daniel Blake’ hits the stage, here’s why it’s needed more than ever
As ‘I, Daniel Blake’ hits the stage, here’s why it’s needed more than ever
Dixon and Daughters: Vital National Theatre production shows how trauma can echo through generations of women
