There’s always something magical about the first day of the summer at Chester. A little over a week ago, we were all gathered in the Chester Town Hall for the first rehearsal of Animals Out of Paper, by Rajiv Joseph....

As always, our London week has flown by and we found ourselves Saturday morning at our last talkback — for SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Oliver Goldsmith’s warm-hearted comedy represented a radical departure when it was first produced in 1733. The...

The Friday morning talkback was very lively as befits the antic, vivid and inventive production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM we had seen the night before at the Lyric Hammersmith. Once again the creative energy came from a collective —...