25 years after its Scottish premiere, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off – by Scotland’s National Poet Liz Lochhead – gets its first full London season in Islington this summer. The play, exploring the rivalry and mutual fascination between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, is a murky tale of political [...]

Impressario Bill Kenwright’s major new production of The Governess opens at the Theatre Royal, Windsor later this month. Written by British dramatist Patrick Hamilton, this forgotten classic was unearthed by theatre critic-turned-playwright Nicholas de Jongh at the British Library. Kenwright’s production stars Jenny Seagrove (Judge John Deed, The Country Girl), Peter Bowles (To The Manor [...]

The announcement from the BBC that, for the first time, the Last Night of the Proms will have a female conductor has been unanimously welcomed. While ‘extraordinarily proud’ to be asked to lead this quintessentially British occasion, Marin Alsop has also expressed sadness that ‘it’s 2013 and there can still be firsts for women’. Alsop’s [...]