Theater

Past lives

How playwrights resolve the problem of backstory

Another way is to refuse it altogether. Which may be how you arrive at absurd drama

Craig Raine

Doomers looks at what AI means for the future

Someone — I forget who — suggested the idea of my play as a joke, and I thought it was a good one

Matthew Gasda

What will Elton John learn from Tammy Faye’s flop on Broadway?

Its failure mirrors that of American Psycho

Alexander Larman

The Jedermann, the myth, the legend

Adapting Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play in Salzburg

Robert Carsen

Theater

A new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is enrapturing and impressive

The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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