All white on the night
Trevor Nunn is staging Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses without a single black actor. So what, says Robert Gore-Langton
North Cornwall
In a documentary filmed at the end of his life, Sir John Betjeman, who lived in the village of Trebetherick…
Cider-making
The fabulous October weather is now just a memory but it made for a golden, old-fashioned apple day down in…
Surviving The Cut
The moment Waterloo Bridge was planned across the Thames, a new theatre to serve the transpontine coach trade was inevitable.…
Director’s cut
At the age of 75, the theatre director Michael Rudman has got around to his memoirs, their title taken from…
The producers
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Duncan Weeldon and Paul Elliott about the good old days – and getting shafted
Murder, motive and moustachery
Robert Gore-Langton on our love for fictional detectives — and especially Poirot
Law in action
As a new production of Twelve Angry Men opens in the West End, Robert Gore-Langton names his favourite courtroom dramas
Man with a plan
Robert Gore-Langton meets Gregory Doran, new artistic director at the RSC
Are you sitting comfortably…
Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books