Theatre

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review

The final part of this week's art and trauma-themed Digest: A new play from Adam Brace at London's Almeida Theatre

Finding hope in hopeless times

On the new large-scale co-production Medea.Matrix by Susanne Kennedy, who will soon join Chris Dercon's new team at Berlin's Volksbühne

Brian O'Doherty's homage to Samuel Beckett

Robert Wilson's exuberant portrayal of Samuel Beckett's weary anti-hero, Krapp

Eimear McBride’s celebrated debut novel is taken to the stage

What is an artist's play and how does it differ from performance art?

What Milo Rau’s new play tells us about our current ‘humanitarian’ European identity

Ulla von Brandenburg’s recent performance is inspired by a post-French Revolution proto-feminist group 

As Chris Dercon is appointed artistic director at Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany is experiencing its biggest theatre controversy in more than 20 years

Actor and theatre director Herbert Fritsch on his love of art – from Jackson Pollock to Dieter Roth – and not using scripts

David Levine, whose work embraces theatre, performance and video, discusses acting and identity

In this series, frieze d/e asks artists to discuss their affinities to another person’s work. Here, Sibylle Berg shares her enthusiasm for the Finnish video artist Heta Multanen

The ‘laugh-out-loud’ appeal of Michael Portnoy’s theatre production, first staged at dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel

Newsrooms, agitprop theatre and the‘living newspaper'