Read about the Cambridge University students captivating audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe this August.
David Vincent (CRASSH) discusses the nineteenth century theatrical sensation that inspired public debate about privacy.
From Richard III to Guys and Dolls, the ADC theatre will play host to an eclectic mix of shows in the coming months
How her personal library informed the phenomenal talent of the Italian actress Eleonora Duse is revealed in a newly-published book that catalogues...
Is tragedy the perfect dramatic form for our current predicament? Or has the classic idea of catharsis through viewing the suffering of others become...
The wit of Alan Ayckbourn returns to Cambridge at the ADC theatre this July (5th – 9th), with the first local amateur production of Improbable...
Medieval culture pervaded Shakespeare's life and work. Professor Helen Cooper examines its influence on the work of the world's greatest playwright...
Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?
With the curtains just closed on the 40th Cambridge Greek Play since the 1880s, Greek classicist Simon Goldhill reflects on how this creative genre...
Research into more than 30,000 unpublished drafts and letters casts new light on the inspirational Austrian novelist and playwright.
A Cambridge undergraduate has come first in a competition in which students face the daunting task of giving a full public lecture in Japanese.
![English actor John Liston as the title character in John Poole's 1825 farce, "Paul Pry"](https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/discussion/160224paulpry.jpg?itok=4YNGwiAx "English actor John Liston as the title character in John Poole's 1825 farce, "Paul Pry", Credit: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (Julie Ainsworth, photographer)")
