The title of Howard Brenton’s Sore Throats comes with an intriguing appendage: An Intimate Play in Two Acts. The key word here is intimate because this 1979 divorce drama (in its much belated New York ...

Howard Brenton‘s new play Drawing the Line, about the creation of modern-day Pakistan, will premiere at Hampstead Theatre in December. Daunting task: Cyril Radcliffe The play, which will be directed ...

He chronicled the experience in his novel Inferno. Like so much of his autobiographical writing it is unreliable. Truth in Strindberg is, shall we say, a moveable reality ­– as he says in my play, ...

Howard Brenton’s new political drama Never So Good, chronicling the life and times of Harold Macmillan, received its world premiere last night (26 March 2008, previews from 17 March) at the National ...

The full cast of the world premiere of Howard Brenton's new play, Cancelling Socrates is announced by Jermyn Street Theatre today. Today, Socrates is revered as the founding father of Western ...

Now it’s the turn of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, two titans of the allied side in the second world war. Churchill in Moscow reunites Brenton with Tom Littler, the successful artistic director ...