….Thriller Live certainly hasn’t! The show opened at London’s Lyric Theatre in January 2009, just a few months before Michael Jackson’s death, and has stayed put ever since. It had already broken the Lyric Theatre’s record for longest running production when, earlier this month it played its 3358th performance and so broke the record of Jesus Christ Superstar to become the 15th longest-running musical in the West End. That doesn’t sound so very remarkable until you consider some of the shows in ...

Neil Johnson offers his first-person account of this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

SLEEPLESS director and writer Hannah Barker explores the impulse to use theatre to explain the horrifying condition of living with a genetic disease.

Dreamplay director Sarah Bedi discusses the thought processes adapting Strindberg's classic work — and the process of dreaming itself — for the stage.

Sarah Tattersall has written a one-woman show. Here, she explains why we shouldn't hate it.

Marianna Meloni gives her impressions of the Official London Theatre Audio Tour with Ian McKellen, a new way to experience London's Theatreland with one of the British theatre's biggest stars.

Natasha Landridge discusses the power of site-responsive work and the motivations behind her piece In Memory of Leaves in this guest blog.

PIGDOG co-founder Max Barton discusses the theatrical power of accessibility and how his current production of Karagula by Philip Ridley champions the Extra-Live.

From that sweet packet rustling in your ear, to the audible conversation a few rows back; at what point does inconsiderate behaviour progress from being slightly annoying to being so disruptive that it ruins a performance and, asks Lily Middleton, what can you do about it?

Last year's WWI centenary inspired many offerings on stage. Eva de Valk considers the role of theatre in commemorating conflict.