You can forgive Thea Sharrock for being a wreck. The 33-year-old mother of two very young boys is also directing two very demanding plays. Her much-lauded Mrs Klein, Nicholas Wright’s taut psychodrama, is soon to close at the Almeida, North London. Full Article at Times Online

Alan Bennett remarked that he’d “never had so much fun as rehearsing that play”. Full Article at Times Online

The news on stage … Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. Photograph: Tristram Kenton The defining moment came in May 2000. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

AS part of this autumn's six-venue mission to widen access to opera, and to increase performance opportunities for young singers, Glyndebourne on Tour, now in its 41st year, presents Mozart's Così fan tutte, Verdi's Falstaff and Janacek's Jenufa at the... Full Article at This Is Plymouth

I’ve been a fan of the show ever since I saw its National Theatre premiere as part of Nicholas Hytner’s opening season on taking over as artistic director back in 2003, and it still stands out as a stunning statement of intent: to bring in such a bold,... Full Article at The Stage

Neither the poet W.H. Auden nor composer Benjamin Britten were exactly famous for knockabout comedy. The surprise of Alan Bennett's new fictionalized bio-drama about their tussles between reputation and sexuality is the high laugh count. Full Article at Variety