Religion and class, the twin pillars of the prewar order, are crumbling to dust. Where to find meaning in the nihilism of the new post-war world? Terence Rattigan’s most melancholic play arrives in ...

What began as a small workshop staging in Anaconda, Montana will arrive in New York next month as a limited revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. The production, executive ...

But what develops is a study in coping that is required once people arrive at a place beyond hope, not to mention a scalding portrait of the lacerating effect of lovelessness that has a resonance ...

Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is a work of genius. Inside its well-made frame, it holds such intense feeling. It’s like a pearl filled with lava, its shiny surface containing a seething heart.

Tamsin Greig is shatteringly good in Terence Rattigan’s 1952 tragedy of quiet desperation. She plays Hester Collyer, a clergyman’s daughter who left her eminent lawyer husband for a raffish ex-RAF ...