Holly Williams

What’s the secret to a good pantomime script? From eliciting boos and hisses from audiences of all ages, to making sure there are enough local jokes and updating old stories for today, Holly Williams hears from playwrights tackling their first pantos and veterans who pen several every year about how they keep the tradition alive

Jack Holden is thrilling in this monodrama of American small-town horror

David Edgar’s new electoral drama is sharply topical and beautifully crafted

Ambitious examination of grief from Mohamed-Zain Dada

Ahead of the West End premiere of their second musical, Why Am I So Single?, the award-winning creators of mega-hit Six the Musical talk to Holly Williams about what sparked their interest in the genre, their partially autobiographical new show on the hideousness of modern dating and why the whirlwind success of their first production still feels surreal

Tamara Harvey’s first production as RSC head is slow to find its sea legs

Obsessed with the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical as a child, Holly Williams returns to the show that sparked her love of theatre to find out if the 2024 version can live up to her memories

As one of stage and screen’s most in-demand choreographers, Ellen Kane has rejuvenated iconic musicals, staged the triumph and tragedy of the England football team and even become a TikTok sensation. As her reinvention of A Chorus Line returns to Curve, she tells Holly Williams about breathing new life into classics

Lynn Nottage’s powerful drama of rust-belt decline demands a more urgent staging

Adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s coming-of-age novel bursts with raucous energy