The Latest Breaking News from Rupert Goold

Having worked his magic as director of the Almeida theatre, the gifted Goold is bound for greater glories: the National had better watch out

Goold oversaw productions such as Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening, Richard III, Patriots, King Charles III and Ink at the Almeida

Mulled wine and festive cheer? Forget about it, and see this bleak postwar love story unfold instead

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble

Elvis Costello songs to feature in play by Girl from the North Country’s Conor McPherson, directed by Rupert Goold at Almeida theatre

Since 1966, the England men’s football team has had an unerring ability to dash a nation’s dreams, said Andrzej Lukowski in Time Out. So a play about the squad’s supposed “resurrection” under manager Gareth Southgate feels “potentially hubristic” – and at risk of “dangerously overhyping a gifted man who still…

Joseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin McDonagh revival; and a musical Third Man hits a bum note

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says