When David Edgar's Talking to Mars was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 27 October 1996, it brought the total of his performed works in all media to more than sixty, making him unquestionably the most prolific dramatist of the post-1960s generation in Great B...

Although now known for his gargantuan yet compelling play crafted for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, David Edgar as playwright and political activist grew up with the New Left political theater of the 1970s. Son o...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] (CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATER; 1,915 SEATS; 27.50 [pounds sterling] ($,56) TOP) EDINBURGH A Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott presentation for Triumph Entertainment of a Chichester Festival Theater production of a play in two parts and five acts by...

The Asolo takes on the lavish, challenging "Nicholas Nickleby." That old hollywood promotional line boasting about using "a cast of thousands" may seem almost true when 26 actors take to the Asolo's stage to portray a host of characters in "The Life...

Coram Boy, the play with music that comes to us via acclaim at London’s National Theatre, is a wonderful, near-mad folly on Broadway. Let me say at the outset that, unlike many of my miserable colleagues, I found this rollicking Gothic drama based on Jamila...

From Edward Albee to John Steinbeck. From Derek Walcott to Oscar Wilde. Then add David Edgar for good measure. Summer may be winding down, but the Stratford Festival of Canada isn't.The repertory theater, with 14 shows now on view, has opened a final, eclectic batch...