Gem of the Ocean at The Tricycle Theatre
This play by August Wilson is set in Pittsburgh in 1904. 1839 Wylie Street in the Hill District is the home of Aunt Ester, a 285-year old former slave, who is a keeper of h…
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Manuscript for 'The School For Scandal' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
View high-resolution, zoomable facsimile of a manuscript for 'The School For Scandal' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan showing numerous crossings-out and changes that Sheridan …
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Deadeye at Soho Theatre
The play Deadeye is about Deema and her brother Tariq who don't want their lives to end up like their parents. They don't want to sit around dreaming of things that will ne…
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A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Roundhouse
The main plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream is a complex contraption that involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-p…
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Typhoon Live: Getting Married and Dogs (double bill) at Oval House Theatre
Getting Married is a light-hearted one-act play exploring the sweet and touching absurdity...
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A Christmas Carol at the Young Vic
A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night.…
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Annotated prompt book for 'Diplomacy' by Victorien Sardou
View high-resolution, zoomable facsimile of a prompt book for 'Diplomacy' by Victorien Sardou which belonged to the actor John Hare, manager of the Garrick Theatre. It incl…
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The National Video Archive of Performance
The National Video Archive of Performance (NVAP) creates high quality archival recordings of live performance which are available for theatre researchers. It is the outcome…
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Theatre Posters
The term ‘poster’ originates from the medieval period when brief hand-written details of performances were handed out and stuck to posts in towns. By 1576, when the first p…
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A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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Kids 'Grannie' Play Apron (5-7 yrs) ||EVAEX
Fun kids play apron in coated cotton.Print based on Grannie, designed by Natalie Gibson and made by Hull Traders LTD. Britain, 1966. 100% coated cott…
Buy nowEvent - Dominic Dromgoole: Shakespeare's Globe
Mon 17 June 2013 18:30
Theatre director and writer Dominic Dromgoole joined Shakespeare’s Globe as Artistic Director in 2005.
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