It is 2004 and Gertrude (Vanessa Redgrave) runs the biggest government department, Britain At Work PLC. Fay Weldon's new play portrays a cold, commercial Britain, repackaged as a business.

Henry James. "I wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him to Cambridge, and, in 1893, registered at the "Harvard Annex." Gertrude Stein has since become ...

A Room in the Castle, by Lauren M. Gunderson, premiering at the Folger Theatre, is a fresh look at a story we thought we knew ...

Gertrude of Merania, Queen of Hungary, and Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised mistress to a French king. One a ‘princess’, the other a minor aristocrat. What could these two young women born ...

Confusion reigns on Earth as Queen Gertrude of Genovia sacks her cabinet, invites all the world's leaders to attend a conference at her palace and starts behaving very strangely. It soon emerges that ...

“Simple things that are a little strange” is how Chicago painter Gertrude Abercrombie described her enigmatic works that locate the peculiar in everyday life. “Gertrude Abercrombie: The ...