This book argues that theatre and drama help us to understand the concern about 'fake news'. Moran shows that 'fake news' has arisen in the twenty-first century throughwhat are essentially a series of performance contexts. Although the concept of 'fake news' has developed to great prominence since 2016, there is a much longer historyof theatre makers and thinkers grappling with the ideas that underpin our modern worries about misinformation being distributed in the press, in broadcast news, and viasocial media.