Lloyd Evans

A weird, druggy, space-age Bollywood mash-up: Emma Rice’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Bard goes to Bollywood

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

The Globe’s new chatelaine, Emma Rice, has certainly shaken the old place up. It’s almost unrecognisable. Huge white plastic orbs…

Shaw thing

14 May 2016 9:00 am

T.E. Lawrence is like the gap-year student from hell. He visits a country full of exotic barbarians and after a…

Shaw thing

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

T.E. Lawrence is like the gap-year student from hell. He visits a country full of exotic barbarians and after a…

Shaw thing

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

T.E. Lawrence is like the gap-year student from hell. He visits a country full of exotic barbarians and after a…

Talk of the Devil: Kit Harington in ‘Doctor Faustus’

Literary lap dance

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Great excitement for play-goers as a rare version of a theological masterpiece arrives in the West End. Doctor Faustus stars…

Talk of the Devil: Kit Harington in ‘Doctor Faustus’

Literary lap dance

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Great excitement for play-goers as a rare version of a theological masterpiece arrives in the West End. Doctor Faustus stars…

Talk of the Devil: Kit Harington in ‘Doctor Faustus’

Literary lap dance

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Great excitement for play-goers as a rare version of a theological masterpiece arrives in the West End. Doctor Faustus stars…

Polly’s pleb adventure

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Down and Out in Paris and London is a brilliant specimen from a disreputable branch of writing: the chav safari,…

Polly’s pleb adventure

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Down and Out in Paris and London is a brilliant specimen from a disreputable branch of writing: the chav safari,…

Polly’s pleb adventure

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Down and Out in Paris and London is a brilliant specimen from a disreputable branch of writing: the chav safari,…

Death and the Bard

23 April 2016 9:00 am

How did Shakespeare kick the bucket? Lloyd Evans considers the evidence

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The Jezza effect

23 April 2016 9:00 am

Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…

Death and the Bard

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 How did the Bard kick the bucket? The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death reignites interest in a great…

Death and the Bard

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 How did the Bard kick the bucket? The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death reignites interest in a great…

Death and the Bard

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 How did the Bard kick the bucket? The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death reignites interest in a great…

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The Jezza effect

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The Jezza effect

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…

Deluded continent

16 April 2016 9:00 am

Les Blancs had a troubled birth. In 1965 several unfinished drafts of the play were entrusted by its dying author,…

Deluded continent

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Les Blancs had a troubled birth. In 1965 several unfinished drafts of the play were entrusted by its dying author,…

Deluded continent

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Les Blancs had a troubled birth. In 1965 several unfinished drafts of the play were entrusted by its dying author,…

Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Close encounter

9 April 2016 9:00 am

Sunset Boulevard is a tale of fractured glory with Homeric dimensions. The movie presents Hollywood as a never-ending Trojan War…

Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Close encounter

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Sunset Boulevard is a tale of fractured glory with Homeric dimensions. The movie presents Hollywood as a never-ending Trojan War…

Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Close encounter

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Sunset Boulevard is a tale of fractured glory with Homeric dimensions. The movie presents Hollywood as a never-ending Trojan War…

Leading the party, two brilliant showmen: Kenneth Branagh (Ralph) and Rob Brydon (Brian) in ‘The Painkillers’

Funny boys

2 April 2016 9:00 am

Sir Ken’s excellent West End residency continues with a sugar-rich confection. Sean Foley has adapted and updated an elderly French farce…

Leading the party, two brilliant showmen: Kenneth Branagh (Ralph) and Rob Brydon (Brian) in ‘The Painkillers’

Funny boys

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

Sir Ken’s excellent West End residency continues with a sugar-rich confection. Sean Foley has adapted and updated an elderly French farce…