Lloyd Evans

Lily James as Juliet and Richard Madden as Romeo

Wish upon a star

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Out come the stars in Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet. He musters a well-drilled, celebrity-ridden crew but they can’t quite…

Lily James as Juliet and Richard Madden as Romeo

Wish upon a star

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Out come the stars in Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet. He musters a well-drilled, celebrity-ridden crew but they can’t quite…

Mind games

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…

Royal Court Theatre

28 May 2016 9:00 am

If there were an Eddie the Eagle award for theatre — to recognise large reputations built on minuscule achievements —…

Royal Court Theatre

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

If there were an Eddie the Eagle award for theatre — to recognise large reputations built on minuscule achievements —…

Royal Court Theatre

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

If there were an Eddie the Eagle award for theatre — to recognise large reputations built on minuscule achievements —…

Mind games

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…

Mind games

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…

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

Bard goes to Bollywood

21 May 2016 9:00 am

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

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…

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…