Dodgy dealings
High summer and it’s blockbuster time. The Donmar’s latest show is by the acclaimed Nick Payne, whose play about string…
Edinburgh impressions
Lloyd Evans finds politics everywhere: not only in the architecture but at the Fringe too
The Edinburgh experience
Lloyd Evans samples the delights of the Fringe
A noo era
Hats off for theatrical recklessness. The producer Danielle Tarento has taken a $10-million Broadway mega-musical and staged it in the…
False starts
This is brilliant. The new play by Oliver Cotton, a 69-year-old actor, is set in New York in 1986. An…
Defying type
Lloyd Evans meets the ever-versatile David Haig
Cheek by Jumbo
West End producers are itching to get their hands on the new show at the Bush. Mama Mia’s director, Phyllida…
Bring on the clowns
The Ladykillers is back. Sean Foley’s adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy introduces us to a crew of villains who…
A fine vintage
Lloyd Evans meets Peter Nichols, who, in his ninth decade, is riding a wave of public favour
Miscast Macbeth
It’s always a problem with Macbeth: what accents to use? The Globe is applying the traditional remedy. Lord and Lady…
Young blood
Dominic Cooke did it at the Royal Court. Now Ed Hall is having crack as well. Cooke’s crazy decision to…
Hell hath no fury…
We all know Edwina Currie as a shrill, tasteless, attention-seeking Thatcherite nuisance from Liverpool. But the private Edwina — as…
