Theatre

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’

A literary lap dance: Doctor Faustus reviewed

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…

Down and Out in Paris and London is a chav safari

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,…

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The time when Putin seduced Corbyn in an East Berlin nightclub

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…

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…

Les Blancs at the Olivier is good-ish, but it won't be a classic

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’

I didn’t enjoy it but I couldn’t help loving it: Sunset Boulevard reviewed

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’

Slapstick enthusiasts will love this Branagh and Brydon farce: The Painkillers reviewed

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…

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…

Catherine Tate’s talents are wasted on this meandering musical about nuclear fallout

26 March 2016 9:00 am

Miss Atomic Bomb celebrates the sub-culture that grew up around nuclear tests in 1950s America. The citizens of Nevada would…

Nuclear waste

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

Miss Atomic Bomb celebrates the sub-culture that grew up around nuclear tests in 1950s America. The citizens of Nevada would…

Nuclear waste

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

Miss Atomic Bomb celebrates the sub-culture that grew up around nuclear tests in 1950s America. The citizens of Nevada would…

Sister act: Zawe Ashton and Uzo Aduba in Jean Genet’s ‘The Maids’

Jean Genet’s fascinating play, The Maids, is botched at Trafalgar Studios

19 March 2016 9:00 am

The Maids is a fascinating document. Written in 1947, Jean Genet’s drama portrays a pair of serving girls who enact…

Sister act: Zawe Ashton and Uzo Aduba in Jean Genet’s ‘The Maids’

Time out of mind

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

The Maids is a fascinating document. Written in 1947, Jean Genet’s drama portrays a pair of serving girls who enact…