Theatre

Carly Bawden as Alice and Joshua Lacey as the White Rabbit

Alice in cyberspace

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

Damon Albarn and Rufus Norris present a musical version of Alice in Wonderland. A challenging enterprise even if they’d stuck…

Carly Bawden as Alice and Joshua Lacey as the White Rabbit

Alice in cyberspace

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

Damon Albarn and Rufus Norris present a musical version of Alice in Wonderland. A challenging enterprise even if they’d stuck…

Noma Dumezweni as Linda

A rare moment of transcendence at the Royal Court

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Illness forced Kim Cattrall to withdraw from Linda, the Royal Court’s new show, and Noma Dumezweni scooped up the debris…

Noma Dumezweni as Linda

Passion play

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

Illness forced Kim Cattrall to withdraw from Linda, the Royal Court’s new show, and Noma Dumezweni scooped up the debris…

Noma Dumezweni as Linda

Passion play

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

Illness forced Kim Cattrall to withdraw from Linda, the Royal Court’s new show, and Noma Dumezweni scooped up the debris…

Tricycle’s Ben Hur is magnificent in its superficiality - a masterpiece of nothing

12 December 2015 9:00 am

It’s the target that makes the satire as well as the satirist. Is the subject powerful, active, relevant and menacing?…

Tricycle’s Ben Hur is magnificent in its superficiality – a masterpiece of nothing

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

It’s the target that makes the satire as well as the satirist. Is the subject powerful, active, relevant and menacing?…

Tricycle’s Ben Hur is magnificent in its superficiality – a masterpiece of nothing

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

It’s the target that makes the satire as well as the satirist. Is the subject powerful, active, relevant and menacing?…

Steely, erotic, indomitable: Gemma Chan as Ruth in ‘The Homecoming’

Awards await this mostly terrific new Homecoming

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s The Homecoming is a pile of terrific and silly ideas. Mostly terrific. The action takes…

Steely, erotic, indomitable: Gemma Chan as Ruth in ‘The Homecoming’

Men behaving badly

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s The Homecoming is a pile of terrific and silly ideas. Mostly terrific. The action takes…

Steely, erotic, indomitable: Gemma Chan as Ruth in ‘The Homecoming’

Men behaving badly

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s The Homecoming is a pile of terrific and silly ideas. Mostly terrific. The action takes…

Why is there no one at the National Theatre preventing these duds getting staged?

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Wallace Shawn is a lovely old sausage. A stalwart of American theatre, he’s taken cameo roles in classic movies like…

Why is there no one at the National Theatre preventing these duds getting staged?

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

Wallace Shawn is a lovely old sausage. A stalwart of American theatre, he’s taken cameo roles in classic movies like…

Why is there no one at the National Theatre preventing these duds getting staged?

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

Wallace Shawn is a lovely old sausage. A stalwart of American theatre, he’s taken cameo roles in classic movies like…

Judi Dench (Paulina) and Kenneth Branagh (Leontes) in ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Kenneth Branagh’s The Winter’s Tale is better than any I can recall

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Kenneth Branagh opens his West End tenancy with Shakespeare’s inexplicably popular The Winter’s Tale. We start in Sicily where Leontes…

Judi Dench (Paulina) and Kenneth Branagh (Leontes) in ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Winter wonderland

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Kenneth Branagh opens his West End tenancy with Shakespeare’s inexplicably popular The Winter’s Tale. We start in Sicily where Leontes…

Judi Dench (Paulina) and Kenneth Branagh (Leontes) in ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Winter wonderland

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Kenneth Branagh opens his West End tenancy with Shakespeare’s inexplicably popular The Winter’s Tale. We start in Sicily where Leontes…

Rosalie Craig as Rosalind in ‘As You Like It’

How did this plotless goon-show wind up at the Royal Court?

14 November 2015 9:00 am

One of the challenges of art is to know the difference between innovation and error. I wonder sometimes if the…

Rosalie Craig as Rosalind in ‘As You Like It’

How did this plotless goon-show wind up at the Royal Court?

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

One of the challenges of art is to know the difference between innovation and error. I wonder sometimes if the…

Rosalie Craig as Rosalind in ‘As You Like It’

How did this plotless goon-show wind up at the Royal Court?

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

One of the challenges of art is to know the difference between innovation and error. I wonder sometimes if the…

Going ape: Bertie Carvel as Yank

Glyndebourne caters to the lower-middle classes not past-it toffs

7 November 2015 9:00 am

What is Glyndebourne? A middle-aged Bullingdon. That’s a common view: a luxury bun fight for past-it toffs who glug champagne,…

Going ape: Bertie Carvel as Yank

Glyndebourne caters to the lower-middle classes not past-it toffs

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

What is Glyndebourne? A middle-aged Bullingdon. That’s a common view: a luxury bun fight for past-it toffs who glug champagne,…

Going ape: Bertie Carvel as Yank

Glyndebourne caters to the lower-middle classes not past-it toffs

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

What is Glyndebourne? A middle-aged Bullingdon. That’s a common view: a luxury bun fight for past-it toffs who glug champagne,…

Character assassination

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Here are three truths about play-writing. A script without an interval will be structurally flawed. A vague, whimsical title means…

Character assassination

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Here are three truths about play-writing. A script without an interval will be structurally flawed. A vague, whimsical title means…