Book review – theatre history

Richard Burton at the Old Vic in 1953. and Adrian Lester in Peter Brook’s 2001 production

Glenda Jackson might have made a magnificent Hamlet

25 August 2018 9:00 am

The role of Hamlet is, Max Beerbohm famously wrote, ‘a hoop through which every eminent actor must, sooner or later,…

The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal - review

11 January 2014 9:00 am

In 1976, as the National Theatre moved into its new home on London’s South Bank, its literary manager Kenneth Tynan…