Lloyd Evans

Is this the real First Lady of 'Borgen'?

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans tries to get a handle on Birgette Hjort Sorensen

Jude Law's Henry V is a buccaneer leading a stag-night raid across the continent — but he'd be a great Macbeth

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Henry V is the final show in Michael Grandage’s first West End season. The theatre was full to bursting on…

You can't have Mojo and your money back

7 December 2013 9:00 am

In 1992 Quentin Tarentino gave us Reservoir Dogs. At a stroke he reinvented the gangster genre and turned it into…

Martin Shaw's flaws make him perfect for Twelve Angry Men

30 November 2013 9:00 am

Strange actor, Martin Shaw. He’s got all the right equipment for major stardom: a handsome and complicated face, a languid…

Ben Miller interview: 'Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes'

30 November 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans talks to Ben Miller about politics, physics and his part in The Duck House

Finally — a play about insomnia that cures insomnia

23 November 2013 9:00 am

Athol Fugard is regarded as a theatrical titan but I usually need a microscope to find any trace of greatness…

Highly alluring: Gemma Chan as Athena in ‘Our Ajax’

'Keeler' is not just about Tory bigwigs chasing nymphettes around the pool

16 November 2013 9:00 am

It’s an unlovely venue, for sure. Charing Cross Theatre, underneath the arches, likes to welcome vagrant plays that can’t find…

British empire? What British empire?

9 November 2013 9:00 am

Here’s a tip for play-goers. When the curtain goes up on a garden, prepare for some feeble plotting. The glory…

Terrific: Barnaby Kay (Keith) and Tamzin Outhwaite (Briony)

Toffs rule! 

2 November 2013 9:00 am

This is a strange one. Simon Paisley Day’s new play feels like a conventional comedy of manners. Three couples pitch…

Zoë Wanamaker: We need more giants like Obama

26 October 2013 9:00 am

Zoë Wanamaker on politics, acting, and drinking vodka

The Light Princess badly needs a mission

26 October 2013 9:00 am

There are many pleasures in The Light Princess, a new musical by Tori Amos. George MacDonald’s fairy story introduces us…

The Labour education secretary who could have been Britain's first woman PM

19 October 2013 9:00 am

Decent, clever, charming, eloquent, hard-working, conscientious and terribly, terribly nice, Shirley Williams is one of Britain’s best-loved politicians. Mark Peel’s…

Bullied by a swaggering Conservative: Sam (Simon Lennon)

Did gay Conservatives have it easier in the past? Tory Boyz makes me think they did

19 October 2013 9:00 am

Bang! The race is on. James Graham is the celebrated author of This House, a superb examination of Labour’s administrative…

An audience with the Queen and Mrs Thatcher

12 October 2013 9:00 am

A feast of pleasures, and some annoyances, at the Trike. Handbagged, by Moira Buffini, is a fictional account of the…

The peril with Brecht is that he will always be Brecht

5 October 2013 9:00 am

Brecht in the West End? Quite a rarity. Jonathan Church’s zippy and stylish version of The Resistible Rise of Arturo…

Barking in Essex: a hit with hen-night hysterics

28 September 2013 9:00 am

How appropriate. Barking in Essex, a farce about gangsters, has been dishonestly billed as ‘a new comedy’. The script was…

Hysteria is a pile-up of unmotivated absurdities

21 September 2013 9:00 am

Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by…

Gender bender: Sophie Crawford as Pope Joan

Theatre review: Fleabag's scandalous success

14 September 2013 9:00 am

Suddenly they’re all at it. Actors, that is, writing plays. David Haig, Rory Kinnear and Simon Paisley Day are all…

Blue Stockings defames women in order to defame men; Thark succeeds thanks to a trio of great perfomances

7 September 2013 9:00 am

More un-Shakespearean drama at London’s leading Shakespeare venue. The Globe has pushed the Bard off stage to make way for…

Henry Goodman by Dan Williams

Henry Goodman interview: How to make Brecht fun

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans talks to Henry Goodman about his role in the playwright’s political allegory

Gritty, sweet-natured charm: Stephen Campbell Moore as Joe

Chimerica is a triumph

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Chimerica. The weird title of Lucy Kirkwood’s hit play conjoins the names of the eastern and western superpowers and promises…

Opposing sides: Monica Dolan, the super-brainy lawyer, and Daniel Mays (Andrew)

Crash-for-cash scam at the Donmar

24 August 2013 9:00 am

High summer and it’s blockbuster time. The Donmar’s latest show is by the acclaimed Nick Payne, whose play about string…

The best satire at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans finds politics everywhere: not only in the architecture but at the Fringe too

The next Joyce Grenfell at the Edinburgh Fringe

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans samples the delights of the Fringe

A mega-musical that’s like watching the Downton cast crammed into a telephone kiosk

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Hats off for theatrical recklessness. The producer Danielle Tarento has taken a $10-million Broadway mega-musical and staged it in the…