Lloyd Evans

Watch three irascible women screaming at each other: Anthropology, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

16 September 2023 9:00 am

Anthropology is a drama about artificial intelligence that starts as an ultra-gloomy soap opera. A suicidal lesbian, Merril, speaks on…

Osborne, Balls and a glimpse of Westminster’s rotten culture

16 September 2023 12:02 am

Podcast mania continues at Westminster. Discarded grandees from all parties have noticed the success of The Rest is Politics, the…

Lacks any air of mystery, foreboding or darkness: Macbeth, at the Globe, reviewed

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Macbeth at the Globe wants to put us at our ease and make us feel comfortable with the play’s arcane…

Like an episode of Play School: Dr Semmelweis, at the Harold Pinter Theatre, reviewed

2 September 2023 9:00 am

Bleach and germs are the central themes of Dr Semmelweis, written by Mark Rylance and Stephen Brown. The opening scene,…

Two very long hours: The Effect, at the Lyttelton Theatre, reviewed

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Lucy Prebble belongs to the posse of scribblers responsible for the HBO hit, Succession. Perhaps in honour of this distinction,…

Rizal Van Geyzel races through his 60-minute set peppering the material with snatches of Chinese, Tamil and Malay

Trump, Diogenes, the Mitfords and Malaysian comedy: Edinburgh Fringe round-up

19 August 2023 9:00 am

The Mitfords is a superb one-woman show by Emma Wilkinson Wright who focuses her attention on Unity, Diana and Jessica.…

A tragicomic lecture about Gold at Edinburgh Festival

12 August 2023 9:00 am

A chilly August in Edinburgh. Colder than it’s been for 20 years and the city looks scruffier than ever. Locked…

Alex Salmond teases a reconciliation with Sturgeon

9 August 2023 9:47 pm

Even in her absence, Nicola Sturgeon dominated Iain Dale’s discussion with Alex Salmond and David Davis at the Edinburgh festival.…

Mick Lynch is stuck in the past

8 August 2023 12:32 am

Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT, has never felt truly English. In conversation with Iain Dale at the…

Bizarre and outdated: Word-Play at the Royal Court reviewed

5 August 2023 9:00 am

The Royal Court’s new topical satire, Word-Play, opens with a gaffe-prone Tory prime minister giving a TV interview in which…

Finally an entertaining play at the Royal Court: Cuckoo reviewed

29 July 2023 9:00 am

The boss of the Royal Court, Vicky Featherstone, will soon step down and she’s using her final spell in charge…

Forgettable stuff: The Crown Jewels, at the Garrick, reviewed

22 July 2023 9:00 am

In the 1990s, the BBC had a popular flat-share comedy, Men Behaving Badly, about a pair of giggling bachelors who…

Roll up, roll up for Ian Blackford’s farewell tour

21 July 2023 3:33 am

Ian Blackford, the SNP MP, is to stand down at the next election. And last night he gave an interview…

Kwame Kwei-Armah’s embarrassing update of Love Thy Neighbour: Beneatha’s Place, at the Young Vic, reviewed

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Beneatha’s Place, set in the 1950s, follows a black couple who encounter racial prejudice when they move to a predominately…

A naked pamphleteering exercise: Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical, at Phoenix Theatre, reviewed

8 July 2023 9:00 am

Nothing demonstrates the inanity of profanity like an undercooked comedy. The famous Spitting Image puppets have returned in a political…

A play that explains why England’s football team are so lousy: Dear England, at the Olivier Theatre, reviewed

1 July 2023 9:00 am

James Graham’s entertaining new play looks at the England manager’s job. Everyone knows that coaching the national side is just…

An unreliable history: When Winston Went to War with the Wireless, at the Donmar, reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

When Winston Went to War with the Wireless is the clumsy and misleading title of a new play about John…

Like attending a joyous religious service: We Will Rock You, at the Coliseum, reviewed

17 June 2023 9:00 am

One of the earliest jukebox musicals has returned to the West End. When the show opened in 2002 the author,…

Hamlet fans will love this: Re-Member Me, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

10 June 2023 9:00 am

A puzzle at Hampstead Theatre. Literally, a brain teaser. Its new production, Re-member Me, is a one-man show written and…

Much better than the film: Mrs Doubtfire, at Shaftesbury Theatre, reviewed

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Mrs Doubtfire is a social comedy about divorce. We meet Miranda, a talentless, bitter mother, who tires of her caring…

Ugly and humdrum: Brokeback Mountain, at @sohoplace, reviewed

27 May 2023 9:00 am

Brokeback Mountain, a play with music, opens in a scruffy bedroom where a snowy-haired tramp finds a lumberjack’s shirt and…

What’s this? A good joke from Sir Keir?

25 May 2023 1:50 am

Strange tactics by Sir Keir at PMQs. He raised the issue of broken promises on immigration, which gave Rishi Sunak…

Sad, blinkered and incoherent: Arcola’s The Misandrist reviewed

20 May 2023 9:00 am

A new play, The Misandrist, looks at modern dating habits. Rachel is a smart, self-confident woman whose partner is a…

Riveting and sumptuous: The Motive and the Cue, at the Lyttelton Theatre, reviewed

13 May 2023 9:00 am

The Motive and the Cue breaches the inviolable sanctity of the rehearsal room. The play, set in New York in…

So good it would have made Ibsen envious: Dixon and Daughters, at the Dorfman Theatre, reviewed

6 May 2023 9:00 am

Dixon and Daughters is a family drama that opens on a note of sour mistrust. We’re in a working-class home…