Lloyd Evans

My best fiend

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

Anthony Neilson is an Arts Council favourite known for trivial but impenetrable plays with off-putting names like The Wonderful World…

My best fiend

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

Anthony Neilson is an Arts Council favourite known for trivial but impenetrable plays with off-putting names like The Wonderful World…

Friel good factor

9 July 2016 9:00 am

Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…

Friel good factor

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…

Friel good factor

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…

Tangled web

2 July 2016 9:00 am

Mike Bartlett’s curious blank-verse drama Charles III became an international hit. His new effort examines the cut-throat world of dark-web…

More Dane than Thane: Ray Fearon as Macbeth

Tangled web

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

Mike Bartlett’s curious blank-verse drama Charles III became an international hit. His new effort examines the cut-throat world of dark-web…

More Dane than Thane: Ray Fearon as Macbeth

Tangled web

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

Mike Bartlett’s curious blank-verse drama Charles III became an international hit. His new effort examines the cut-throat world of dark-web…

Face value

25 June 2016 3:00 am

When Richard III’s bones were unearthed in a Leicester car park, Frankie Boyle suggested the headline ‘Bent royal found at…

All meat-cleaver and calculation: Ralph Fiennes as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in ‘Richard III’

Face value

23 June 2016 2:00 am

When Richard III’s bones were unearthed in a Leicester car park, Frankie Boyle suggested the headline ‘Bent royal found at…

All meat-cleaver and calculation: Ralph Fiennes as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in ‘Richard III’

Face value

23 June 2016 2:00 am

When Richard III’s bones were unearthed in a Leicester car park, Frankie Boyle suggested the headline ‘Bent royal found at…

I dream of Genie

18 June 2016 8:00 am

Gauche, perhaps, to complain about Aladdin but it slightly deserves it. The terrific Genie opens the show and then disappears…

I dream of Genie

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Gauche, perhaps, to complain about Aladdin but it slightly deserves it. The terrific Genie opens the show and then disappears…

I dream of Genie

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Gauche, perhaps, to complain about Aladdin but it slightly deserves it. The terrific Genie opens the show and then disappears…

Profit and loss

11 June 2016 8:00 am

Bertolt Brecht took The Threepenny Opera  from an 18th-century script by John Gay and relocated it to Victorian London. This…

We’re all going on a summer holiday: the cast of ‘Sunset at the Villa Thalia’

Profit and loss

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Bertolt Brecht took The Threepenny Opera  from an 18th-century script by John Gay and relocated it to Victorian London. This…

We’re all going on a summer holiday: the cast of ‘Sunset at the Villa Thalia’

Profit and loss

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Bertolt Brecht took The Threepenny Opera  from an 18th-century script by John Gay and relocated it to Victorian London. This…

Lily James as Juliet and Richard Madden as Romeo

Wish upon a star

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Out come the stars in Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet. He musters a well-drilled, celebrity-ridden crew but they can’t quite…

Lily James as Juliet and Richard Madden as Romeo

Wish upon a star

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Out come the stars in Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet. He musters a well-drilled, celebrity-ridden crew but they can’t quite…

Royal Court Theatre

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

If there were an Eddie the Eagle award for theatre — to recognise large reputations built on minuscule achievements —…

Royal Court Theatre

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

If there were an Eddie the Eagle award for theatre — to recognise large reputations built on minuscule achievements —…

Mind games

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…

Mind games

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…

A weird, druggy, space-age Bollywood mash-up: Emma Rice’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Bard goes to Bollywood

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

The Globe’s new chatelaine, Emma Rice, has certainly shaken the old place up. It’s almost unrecognisable. Huge white plastic orbs…

A weird, druggy, space-age Bollywood mash-up: Emma Rice’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Bard goes to Bollywood

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

The Globe’s new chatelaine, Emma Rice, has certainly shaken the old place up. It’s almost unrecognisable. Huge white plastic orbs…