Theatre

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…

Wasn’t Lawrence of Arabia more annoying than this new play suggests?

14 May 2016 9:00 am

T.E. Lawrence is like the gap-year student from hell. He visits a country full of exotic barbarians and after a…

Shaw thing

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

T.E. Lawrence is like the gap-year student from hell. He visits a country full of exotic barbarians and after a…

Shaw thing

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

T.E. Lawrence is like the gap-year student from hell. He visits a country full of exotic barbarians and after a…

Talk of the Devil: Kit Harington in ‘Doctor Faustus’

A literary lap dance: Doctor Faustus reviewed

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Great excitement for play-goers as a rare version of a theological masterpiece arrives in the West End. Doctor Faustus stars…

Talk of the Devil: Kit Harington in ‘Doctor Faustus’

Literary lap dance

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Great excitement for play-goers as a rare version of a theological masterpiece arrives in the West End. Doctor Faustus stars…

Talk of the Devil: Kit Harington in ‘Doctor Faustus’

Literary lap dance

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Great excitement for play-goers as a rare version of a theological masterpiece arrives in the West End. Doctor Faustus stars…

Down and Out in Paris and London is a chav safari

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Down and Out in Paris and London is a brilliant specimen from a disreputable branch of writing: the chav safari,…

Polly’s pleb adventure

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Down and Out in Paris and London is a brilliant specimen from a disreputable branch of writing: the chav safari,…

Polly’s pleb adventure

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Down and Out in Paris and London is a brilliant specimen from a disreputable branch of writing: the chav safari,…

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The time when Putin seduced Corbyn in an East Berlin nightclub

23 April 2016 9:00 am

Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The Jezza effect

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…

Martin Neely as Jeremy Corbyn and Natasha Lewis as Diane Abbott

The Jezza effect

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…

Les Blancs at the Olivier is good-ish, but it won't be a classic

16 April 2016 9:00 am

Les Blancs had a troubled birth. In 1965 several unfinished drafts of the play were entrusted by its dying author,…

Deluded continent

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Les Blancs had a troubled birth. In 1965 several unfinished drafts of the play were entrusted by its dying author,…

Deluded continent

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Les Blancs had a troubled birth. In 1965 several unfinished drafts of the play were entrusted by its dying author,…

Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

I didn’t enjoy it but I couldn’t help loving it: Sunset Boulevard reviewed

9 April 2016 9:00 am

Sunset Boulevard is a tale of fractured glory with Homeric dimensions. The movie presents Hollywood as a never-ending Trojan War…

Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Close encounter

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Sunset Boulevard is a tale of fractured glory with Homeric dimensions. The movie presents Hollywood as a never-ending Trojan War…

Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Close encounter

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Sunset Boulevard is a tale of fractured glory with Homeric dimensions. The movie presents Hollywood as a never-ending Trojan War…

Leading the party, two brilliant showmen: Kenneth Branagh (Ralph) and Rob Brydon (Brian) in ‘The Painkillers’

Slapstick enthusiasts will love this Branagh and Brydon farce: The Painkillers reviewed

2 April 2016 9:00 am

Sir Ken’s excellent West End residency continues with a sugar-rich confection. Sean Foley has adapted and updated an elderly French farce…

Leading the party, two brilliant showmen: Kenneth Branagh (Ralph) and Rob Brydon (Brian) in ‘The Painkillers’

Funny boys

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

Sir Ken’s excellent West End residency continues with a sugar-rich confection. Sean Foley has adapted and updated an elderly French farce…

Leading the party, two brilliant showmen: Kenneth Branagh (Ralph) and Rob Brydon (Brian) in ‘The Painkillers’

Funny boys

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

Sir Ken’s excellent West End residency continues with a sugar-rich confection. Sean Foley has adapted and updated an elderly French farce…

Catherine Tate’s talents are wasted on this meandering musical about nuclear fallout

26 March 2016 9:00 am

Miss Atomic Bomb celebrates the sub-culture that grew up around nuclear tests in 1950s America. The citizens of Nevada would…

Nuclear waste

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

Miss Atomic Bomb celebrates the sub-culture that grew up around nuclear tests in 1950s America. The citizens of Nevada would…