Drama
Send her victorious
Telegraph View: Helen Mirren has won every gong going for her portrayals of the Queen. Could there be a more sympathetic pairing of interpreter and muse?
Othello - review
These days it's becoming hard to write about the theatre without praising Nicholas Hytner. Can't he do something wrong so that we critics can start looking less like courtiers?
Sons Without Fathers - review
You know those football matches where, from that very first touch of the ball at kick-off, you can tell this is going to be a good one – and then it really is? That fluttering incredulity, all the way through – "They can't keep this up!" Sure enough,
Queen of the Nile - review
Tim Fountain's new piece operates on two levels: romantic and political. As a romance it plays out a standard story of lovelorn westerners finding fulfilment in the east.
Kate Bassett on Othello: Defeated by the green-eyed monster
Where's a good doctor when you need one? Iago implies that he has, personally, administered some physic.Kate Bassett on Othello: Defeated by the green-eyed monster
Where's a good doctor when you need one? Iago implies that he has, personally, administered some physic.Kate Bassett on Othello: Defeated by the green-eyed monster
Where's a good doctor when you need one? Iago implies that he has, personally, administered some physic.
The Ladykillers - Vaudeville Theatre
Graham Linehan’s award winning comedy The Ladykillers returns to London at The Vaudeville Theatre this summer following it’s recording breaking debut season in 2012. The Ladykillers tells the classic black comedy tale of a sweet little old lady, a
Marc Almond/Ten Plagues - review
In the programme for Ten Plagues, Marc Almond professes to having always been "very much a verse-chorus-middle-eight kind of person" – not the sort who would gravitate toward a song cycle inspired by the Great Plague of London. Yet here he is, in periwi