The latest production of Beauty and the Beast is straightforward with a twist, nonetheless, as Belle is a modern girl with anger management issues... more
It’s wonderful to see the fun that Katie Mitchell, the National’s at times dauntingly experimental associate director, is having with Christmas shows for families... more
From posh panto to burlesque, London is full of festive entertainment. Here are a dozen shows that should entice children — and adults — into the theatre.... more
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more
If ever there was a work suited to the theatre director Katie Mitchell's distinctive style of radical reinterpretation it is Virginia Woolf's The Waves, starting its second National Theatre run.... more
Nicholas de Jongh was bewitched by Katie Mitchell's Women of Troy, which recreates the classic Greek tragedy using smart English ladies flaunting their 1940s finery.... more
Despite the controversy caused by her last production, theatre director Katie Mitchell is pulling no punches with her interpretation of Women Of Troy.... more
The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.... more
Rory Bremner seems to have relished his move from politics, translating to the stage with breezy farce and a generous dollop of cynical social satire in this Brecht double bill.... more
Frantic on-stage activity distracts from what is said and done in Attempts on her Life, making Martin Crimp's satirical panorama hard to understand.... more
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more
The Waves, Virginia Woolf's beautiful, modernist prose-poem of a novel, has been adapted for the stage and the result is compelling, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
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