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King Kong: Why Hong Kong is booming again

06.11.09

Hong Kong used to be the place to go to seek your fortune when you'd failed in the City. But now only the most successful Londoners can afford to brave the high-risk, high-rise island... more

Not all of us are driven by money

12.10.09

Not everyone works just for financial gain. Unlike City bankers, many of us are driven by factors other than cash, says Philip Delves Broughton... more

Guided tour of financial crash in The Power of Yes

07.10.09

A National Theatre should tackle national issues, and that is certainly what David Hare's new play - The Power of Yes - does.... more

Opening this week

28.09.09

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has its premiere in Leicester Square and The Power of Yes comes to the National.... more

Money can't buy love at Criterion

09.07.09

With a pianist belting out Billy Joel, it may take a while for Criterion to find its natural constituency. ... more

Everything Must Go bites economy back

26.06.09

Everything Must Go is a low-budget evening of 10 short pieces, written late and rehearsed in just two weeks by a team of five actors at the Soho Theatre.... more

Banging his head against that Wall

20.04.09

In Wall, David Hare turns his formidable attention to the Israeli security fence, which will one day be four times as long as the Berlin Wall.... more

David Hare: Blair is to blame for this mess

16.04.09

Leading political playwright David Hare says Gordon Brown's past is catching up with him as New Labour's love affair with the City unravels... more

Hare bangs his head against a Wall

13.03.09

David Hare's monologue is an awkward experience but formidably well informed, engrossing and passionate.... more

No awkwardness in Berlin

13.02.09

David Hare muses wittily, as well as trenchantly, on the German capital and his long-held admiration for it in Berlin.... more

Slumdog Millionaire in British charge for Oscars

22.01.09

Kate Winslet will lead the British charge at next month's Oscars... more

Winslet's a winner in The Reader

18.12.08

The Reader, Stephen Daldry's sensitive film of a controversial book about a former Auschwitz guard, gives Kate her best role in years.... more

Holocaust chic or a true examination of good and evil?

18.12.08

As a controversial film starring Kate Winslet as a death camp guard opens in London in the new year, one cultural commentator considers the moral issues and ambiguities it raises... more

Some inside jobs in Writers' Rooms

04.12.08

Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored. ... more

Let the BBC beware of the wrath of suburbia

19.11.08

The hash Newsnight made of covering the effects of the recession in suburbia shows more tellingly than the Ross affair the depth of the trouble the BBC is in... more

The Rabbi has a point but Otto is no Fagin

18.11.08

A leading London rabbi, Yitzhak Schochet of Mill Hill United Synagogue, has suggested that there are anti-Semitic elements in David Hare's new play, Gethsemane. Are there? ... more

High hopes dashed in Gethsemane

12.11.08

The melodramatics of the action in Gethsemane are not well suited to a play intent upon lamenting the decline and fall of Labour.... more

Theatre

08.10.08

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

Spot the Labour plot in Hare's new play

13.08.08

A play which appears to mirror financial crises which engulfed Tony Blair's administration is to open at the National Theatre... more

On edge with the Iron Lady

08.02.08

Playwright Tom Green can only manage a little slight comedy and a lot of pointless whimsy in The Death of Margaret Thatcher.... more

Le Cercle is perfect post-theatre

06.02.08

For cooking as precise as it proved to be and an imaginative list of items to choose from, Le Cercle is a very good deal indeed.... more

This weapon is firing blanks

04.02.08

Weapons of Happiness is a dry piece of 1970s agitprop that doesn't make for a scintillating evening.... more

Eloquent but contrived

23.01.08

Although The Vertical Hour is reinforced by superb, emotionally charged performances, Nicholas de Jongh was left surprised by the cursory arguments about the invasion of Iraq.... more

Not-so naked ambition

22.01.08

The star of David Hare’s controversial new play tells Claire Allfree how she swapped the steaminess of Kama Sutra and Basic Instinct 2 for passion of a political kind.... more

Back into dragon's den for Felicity

10.12.07

Former Good Life star Felicity Kendal is to play a glamorous socialite and man-eating mother in Noel Coward's play The Vortex.... more

Britons up for theatre awards

16.05.07

British artists achieved success across the board in the nominations for the 61st annual Tony awards. British playwright Tom Stoppard received 10 nominations, including Best Play. ... more

The spinner gets spun

06.12.06

Catch is part of the Royal Court's 50th anniversary celebrations, but Kieron Quirke finds this riff on themes of identity going downhill fast.... more

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

05.12.06

Felicity Kendal's poignant turn, a horrifying plant and a riveting interview with David Frost are among the current West End treats.... more

Sensational Felicity makes serious stand

21.11.06

Felicity Kendal's formidable charm and sweetness in Amy's View gives David Hare's play fresh life, writes Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Pravda's prescience

14.09.06

Time has not been altogether kind to Pravda. What once was a scathing farce that wittily shafted the British newspaper industry is now curiously dated, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more