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Not all of us are driven by money

2009-10-12T10:24:18Z

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

Guided tour of financial crash in The Power of Yes

2009-10-06T23:00:00Z

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

Opening this week

2009-09-28T08:41:41Z

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

Money can't buy love at Criterion

2009-07-08T23:00:00Z

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

Everything Must Go bites economy back

2009-06-25T23:00:00Z

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.

Banging his head against that Wall

2009-04-19T23:00:00Z

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.

David Hare: Blair is to blame for this mess

2009-04-16T07:45:35Z

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

Hare bangs his head against a Wall

2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

No awkwardness in Berlin

2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

Slumdog Millionaire in British charge for Oscars

2009-01-22T14:59:22Z

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

Winslet's a winner in The Reader

2008-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

Holocaust chic or a true examination of good and evil?

2008-12-18T09:53:03Z

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

Some inside jobs in Writers' Rooms

2008-12-04T00:00:00Z

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

Let the BBC beware of the wrath of suburbia

2008-11-19T08:58:19Z

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

The Rabbi has a point but Otto is no Fagin

2008-11-18T09:07:50Z

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?

High hopes dashed in Gethsemane

2008-11-12T00:00:00Z

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

Theatre

2008-10-02T10:15:37Z

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.

Spot the Labour plot in Hare's new play

2008-08-13T07:40:07Z

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

On edge with the Iron Lady

2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

Le Cercle is perfect post-theatre

2008-02-06T00:00:00Z

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.

This weapon is firing blanks

2008-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

Eloquent but contrived

2008-01-23T00:00:00Z

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.

Not-so naked ambition

2008-01-22T16:25:03Z

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.

Back into dragon's den for Felicity

2007-12-10T14:59:09Z

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

Britons up for theatre awards

2007-05-16T08:14:58Z

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.

The spinner gets spun

2006-12-06T00:00:00Z

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

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

2006-12-05T16:19:07Z

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

Sensational Felicity makes serious stand

2006-11-21T00:00:00Z

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

A bitch of a job for Dame Judi

2006-10-05T09:35:47Z

Her latest role as a treacherous school teacher is something of a departure. But Judi Dench understands the character, she tells Mike Goodridge.

Pravda's prescience

2006-09-13T23:00:00Z

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.