While there will be flashier productions of Henry IV than this double bill centrepiece of the annual Peter Hall Company summer residency in Bath, it's tough to imagine many boasting clearer storytelling... more
Sir Peter Hall issued a rallying call for the arts in the face of government cuts as he was honoured at the 56th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more
Can normal diplomatic relations can be sustained when at least one side is in doubt about whether their confidential disclosures will end up on the front page of the New York Times?... more
The Alan Ayckbourn revival thunders on. Just four nights after the opening of Taking Steps, Bedroom Farce transfers to the West End after an acclaimed run at the Rose, Kingston... more
Judi Dench is reprising her role as the queen of the fairies, with Peter Hall sprinkling the magic dust on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.... more
Son of Sir Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and later ran the National, is to take charge of Hampstead Theatre — but has already said he would not be taking any advice from his father... more
Recession - what recession? Last week I went to two of the most lavish parties I've been to for many a moon (and believe me, I go to a lot of parties)... more
Albert Herring, Britten's sexy operatic satire on English parish life, is given a fresh lease of life by a sparkling new revival of Peter Hall's 1985 production.... more
Scarlett Johansson was left at home in New York after a film studio refused to pay for her bloated demands to attend the Cannes Film Festival to launch Woody Allen's latest movie. Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall, her co-stars in the film 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', soaked up all the glory from crowds as they ascended the fabled red carpet of Cannes
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After a moving revival of St Joan and an effective staging of the caustic but problematic Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion comes to town.... more
Gari Jones's new staging of two rarely performed Beckett short sketches fails to bring out the humour and pathos in the scripts, flirting instead with parody, says Robert Shore.... more
Sir Alan Ayckbourn has launched an attack on the Hollywood invasion of the British stage saying that most film stars could "barely be heard beyond row three".... more
Two of Britain's best-loved actresses are leading our charge for Oscar success. But which one of these queens of stage will get the golden statue? Nick Curtis assesses the form.... more
Fifty-one years after directing the avant-garde play that revolutionised the post-war British stage, Sir Peter Hall returns with a new production of Waiting For Godot. ... more
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