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Twelfth Night is light on laughs

22.10.09

Gregory Doran's production of Twelfth Night, which transfers to London in December, has enchanting moments.... more

Royal reception for The King and I

15.06.09

Even if The King and I doesn't make you want to dance, you’ll certainly hum along happily.... more

Make a date with the Calendar Girls

15.04.09

Calendar Girls is a chance to enjoy displays of prudery, coyness and vulgarity, a mixed cocktail of character-traits that remains forever English.... more

Remarkable Hamlet performance at hours' notice

10.12.08

You would never have guessed from the self-confidence and composure of his performance that Edward Bennett was a stand-in Hamlet.... more

A remarkable, composed performance at a few hours' notice

10.12.08

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Here's a prince for our time

06.08.08

David Tennant is sensational as a manic-depressive and authentic Hamlet but the play is lacking something, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

The King of Cannes

23.05.08

British director Terence Davies is the toast of the Riviera following a screening of his new film, Of Time and the City.... more

FIRST NIGHT: Pure-voiced and girlish, the new Maria lacks passion

04.03.08

Theatre: After Connie Fisher, who leapt to instant stardom in the role of Maria, that would-be nun who wouldn't stop singing, her successor, Summer Strallen, comes as something of an anti-climax ... more

Pure-voiced and girlish, new Maria lacks passion

04.03.08

After Connie Fisher, her successor in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Sound of Music, Summer Strallen, comes as something of an anti-climax, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

There's no ignoring good box office

24.04.07

While there are some problems with On The Town, Nick Kimberley is certain it is a show that will gather momentum.... more

Eloquent puppets and the language of love

27.03.07

Gregory Doran has discovered a way of translating an Elizabethan mythic-fantasy into a puppetry form that is accessible, amusing and eloquent, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

An aimless gloomy Gypsy

19.01.07

Thank heaven for Eileen Atkins, says Nicholas de Jongh. She's the only one who breathes life and black comedy into There Came A Gypsy Riding.... more

Between anarchic rock and a hardline place

20.12.06

Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is holding on in a West End submerged in a sea of musicals, proving that bracing mental exercise for audiences is still permitted on the commercial London stage.... more

A remarkable Maria

16.11.06

Even if critics snarl or sneer at The Sound Of Music their mockery will not stop Jeremy Sams's old-fashioned production from being a mad success, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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