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London theatre needs a taste of Midsummer

11.08.09

Edinburgh Theatre: It would be a crime against theatre if London audiences don't get to relish the wonderful distilled essence of Edinburgh in Midsummer.... more

Making a song and dance of Mussorgsky

29.04.09

A gaunt young actor is staggering about the chalked-up floor of a rehearsal room, a vodka bottle to his lips... more

We're in thrall to a higher authority

24.02.09

A hazy Sunday, a crowd held in rapt devotion, four solemn voices coiling into harmonic shapes that could only have been crafted by the Almighty... more

Oh Brothers, where art thou in Delirium?

10.11.08

Audience members will feel many things at the end of this ridiculous take on The Brothers Karamazov but delirium is unlikely to be one of them.... more

In the end, Dostoevsky, too, saw the need for God

30.09.08

You can accuse the Archbishop of Canterbury of many things but at least he has impeccable taste in literature... more

Capturing the big bad Woolf

20.08.08

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

Whishaw caught in portrayal of betrayal

31.07.08

Katie Mitchell's latest production, ...some trace of her, leaves Nicholas de Jongh bemused, confused and deeply unenthused.... more

Inquisitor's Big Question

18.06.08

A play in which an actor playing an actor tells the audience that it's all an act. At times, The Quiz can be infuriating but it's a tantalising and extremely funny show nonetheless.... more

Literate approach to love

27.12.07

Jacques Rivette's latest film, based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais, is easily the wordiest in London at present.... more

Risky gamble fails to pay off

04.06.07

A rarely seen opera, The Gambler shows up the problems of Prokofiev's work and only really takes fire in the last act... more

Diarist moving deeper into insanity

16.10.06

Eric Bogosian's monologue Notes from Underground is a portrait of psychosis, which is great on surface detail, but throws little light on the recesses of a diseased mind.... more

The top five shows opening next week

05.10.06

A nudity-drenched Cabaret, plus the Young Vic's first play after its refit and a new-old Godot are some of the treats in store next week, says Richard Godwin.... more

I was a bard behind bars, says Doherty

03.10.06

Pete Doherty has revealed how poetry kept him sane during his time behind bars. He said he adopted a character inspired by the French poet Paul Verlaine to survive.... more

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