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The Faith Machine, Royal Court - review

01.09.11
The Faith Machine is a flawed if admirably ambitious offering. Covering a period from 1998 to 2011, and switching from Britain and America to a Greek island, it's a ruminative piece... more

Fans of Ibsen should see Emperor and Galilean

16.06.11
Uncut, Emperor and Galilean could be as long as eight hours; here, in a new version by Ben Power, it runs for slightly more than three... more

I can't tip my hat to this Prince of Homburg

28.07.10
The Prince of Homburg is a brave choice for the Donmar Warehouse’s summer offering.... more

Crucial spirit is lacking in elegant tale of lost love

27.01.09
Ian McDiarmid’s misguided stage adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s poignant novel Be Near Me at the Donmar Warehouse is greatly diminished by cutting out crucial figures from the book.... more

Grandage, the one-man hit machine

11.12.08
After the triumphant opening of his Twelfth Night last night, the Donmar’s artistic director tells how the play has been as good as therapy for him... more

Show must go on despite star’s heart scare

24.10.08
Actor Ian McDiarmid insisted on finishing his performance in a West End play despite suffering a suspected heart attack... more

Pirandello's sex, lies and videotape

16.09.08
Six Characters in Search of an Author has been re‑created for a world eager to turn a blind eye to television's blurring of the lines between reality and illusion. ... more

Theatre doors shut as musicals and credit crunch take hold

01.08.08
Five leading West End theatres are in darkness amid fears that traditional plays are being squeezed out of theatreland by the economic downturn and an excess of musicals... more

Pictured: Lindsay Duncan as Margaret Thatcher in new TV series

31.07.08
Lindsay Duncan appears to have captured the likeness of Lady Thatcher in the first pictures from the new BBC drama about her.... more

Six Characters In Search Of An Author: An audience in search of a play

10.07.08
A play littered with gimmicky cliches, and no exception says Quentin Letts. ... more

New light in dark places

09.07.08
Rupert Goold now works his illuminating magic upon Luigi Pirandello's intimidatingly cerebral Six Characters in Search of an Author.... more

Royal takes on Old Vic with in-house company

09.07.07
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is re-launching itself as a West End rival to Kevin Spacey's Old Vic, establishing an in-house company to produce full seasons.... more

Chip off the old block

22.05.07
Rafe Spall - son of Timothy - talks to Claire Allfree about his latest role at the Royal Court and why he loves London, and its theatre.... more

Attenborough shaking up Almeida audience

15.05.07
The Islington theatre has always been a magnet for the chattering classes, but director Michael Attenborough is aiming his latest production at a new public.... more

A winter's betrayal

21.02.07
Michael Grandage's revival of the great Ibsen drama, John Gabriel Borkman, is anaemic and miscast, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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