After a mystery illness and his dramatic withdrawal from Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art last year, Michael Gambon returns to the stage in Krapp’s Last Tape... more
Lord Mandelson has let it be known he is "beyond anger" (one imagines his condition with a thrill) about the striking postal workers. Royal Mail's managing director says their attitude "beggars belief". The chief executive, Adam Crozier, says industrial action is an "appalling and unjustified attack on customers". Huff, puff.... more
When Harry Michell was refused permission to stage Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot in a public lavatory by the playwright's estate he wanted revenge... more
Performers dance with vacuum cleaners and wrestle with lamps in The Terrific Electric, an experimental show investigating the change brought about by the advent of electricity.... more
The Arts Theatre near Leicester Square, which was forced to close two years ago in a row over its lease, is thriving again - and bosses say cheap drinks are the secret of its success.... 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
Five Beckett plays by veteran director Peter Brook and a Rwandan take on the Holocaust are two of the highlights in the Young Vic's new season.... more
Nicholas de Jongh thought Fiona Shaw would be perfect for the role of Winnie in Beckett's Happy Days but her performance at the Lyttelton has sadly proved him wrong.... more
Harold Pinter winds down his amazing dramatic career with a swansong performance in Krapp's Last Tape that will be written up in theatrical history.... 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
Peter Gill usually has a flair for illuminating classic texts, but not here. His 50th anniversary production of Look Back in Anger is nicely acted but lacks in other areas, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
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