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Christopher Oram RSS feedRachel Weisz mesmerizes in magical Streetcar Named Desire
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This production has both realism and magic, and makes A Streetcar Named Desire seem a resonantly modern tragedy.2009-07-28T23:00:00ZNo denying strength of Jude Law's Hamlet
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Jude Law's is not a funny Hamlet, but he possesses both self-lacerating candour and romantic dash.2009-06-03T23:00:00ZSex, drugs and frocks for de Sade
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Few more weird or perverse straight plays than Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade can have hit the staid West End stage this century.2009-03-19T00:00:00ZForbidden lust in A View From the Bridge
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Lindsay Posner's menacing production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge provides a shocking, emotional dynamic.2009-02-06T00:00:00ZDrag race for the Olivier awards
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Drag-queen musical La Cage aux Folles leads the charge at this year's Olivier theatre awards2009-02-03T08:58:16ZGrandage, the one-man hit machine
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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 him2008-12-11T09:06:48ZBranagh leads Ivanov invasion
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Not for many years has there been a more exciting invasion of London's commercial theatre world than Ivanov's launch in triumph by Michael Grandage.2008-09-17T23:00:00ZThe man with the Midas touch
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Michael Grandage has transformed the Donmar into a theatrical powerhouse. Now he explains why he's offering Dench, Law and Branagh in the West End for only a tenner.2008-08-19T10:52:03ZFor he's a jolly good Othello
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Chiwetel Ejiofor steals the show, offering a riveting, psychological diagnosis of Othello as a black African outsider in a white world.2007-12-05T00:00:00ZThe fall of a high-flying bird
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Trevor Nunn's production of The Seagull is hampered by monotonous langour, conceptual vagueness and melodramatic pointing.2007-11-28T00:00:00ZRomola's Nina is a revelation
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Trevor Nunn scores a direct hit with his production of Checkov's The Seagull, which owes much of its devastating impact to Romola Garai who stars as would-be actress Nina.2007-05-31T23:00:00ZNunn's Lear arrives, but is hardly worth the wait
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Ian McKellen's performance as King Lear in Trevor Nunn's gaudy production keeps you on the edge of your seat but is rarely moving, says Nicholas de Jongh.2007-05-31T23:00:00ZA most seductive Don Juan
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Rhys Ifans stars in the title role in Patrick Marber's Don Juan In Soho, which gives the worst sex-addict in theatrical history a ravishing, thoroughly modern make-over.2006-12-07T00:00:00ZKristin will hand out coveted theatre award
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Kristin Scott Thomas will present the statuette for best actor at the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel on Monday.2006-11-22T14:48:07ZGrandage just can't play it safe
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Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.2006-08-25T15:45:32ZDebut lacks song and dance
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Patrick Swayze's legions of fans will no doubt have the time of their lives seeing him in the flesh in Guys and Dolls, but lovers of musical theatre are unlikely to be impressed.2006-08-07T23:00:00Z