The Misanthrope, a play about the perils of celebrity and falsity of the media seems the perfect platform for Keira Knightley's West End debut.... more
Thea Sharrock's laboriously organised production, Happy Now?, scores its comic points, but is confounded by imposing a radical design upon a traditionally based comedy.... more
Cabaret, All About my Mother, The Emperor Jones and the last chance to see John Simms's terrific performance in Elling are among the theatrical highlights.... more
Swiss writer Lukas Barfuss's taboo-breaking drama The Sexual Neurosis Of Our Parents has a yukky plot that grows meaner and more cynical by the minute, says Keiron Quirke.... more
Nearly 90 years after its New York premiere Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones still startles with its novelty, timeless political relevance and daring theatricality.... more
Riding high in her career, celebrated theatre director Thea Sharrock tells Siobhan Murphy why she is restaging an uncompromising play on one of London's biggest stages.... more
The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.... more
Daniel Radcliffe's impending striptease dominated the build up to Equus' opening night, but the stylised scene of the horses' destruction impacted harder on Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Cricket legend Imran Khan now dedicates his life to politics and is passionate about Pakistan and the war on terror — so isn’t it time people took him seriously?
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