By Tessa Nolan When Kenneth Branagh strode onto the stage of Wyndham’s Theatre on 21 October 2023, dressed in animal skins and wielding a dagger…
By Sara Bright For six decades, Sir Ian McKellen has inhabited virtually every major male role in the Shakespearean canon – Richard III, King Lear,…
By Sara Bright George Orwell – born Eric Arthur Blair, the man who became the legendary George Orwell – wrote 1984 as the final statement…
By Sara Bright There is a distinct, heavy hum that settles over the Olivier Theatre just before the house lights go down. It is a…
By Sara Bright One hundred and forty-five years after her birth in a St Petersburg barracks hospital, Anna Pavlova remains ballet’s most persuasive argument that…
By Sara Bright Ben Platt is coming to London. It’s happening in July. But he isn’t doing the Palladium. He isn’t taking over the Adelphi…
By Sara Bright So, The Traitors is coming to the theatre. I know. My first reaction was an eye roll too. The announcement dropped this…
By Tessa Nolan I drove up to the Lake District expecting rain. I got it, of course. That relentless, misty drizzle that seems to seep…
By Sara Bright There is a specific kind of theatre that usually makes me break out in hives. You know the sort. It arrives with…
By Tessa Nolan You know, there’s a specific kind of smugness that comes with being a critic. It’s not pretty, I admit that. But when…