Monday, February 26, 2018
The renowned underground theatre company confronts the past and present at home and abroadBudzma! (Cheers!) At a long, food-laden table in a noisy room of Minsk, the capital of Belarus, a to…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AMMonday, January 22, 2018
In his 70th year the actor looks back on Olivier and Gielgud, on the Oscars and his start at Bristol Old VicIn 2016 the Bristol Old Vic turned 250. To blow out the candles, England’s oldes…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Two more versions of Wilkie Collins's thriller on stage and screen join a long rollcallThe Woman in White insists on being told and retold. Wilkie Collins’s much loved thriller is per…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36AMMonday, November 6, 2017
The Scottish actor on the National Theatre staging of Network and going back to Shetland“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to stand for it!” In 1976 American anger about the state of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54AMMonday, October 16, 2017
The actor stars opposite Natalie Dormer in Venus in Fur. Why is he always exploring the dark side?“He has something of Dillane about him.” Thus Patrick Marber on David Oakes. “I rate h…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:04AMMonday, July 24, 2017
The actress summoned to Hollywood who lived to tell the tale, wittilyOlivia Williams’s first film was, (in)famously, seen by almost no one. The Postman, Kevin Costner’s futuristic flop, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:48AMTuesday, June 27, 2017
The makers of quintessentially English musicals on heading back to the Edwardian era for The Wind in the Willows at the PalladiumGeorge Stiles and Anthony Drewe – Stiles and Drewe, as the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PMMonday, May 8, 2017
Mee the sound magician behind 'Enron', 'London Road' and now Yaël Farber's 'Salomé'No one ever went to the theatre for the sound design. Indeed, only the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
The National Theatre's former boss is wonderfully insightful about everything but himselfAfter the first preview of Mike Leigh’s play Two Thousand Years at the National Theatre, a you…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:06PMSaturday, April 8, 2017
The actor played pillars of the establishment, but there was much more to him than that It is the fate of a certain type of well-spoken classically trained actor to wear the livery of the En…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18AMMonday, February 13, 2017
He's George to Imelda's Martha, Varys in 'Game of Thrones', and an acting genius Some know him only as Lord Varys the scheming eunuch, spymaster to the king of the Seven …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:31AMThursday, February 9, 2017
His great novel 'Beware of Pity' is being staged at the Barbican. Who was Zweig, and the woman with whom he committed suicide?On 23 February 1942 at half past four in the afternoon…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:42AMMonday, February 6, 2017
Cumberbatch's queen, Mark Strong's guilty secret, now she's pocket Olivia to Tamsin Greig's MalvoliaIn London and New York, Phoebe Fox (b. 1987) is known to theatregoers …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18AMMonday, January 9, 2017
Celebrating the great British actress who rules the waves (and the Golden Globes)It was a good night for British thespians at the 2016 Golden Globes. The stars of The Night Manager – Tom H…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:06AMThursday, December 8, 2016
Jonathan Larson died before his musical struck gold. Was there more to come?On January 25 1996, after Rent's final dress rehearsal at the off-off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop, its comp…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:12AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The gifted master of ceremonies who is bringing his double bill of Shakespearean comedy to the West End When Shakespeare visits the bearpit of the West End, it is usually in the company of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:12AMSunday, December 4, 2016
The great American playwright, back in the West End with 'Buried Child', spent three formative years in London. Those who were there rememberSam Shepard came to live in London in 1…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:06AM 
