Sunday, December 25, 2016
Thank you, Michael Billington, for your timely warning against “the filthiest panto” you’ve ever seen (Julian Clary unleashes a tsunami of smut in eye-popping gag-fest, 22 December). B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
The status quo, where male experience dominates British theatre, will continue as long as the unelected quango, the Arts Council, refuses to challenge this sexual apartheid (Editorial, 15 De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMMonday, December 5, 2016
There is still a pressing need for challenging male dominance in theatre, and we need the Guardian to include the wider view (Editorial, 15 October). Harriet Walter’s plea to artistic dire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
I am surprised by the Globe’s decision to part ways with its artistic director. Chief executive Neil Constable praises Emma Rice for her “mould-breaking” productions but explains that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMMonday, October 24, 2016
Marlowe and Shakespeare were both playwrights (Marlowe finally credited among cast of Bard’s co-writers, 24 October). When first coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigrams, the word had a distin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
The heading of your review of the Globe Theatre’s Imogen, “Sex, drugs and gang war erupt…” (26 September), could just as well be a strapline for a number of Shakespeare’s plays, an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMFriday, September 2, 2016
As a member of the Max Wall Society – known as bricks – I was fascinated to read Michael Billington’s review of The Entertainer (31 August). Max Wall himself played Archie Rice in John…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Live screenings | Northern heathens | Hygiene-obsessed Americans | Swedish vocabulary | DishonoursYour correspondents are too quick to praise live screenings (Letters, 2 August). Live screen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Telephone scams | Kander and Ebb | Clear Skies | Washing your handsYour article about scammers (How a phone call from ‘the bank’ cost an unsuspecting couple their life savings, 30 July) …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMMonday, July 18, 2016
We applaud the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation’s commission of Danuta Kean’s research into opportunities for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) performers in British musical theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
In dismissing the opinions of those he refers to as “luvvies” (The luvvies’ Brexit letter only shows most people vote with their wallets, theguardian.com, 20 May), Simon Jenkins ensure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMSunday, May 29, 2016
The Threepenny Opera at the English National Theatre (Songs for the louche and low-life, 28 May) gave that theatre an unparalleled opportunity to intervene in our public life, as the authors…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Twenty-one years ago teachers and directors began telling the National Theatre that they wanted relevant and challenging new plays for young actors. We responded by launching Connections, ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMFriday, April 22, 2016
Jonathan Bate (Umasked, G2, 21 April) tracks Shakespeare’s storytelling of “the old, old story” back to the “magic, myth and metamorphosis” of Ovid but perhaps there are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMMonday, April 18, 2016
Julia Pascal made reference to Arnold Wesker’s short spell at the London School of Film Technique (Obituary, 14 April). In a letter he sent me in 1968 he announced “the greatest impact c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Nicholas de Jongh is, to say the least, uncharitable in his dismissal of Harold Wilson’s reputation as a liberal reformer on two issues close to Mr de Jongh’s heart (Letters, 14 March).O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Anne Perkins paints a misleading picture of Harold Wilson when describing him as the PM who presided over great liberalising reforms that paved the way for modest decriminalisation of homose…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
I just love these stories from actors who went to public school denying that it helped them in any way to get a job (Working-class actors don’t land the best roles because ‘it’s fashio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
In 1995 I left at the reception desk of the West Yorkshire Playhouse a copy of our son Nat’s poems, The Mountain Man, collected by my husband on Nat’s death at 20 in 1992, in the hope th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, January 15, 2016
My wife and I went to the Almeida Theatre in Islington several years ago. Alan Rickman was in the audience (Obituary, 14 January). At the interval we went to the bar. Rickman walked in and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
Government moves to reduce Short money and to make it harder for trade union members to give subscriptions to the Labour party are blatant gerrymandering (Labour fears £6m funding cris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PMSunday, January 3, 2016
The Guardian suggests that Shakespeare should have one of his less well-known plays produced at Stratford-upon-Avon during this 400th anniversary (This year, more than ever, the play’s the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Rowland Wymer (Letters, 18 December) refers to original sources which would logically lead to Innogen’s protagonist being called Giacomo. Simon Forman, the other source for “misspelling�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMFriday, December 18, 2015
The proposed £278m concert hall (Report, 17 December) is a prima facie case of the metropolitan cultural mafia at work. The problem with the arts in England is there is no concrete pol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PMYour review of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (18 December) reminded me of how Ian Fleming came up with the name. Soldiers in the Far East had to ask for a permission slip, a chitty, to leave …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMThursday, December 17, 2015
The argument that “Imogen” in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a misprint for “Innogen” does not depend solely on Simon Forman’s account of a contemporary performance (Letters, 16 Dece…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
In her review of Cymbeline (12 December), Lyn Gardner refers to the heroine as Innogen, and states that the more common use of Imogen is a misspelling. This theory is based on a 1611 diary e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56PMSunday, December 6, 2015
I am sorry to see that your roundup of the year’s best thrillers (Review, 5 December) makes no mention of Adrian McKinty, whose intelligent, razor sharp thrillers star a deeply flawed Roya…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:05PMThursday, December 3, 2015
Lynne Reid Banks (Letters, 30 November) seems to have forgotten that an adult view of what 12-year-olds should or should not read makes absolutely no difference at all: her own compassionate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34PMMonday, November 23, 2015
Your article about the extraordinary turnaround in the fortunes of Waterstones (21 November) omits to mention another reason why so many of us have returned to shop in the store. Soon after …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMThursday, November 19, 2015
I was horrified by the inference from Jennifer Gale (Letters, 18 November) that cinematic presentations of live plays include close-ups. Why on earth can’t the whole play be seen in the ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM 
