Jez Butterworth’s bold, brilliant Jerusalem wouldn’t be written today
Then there is Johnny himself. He is feckless, deceitful, deeply dodgy, but Christ, I rooted for him throughout: yearning for him to have a proper relationship with…
Jez Butterworth’s bold, brilliant Jerusalem wouldn’t be written today
Then there is Johnny himself. He is feckless, deceitful, deeply dodgy, but Christ, I rooted for him throughout: yearning for him to have a proper relationship with…
The 47th, Old Vic, review: Bertie Carvel’s perfect Trump impression can’t save this superficial play
Rory Bremner does a wicked Donald Trump impression, but he has nothing on Bertie Carvel. The chameleonic 44-year-old British actor, who stole the show as Miss Trunchball…
Secrets of the stage door: from Royal mix-ups to Dennis Waterman’s dressing room bar
The tradition of the “stage-door johnny” – typically men who hang about stage door with dubious intent towards a show’s stars – still lingers. Nevertheless, keepers have…
A Number, Old Vic, review: cloning-drama revival that feels surplus to requirements
Is Caryl Churchill’s super-clever 2002 cloning drama at risk of becoming the Educating Rita of the 21st-century stage? Willy Russell’s successful two-hander of 1980, about a bibulous…
By vetoing the word ‘Brits’, surely the British Council has just cancelled itself
The British Council would like to cancel the word ‘Brits’. And it’s tempting to stop the column there. Make this my shortest piece of the year, and…
A Christmas Carol, review: Stephen Mangan is an entertaining grump as a Scrooge with daddy issues
It can certainly be said of the Old Vic that they know how to do Christmas. Matthew Warchus’s Dickensian charmer, returning for a fifth year, is an…