The House of Bernarda Alba, National Theatre, review: a chilling, expletive-filled take on the evergreen Lorca classic
Harriet Walter is formidable as the icy matriarch at the centre of a play staged here as a horror show of the mind
Harriet Walter is formidable as the icy matriarch at the centre of a play staged here as a horror show of the mind
The Irish novelist talks about his homeland, his cancer diagnosis and his new beginning
Traditionally, the Lyric Hammersmith is one of our leading purveyors of panto - and this joyous production marks a return to form
As he makes a rare appearance on the British stage, the actor talks alpha males, his hellraising father and ‘humanising’ a dying George VI
Whether pretending to ride a horse or bellowing through a foghorn, the talented and mesmerising Homeland star proved impossible to pin down
Classical music’s erstwhile bad boy on the decline of the BBC, ‘sheep politics’ and why Mozart is ‘for the bourgeosie’
Yolanda Kettle shines as Diana in Jonathan Maitland's intelligent but limited play about the now discredited Panorama interview
Theatres across the UK have been temporarily closed after cheap concrete was found within their buildings. Will they survive the winter?
Our greatest living Shakespearean finally takes on Shakespeare's greatest role in a pared-down staging that doesn't quite do him justice
In Justin Torres’s riddling new novel, a man tells his dying lover about the forgotten activist Jan Gay – a story woven into the lover’s own
The National's smash-hit play gets a seamless West End transfer with the terrific Joseph Fiennes reprising his role as Gareth Southgate
The Conversations with Friends actress is a revelation – but the Almeida's staging doesn't make the case for reviving this now-clichéd play
The nation’s favourite gardener finds himself increasingly at odds with the modern social-media-driven world around him
As her superb book – inspired by a cricketer who murdered his parents – is reissued, Brooke talks about her extraordinary life
Jonathan Lynn’s final outing of his great sitcom removes the political context, and therefore much of the stuffing
Fiennes and James Graham, star and writer of Dear England, on their ode to football manager Gareth Southgate