National Theatre anniversary: A spooky but splendid evening with 50 years of theatre's best
Anniversary celebrations can be self-indulgent, long-winded affairs, but the National Theatre's 50th birthday bash " broadcast live from the Olivier on BBC2 on Saturday night " was a marvel of gracefulness, pace and profound yet humorous and lightly-worn pride in a half century of extraordinary achievement. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the evening was also a logistical triumph, a seamless flow of rare archive footage…