456 stories by "Mark Lawson"
Minerva, ChichesterJeremy Sams directs his own vivacious translation of Jean Anouilh's smart comedy Continue reading...
The UK has become an experimental studio for risk-averse Broadway " but that shouldn't detract from the great British talent nominated for this year's Tonys Continue reading...
Damian Lewis and John Goodman, in American Buffalo, are the latest Hollywood stars to tread London's boards, in a deal that benefits both theatre and film Continue reading...
Recent announcements at the National, the Garrick and the Old Vic show that casting the management is as important as contracting the actors In theatre companies, as in all organisations, a …
As Stoppard and Shaw plays at the National debate the likelihood of God, Shakespeare's King John is revived in a church and the St Paul's Occupy protests are staged, Mark Lawson asks why the…
From Harvey's six-foot white rabbit to Mike Leigh's hard-partying Abigail, some of the biggest characters around never set foot on stage. Mark Lawson raises a toast to absent friendsWith rev…
In the run-up to 7 May, British TV will become a no-go area for plays relevant to the election. Thankfully, theatre has the courage to provide our fix Continue reading...
Stoppard's The Hard Problem became richer when I read the script, but the playtext of Game lessens the experience of the Almeida's unsettling stagingBuy a programme for Mike Bartlett's new p…
Alan Howard, who has died aged 77, was the quintessential Shakespearian monarch, capable of a vast range of interpretation. But it was his voice was the core of his greatness Obituary: Alan …
Friends suggest that playing Martin Luther King has heightened the actor's sense of public duty and quiet rage Continue reading...
The Europe-raised playwright is hoping for a rapprochement with her American roots with her new play about Thomas Jefferson " but she thinks the founding father has a lot to answer forHaving…
Most productions cut a whole act from Man and Superman. But Ralph Fiennes and director Simon Godwin plan to unleash its full Nietzschean powerAlthough it may be little consolation, Ralph Fie…
With the adaptations of Hilary Mantel's novel for the RSC and the BBC, we have a rare opportunity to compare acting choicesRegular theatregoers accumulate comparisons between actors in class…
The revivals of Cats, Assassins and City of Angels have thrown the spotlight on one of the trickiest aspects of musical theatreBritish theatre listings are rarely short of musical revivals, …
Playwrights of the past are easily forgotten, but thanks to his unique, black-comedy skewering of historical figures, Barnes has found a new champion in James McAvoyWith several generations …
Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge stunned at the Young Vic, Sondheim's Assassins satirised with success, King Charles III did nothing, magnificently, and a startling Anything Goes is ou…
The ingenious ghost story " and GCSE set text " is now the second longest-running play in the history of the West End. So why does it continue to pack audiences in, after 25 years?Although i…
The 30 brief scenes in the writer's new book blur the boundaries between his work for stage and page Continue reading...
G is for The Goat, L is for lizards and U is for umbrella As A Delicate Balance returns to Broadway, dip into our guide to the great American playwright Continue reading...
As his Iron Curtain Trilogy opens in London, the playwright reflects on depicting the last 50 years of British life on the stage Continue reading...
Life with Father, about a sexist patriarch and submissive wife, holds the record for the longest-running non-musical play in New York. Now, 75 years after it premiered, Mark Lawson…
From a re-imagining of The Wild Duck to differing interpretations of The Master Builder, Ibsens plays are challenging source material. The New Penguin Ibsen aims to get to grips with the ori…
Dramatic triptychs from Aeschyluss Oresteia to Rona Munros James plays are expensive to stage and bum-numbing to watch. Do they deliver three times the pleasure? Continue reading...
One Man Two Guvnors is a box office phenomenon, and the man behind it has another five plays on stage this month. Richard Bean talks about legal wrangles, dodgy gags and why success has…
From Maxine Peakes Hamlet to David Suchets Lady Bracknell, cross-casting is all the rage. But sometimes it can be more problematic than enlightening Continue reading...
