Return to: Home | Columns

Andrew Billen

Theatre

Andrew Billen follows the good and the bad in British theatre

Articles in Theatre

Results 1 to 10 of 326

Travelling Light (Lyttelton Theatre)

  • 30 January 2012

Andrew Billen fails to be charmed by a film fantasy with no roots in reality.

Hamlet (Young Vic, London)

  • 16 November 2011

Beethoven: the Symphonies (Barbican, London)

  • 07 November 2011

Alexandra Coghlan revels in a ferocious tribute to Beethoven.

Marat/Sade (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford)

  • 07 November 2011

Andrew Billen is unmoved by a play that labours too hard to shock.

Grief (Cottesloe Theatre, London)

  • 10 October 2011

Mike Leigh’s postwar parlour play underwhelms Andrew Billen.

The Book of Mormon

  • 22 August 2011

Shop around in New York and you’ll find satirical gems, writes Gina Allum.

Richard III

  • 01 August 2011
  • 1 comment

For Andrew Billen, this Shakespeare production is the event of the year.

The Merchant of Venice

  • 18 July 2011

Shakespeare, transposed to a glitzy Las Vegas.

Betrayal

  • 27 June 2011

This play is Pinterism by stealth.

A Delicate Balance

  • 09 June 2011
  • 1 comment

Some things are best left unsaid - as these two plays prove.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
NewStatesman

Newsletter!
Enter your email address here to receive updates from the team
chronicle of protest
Vote!

Can the UK achieve it’s commitment to carbon reduction targets by 2020?

Suggest a question

View comments

© New Statesman 1913 - 2010