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The Power of Yes

  • 15 October 2009

David Hare is brilliant on last year's financial crash

I Bought a Blue Car Today

  • 10 September 2009

Mr Cumming's solo show feels more than a little me, me, me . . .

Helen

  • 20 August 2009

Three parts comedy, one part tragedy

The Black Album

  • 06 August 2009

Kureishi’s novel about young British Asian men makes a problematic play

The Fairy Queen

  • 30 July 2009
  • 1 comment

Purcell’s adaptation of Shakespeare is a triumph of style over substance

Jerusalem

  • 23 July 2009
  • 1 comment

This unmissable state-of-the-nation piece is a fantasy tale with echoes of Blake

Forbidden Broadway

  • 09 July 2009

This complacent send-up of musicals reveals just how dire most of them are

Phèdre

  • 25 June 2009

Racine’s ferocious drama of the human heart in extremis is a gruelling spectacle

Cycle of violence

  • 07 May 2009

Tricycle Theatre's series of plays about the history of foreign intervention in Afghanistan conveys a mixed message

Hacks for the chop

  • 07 May 2009

This pitch-perfect newspaper comedy by Frayn has only improved with age

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
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