http://www.newstatesman.com/columns/theatre en http://images.newstatesman.com/users/avatars/.jpg http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ http://www.newstatesman.com/film/2009/11/twelfth-night-love-malvolio http://www.newstatesman.com/film/2009/11/twelfth-night-love-malvolio Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:51:49 GMT Andrew Billen The erstwhile Victor Meldrew is on fine form

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/10/hare-power-stage-sex-theatre http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/10/hare-power-stage-sex-theatre Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:38:24 GMT Andrew Billen David Hare is brilliant on last year's financial crash

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/09/cumming-solo-cabaret-grant-car http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/09/cumming-solo-cabaret-grant-car Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:56:52 GMT Andrew Billen Mr Cumming's solo show feels more than a little me, me, me . . .

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/08/parts-comedy-helen-egypt-play http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/08/parts-comedy-helen-egypt-play Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:40:53 GMT Andrew Billen Three parts comedy, one part tragedy

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/08/young-british-play-kureishi http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/08/young-british-play-kureishi Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:11:13 GMT Andrew Billen Kureishi’s novel about young British Asian men makes a problematic play

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/08/purcell-act-shakespeare http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/08/purcell-act-shakespeare Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:03:59 GMT Rick Jones Purcell’s adaptation of Shakespeare is a triumph of style over substance

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/07/fantasy-tale-echoes-blake http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/07/fantasy-tale-echoes-blake Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:10 GMT Andrew Billen This unmissable state-of-the-nation piece is a fantasy tale with echoes of Blake

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/07/forbidden-broadway-musical http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/07/forbidden-broadway-musical Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:29:42 GMT Andrew Billen This complacent send-up of musicals reveals just how dire most of them are

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/06/love-racine-hughes-phedre http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/06/love-racine-hughes-phedre Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:05 GMT Andrew Billen Racine’s ferocious drama of the human heart in extremis is a gruelling spectacle

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/05/afghanistan-british-plays http://www.newstatesman.com/theatre/2009/05/afghanistan-british-plays Thu, 07 May 2009 11:22:42 GMT Raymond Whitaker Tricycle Theatre's series of plays about the history of foreign intervention in Afghanistan conveys a mixed message

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