Culture: Theatre

Travelling Light (Lyttelton Theatre)

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

Still crazy after all these years

Simon Stephens's new play transports Alfred Jarry to the International Criminal Tribunal.

Hamlet (Young Vic, London)

Theatre review: Washed up on the sands of middle-age

Tamsin Greig steals the show at the Royal Court.

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Grief (Cottesloe Theatre, London)

Mike Leigh’s postwar parlour play underwhelms Andrew Billen.

Pumped by fame

Robert Sheehan is a not wholly convincing playboy.

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Adapt or die

In the battle of the Birdsongs, telly nicks it - just.

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Theatre review: The Ladykillers

Transposed from Ealing to Shaftesbury Avenue, this tale of a heist gone wrong is a joy.

Huis Clos on Whitehall

Politicians could do worse than going to see Sartre's play.

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Critics interview: Abi Morgan