Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen has worked as a celebrity interviewer for, successively, The Observer, the Evening Standard and, currently The Times. For his columns, he was awarded reviewer of the year in 2006 Press Gazette Magazine Awards.

Articles by Andrew Billen

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The prude of love

  • 29 October 2009

The erstwhile Victor Meldrew is on fine form

The Power of Yes

  • 15 October 2009

David Hare is brilliant on last year's financial crash

I Bought a Blue Car Today (Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2)

  • 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

Jerusalem

  • 23 July 2009

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

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

  • 28 May 2009

This drama skewers the do-gooding in Africa to compelling but chastening effect

A night at the circus

  • 14 May 2009

The star turns are accomplished, but Beckett’s chilling vision is obscured

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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