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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Travelling Light (Lyttelton Theatre)

  • 30 January 2012

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

A year in culture: Theatre

  • 12 December 2011

Critics' Choice: The Best of 2011

Hamlet (Young Vic, London)

  • 16 November 2011

Marat/Sade (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford)

  • 07 November 2011

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

Driving Miss Daisy

  • 24 October 2011

James Earl Jones at 80 is not to be missed, writes Andrew Billen.

Grief (Cottesloe Theatre, London)

  • 10 October 2011

Mike Leigh’s postwar parlour play underwhelms Andrew Billen.

The Faith Machine (Royal Court Theatre)

  • 12 September 2011

Andrew Billen finds no subtlety or wit in a play about religion.

Autumn theatre

  • 12 September 2011

Edinburgh Fringe: Fit For Purpose

  • 31 August 2011
  • 1 comment

There's no comedy in an exploration of the immigration process.

Anna Christie (Donmar Warehouse, London WC2)

  • 29 August 2011

Outstanding performances bring this passionate play to life.

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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