David Jays

Theatre

Beauty and the beast

• 28 August 2008

Oscar Wilde's novel is transposed into the vicious world of modern celebrity Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Books

Man/book love

• 15 May 2008

The Library at Night Alberto Manguel Yale University Press, 373pp, £18.99

Society

Out of step with the past

• 27 March 2008

Patchy performers can't obscure the genius of George Balanchine New York City Ballet Coliseum, London WC2

Mollyfied

• 17 September 2001

Theatre - David Jays on a post-gay play where everything's up for sale

Are you being served?

• 02 April 2001

Theatre - David Jays enjoys a play of suppressionism and soft furnishings

Troy story

• 26 February 2001

Theatre - David Jays sits through 13 hours of apocrypha

A Shaw thing

• 29 January 2001

Theatre - David Jays on an actress who has conquered the hardest roles

Culture

Small but perfectly performed

• 18 December 2000

In its decade of ascendancy, this theatre has achieved A-list imprimatur. As it closes its doors for refurbishment, David Jays celebrates the Almeida effect

Missing

• 30 October 2000

Theatre - David Jays on the absence of the Jewish context in British drama

Culture

Wilde disappointment

• 25 September 2000

He was the first modern celebrity, but also the first Irish joke. On the centenary of his death, David Jays asks why this radical dandy was such a Wilde disappointment