On Theatre
Radio cashes in on theatre’s loss
Radio drama is prone to over-signalling regional differences, says Anne McElvoy
A tasty tester for a better year
The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship
Carving out a new genre
Digital theatre is now beginning to offer stalls-starved audiences the kind of quality work they would have queued to see live
Smart work from the Old Vic
The Old Vic shows the way
A playwright who aims big
Anne McElvoy on writers and players who can transfer skills to the small screen from the big stage
Waiting for – anything
Krapp’s last tape might these days be a collection of WhatsApps and stored Instagram images, muses Anne McElvoy
A long-term bet we must take
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the show will go on again; it always does
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
Online drama can be a hit
Some of the shortcomings of the theatre turn to benefits in digital translation
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
