National Theatre
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Joie de vivre
Has the National Theatre brought back fun?
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
They’re not laughing now
Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?
A long-term bet we must take
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the show will go on again; it always does
Does drama need the theatre to survive?
I am anticipating watching theatre from home with some trepidation
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
