Terence Rattigan

Rattigan’s films are as important as his plays

9 August 2025 9:00 am

A campaign is under way to rename the West End’s Duchess Theatre after the playwright Terence Rattigan. Supported as it…

Magnificent: The Deep Blue Sea, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, reviewed

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Richard Bean appears to be Hampstead Theatre’s in-house dramatist, and his new effort, House of Games, is based on a…

Closing time

28 March 2020 9:00 am

War and plague have menaced theatres before, but rarely on this scale, says Lloyd Evans

Judi Dench (Paulina) and Kenneth Branagh (Leontes) in ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Winter wonderland

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Kenneth Branagh opens his West End tenancy with Shakespeare’s inexplicably popular The Winter’s Tale. We start in Sicily where Leontes…

High life

2 November 2013 9:00 am

New York Hot money from China, India, Russia and Singapore is pouring into London; hotter money from the same countries…