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...confidently check your brains in at the cloakroom and sit back expecting a certain end-of-term laxity on the artistic front. But not at the National Theatre where, if anything, the creative excellence has tended to be intensified and the...

In this article: Nation, His Dark Materials, South Pacific, Relativism, Coram Boy, War Horse, and Mark Ravenhill

...of my boyhood were so magnificent that I can't imagine them bettered. On that latter ground, I am unnerved to learn that the National Theatre is reviving Boucicault's farce London Assurance next year. Another sublime memory of my...

In this article: Twelfth Night, London Assurance, Troilus and Cressida, Dion Boucicault, Nicholas Hytner, Simon Russell Beale, and Donald Sinden

...sad-eyed Hogg says, huddled next to an outdoor heater on the cold autumnal patio of a South Bank cafe (he is rehearsing a play near by at the National Theatre). "Or maybe it's just because I'm quite happy to take risks and to do things that...

In this article: Princess Leia, National Theatre, Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, and Sheffield

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In this article: London, WH Auden, National Theatre, Benjamin Britten, Richard Griffiths, Alan Bennett, The History Boys, and National Theatre

The Habit of Art at the National Theatre, review Age has failed to wither Alan Bennett's powers in the deeply and unexpectedly moving The Habit of Art at the National Theatre. Rating: * * * * * Alex Jennings and Richard Griffiths in The...

In this article: Benjamin Britten, Alan Bennett, National Theatre, Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, The History Boys, Death in Venice, and W H Auden

...into the Eighties school with its clever Oxbridge class and their maverick teacher in The History Boys, the mega-hit that earned the National Theatre a cool GBP 5 million, and now, in his hotly anticipated and hilariously provocative new...

In this article: W.H. Auden, Alan Bennett, Benjamin Britten, Russell Harty, Nicholas Hytner, Richard Griffiths, Humphrey Carpenter, National Theatre, Death in Venice, and Thomas Mann

...time to rest." Both Griffiths and Hytner are reunited from Bennett's last original play, The History Boys, that also premiered at the Lyttelton Theatre in 2004, before transferring to Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre in 2006. The play was also...

In this article: Richard Griffiths, Alan Bennett, Nicholas Hytner, WH Auden, Benjamin Britten, National Theatre, The History Boys, Michael Gambon, and Frances de la Tour

London's National Theatre has announced a slate of four new productions to open between January and March 2010, including the return of Simon Russell Beale, Richard Briers and Fiona Shaw to the venue in a new production of Dion Boucicault's...

In this article: Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, London Assurance, National Theatre, London, Richard Briers, Dion Boucicault, and The Cherry Orchard

A recommendation to see Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class at the National Theatre would be qualified by some unshakeable misgivings about how the play portrays the relationship between Polish Catholics and Jews. David Cameron has been told...

In this article: Jedwabne, National Theatre, Tories, Michal Kaminski, Neighbors, Poland, Second World War, David Aaronovitch, Jan T Gross, and David Cameron

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Peter Needham was associated for many years with the National Theatre and especially with historic productions by Sir Peter Hall. Needham had a wonderful ability to adapt to the style of...

In this article: Peter Hall, Tamburlaine, National Theatre, Hamlet, Cheek by Jowl, Touchstone, The Romans in Britain, and Albert Finney