A leading literary institution has been accused of promoting an “anti-intellectual conspiracy theory” with an event exploring claims that Shakespeare may have been a woman. A debate has “long raged” over whether Britain’s greatest playwright wrote all 38 plays attributed to him, with comedy troupe Monty Python once joking that “a 1970s suburban husband and […]
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In the ten years since Brian Cox last appeared on the London stage, he has “supercharged his fame”, said Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph – thanks to his TV role as Logan Roy, the domineering paterfamilias in Succession. It is apt, then, that he has now taken on “one of the mightiest father figures in […]
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It pains me to report that in a London theatre, “a work of art is being desecrated”, said Houman Barekat in The New York Times. Opening Night is a stage musical adaptation of John Cassavetes’ “stylish” 1977 film, a psychological drama about a troubled Broadway actress – and it is a travesty. The production, from […]
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