Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis's novel, *American Psycho* follows Wall Street trader and serial killer Patrick ...

STOCKBRIDGE — The first time we see John Merrick in director Eric Hill’s ably crafted production of “ The Elephant Man ” at ...

There’s no more urgent play in London right now than Mark Rosenblatt ... This blistering piece of theatre deals with the fallout of a book review Dahl wrote in 1982, on the eve of the ...

As Robert Icke tackles Oedipus and Alexander Zeldin reinterprets Antigone as The Other Place, managing editor Alex Wood and chief critic Sarah Crompton talk about the ways Greek tragedies speak to our ...

David Benedict has been a daily columnist and theatre editor on the Independent and arts editor of the Observer. He is chief London critic When American Netflix star Natalie Palamides plays her ...

The film is set in 1934 London. "The Critic" is written by Academy ... is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking ...

Two stars! Ian McKellen in the dreary slog ‘The Critic’ (Sean Gleason) The rest is plain melodrama, amped up by the way cinematographer David Higgs turns London into a fog-choked proscenium ...

McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, a grandmaster critic of the 1930s London theatre, whose pitiless adjectives strike fear through the West End. Put bluntly, he is a vicious bastard — but ...

In my decade-long career as a theatre critic, I’ve set foot in almost every performance space in London. Here are the most beautiful ones I’ve found. Been there, done that? Think again ...