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5 days ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
FeaturesRobert Glenister, here in The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London (2022). Photo: Marc BrennerWhich productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Robert Glenister opts for one of Shakespeare’s heavy hitters, as directed by the RSC’s Terry HandsSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month.
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1 week ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
Rattigan deserves a West End theatreTerence Rattigan and the Duchess Theatre in the West End. Photo: Allan Warren/ShutterstockTheatreland needed change in the 1950s but, in abandoning Terence Rattigan’s plays, babies may have been thrown out with the proverbial bathwater, says David BenedictSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month.
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2 weeks ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
FeaturesMatthew Bourne. Photo: Hugo GlendinningWhich productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Choreographer Matthew Bourne chooses the first London staging of a hit musical from Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule StyneSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month. OR Or subscribe from just £7.99 and get unlimited access to thestage.co.uk.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
OpinionThe annual Profile Awards are a welcome opportunity to recognise the often-overlooked art of lighting design, says David BenedictSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month. OR Or subscribe from just £7.99 and get unlimited access to thestage.co.uk.
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1 month ago | 
variety.com | David Benedict
The biggest, most trenchant laugh on the London stage is nightly cracking up the audience at the West End staging of “Giant” — and it’s a moment indicative of the blissful timing in the writing and the expert acting.
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1 month ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
OpinionRosie Sheehy and Brian Gleeson in The Brightening Air at the Old Vic, London – a mesmerising and refreshingly surprising theatrical production, says David Benedict. Photo: Manuel HarlanToo much commercial theatre is missing the thrill of controlled surprise – Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air is one of the increasingly rare exceptionsSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in.
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1 month ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
FeaturesIan McKellen. Photo: Oliver Rosser/Feast CreativeWhich productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Ian McKellen chooses a Dickens adaptation by David Edgar at the RSCSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month. OR Or subscribe from just £7.99 and get unlimited access to thestage.co.uk. Remember Login
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1 month ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
OpinionIsobel McArthur, Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Christina Gordon, Tori Burgess and Meghan Tyler in Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of). Photo: Matt CrockettFrom Midnight Cowboy to Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of), worrying about how faithful an adaptation is to its source misses the point, says David Benedict – a show should succeed on its own termsSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in.
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2 months ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
FeaturesWhich productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor, director and Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh chooses David Hare’s play Plenty, which changed everything for her Plenty, Bristol Old Vic (1978)I was a year early in sixth form, very depressed, with teenage angst dialled to 11, anorexic, my parents were divorcing, and the only thing that made me happy was doing drama. We had to go to a play and then write about it.
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2 months ago | 
thestage.co.uk | David Benedict
I have, shamefully, not read the novel and despite the existence of umpteen adaptations of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, I’m sorry to say that outside of Helen Edmundson’s stage version and Joe Wright’s film, I have somehow missed them all. I’m especially sad not to have caught Broadway’s 1992’s flop musical – although I’m relieved to learn that, courtesy of an overseas production, its score was preserved on disc. In Japanese.
