For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Theatre

Libby Purves

Lifting the Curtain

Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre

By Nicholas Hytner

April 2017 Issue

Benedict Nightingale

All the World’s a Stage

Hamlet: Globe to Globe

By Dominic Dromgoole

November 1995 Issue

Ned Sherrin

Should Carry a Health Warning

Should Carry a Health Warning

By Philip Hoare

November 2016 Issue

Norma Clarke

Sir Novelty Back in Fashion

Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber

By Elaine M McGirr

November 1979 Issue

E. M. Valk

Shakespeare’s Realism and the Gallery

September 1988 Issue

Colin Wilson

Shy, But Not Cock-Shaw

Bernard Shaw: The Search for Love, 1856–1898

By Michael Holroyd

October 1982 Issue

Sandy Wilson

‘Dad’s Renaissance’

The Noel Coward Diaries

By Graham Payn & Sheridan Morley (edd)

Coward, the Playwright

By John Lahr

October 1981 Issue

Colin Wilson

Priestley

J B Priestley, The Last of the Sages

By John Atkins

December 1981 Issue

John Lahr

Baptism in Ire

A Better Class of Person

By John Osborne

August 1984 Issue

Emrys Jones

The Tragic Idea

Titus Andronicus

By Eugene M Waith (ed)

Julius Caesar

By Arthur Humphreys (ed)

July 1984 Issue

Antony Beevor

Cutting Edge

Federico Garcia Lorca

By Reed Anderson

December 1984 Issue

Richard Curtis

A Fab Musical

The Hired Man

By Melvyn Bragg

March 1985 Issue

John Lahr

Tramp, Gentleman & Poet

Chaplin: His Life and Art

By David Robinson

October 2015 Issue

Christopher Bray

‘Sober people, they’re not for me’

Peter O’Toole: The Definitive Biography

By Robert Sellers

Peter Levi

Something Useful in the New Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare

By Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (edd)

September 2015 Issue

Valerie Grove

‘Crisp as a Celery Stick’

Maggie Smith: A Biography

By Michael Coveney

June 2003 Issue

Sheridan Morley

Beyond Our Ken

Kenneth Tynan: A Life

By Dominic Shellard

October 2003 Issue

Richard Gray

The Private Life of an American Dreamer

Arthur Miller: A Life

By Martin Gottfried

April 2015 Issue

Christopher Bray

Singing for Their Supper

We’ll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart

By Dominic Symonds

April 2004 Issue

Valerie Grove

Still Lighting Up

The Smoking Diaries

By Simon Gray