The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Lover/The Collection; The Divine Mrs S – review
Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – Brian Cox upstaged by Patricia Clarkson’s morphine fiend
February 2024
Long Day’s Journey Into Night: a grand masterpiece and an ordinary family drama
Eugene O’Neill’s mighty drama, returning to the West End with Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, has drawn generations of stage greats and casts its spell with a story we can all recognise
April 2023
Brief letters
Touched by a tragic first world war tale
Brief letters: Shot at dawn | Emergency alerts at evensong | A message to Airstrip One | Ofsted’s ‘inadequate’ | Jack Nicholson in Reds
December 2022
Brian Cox to return to the West End in Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The Succession star will play James Tyrone, another patriarch of a dysfunctional family, in Eugene O’Neill’s drama
April 2018
Long Day's Journey Into Night review – O'Neill's bruising classic hits home
George Costigan is magnificent as the patriarch of the fraught Tyrone family, imprisoned in a jail of their own making
March 2018
Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?
Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies
February 2018
The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Captive Queen; Dry Powder – review
Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – Irons and Manville leave you emotionally pulverised
October 2016
Theatre blog
From sci-fi Brontë to Hamlet on the savanna: when classics are relocated
As West Yorkshire Playhouse presents a futuristic take on the 19th-century Villette, here are five shows that reimagine a story in a surprising new setting
September 2016
On my radar
On my radar: Alfred Molina’s cultural highlights
The stage and screen actor on the secret life of Eugene O’Neill, the singer Mayer Hawthorne, All About Eve and his favourite Los Angeles eaterie
July 2016
James Thierrée: 'Baryshnikov told me to get used to pain. It's part of a dancer's life'
As he prepares to take his latest spectacular to the Edinburgh festival, the performer talks about the ‘magic box’ of theatre, listening to frogs’ secrets and playing an acrobatic Ariel for Peter Greenaway
April 2016
Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – all-star cast conjure a visceral O'Neill
Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – volcanic excitement and breakneck pace
March 2016
Long Day's Journey Into Night review – Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville shine with sexual passion and rage
The G2 interview
Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’
February 2016
Hughie review – Forest Whitaker plays for low stakes in slight O'Neill play
The actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O’Neill work
November 2015
Al Pacino: the Godfather of Broadway – in pictures
The Hairy Ape review – Carvel is a man of steel
October 2015
The Hairy Ape review – an expressionist spectacle of caged humanity
Bertie Carvel lends his extraordinary physicality to Eugene O’Neill’s play that reminds us how much 1920s American drama owed to German art
