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George Bernard Shaw

June 2024

  • My Fair Lady.

    My Fair Lady review – an abso-bloomin’-lutely loverly musical

  • Katie Bird (Eliza Doolittle) in My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady review – comedy and chemistry light up Opera North’s musical-theatre triumph

September 2023

  • Patsy Ferran as Eliza Doolittle and Bertie Carvel as Henry Higgins in Pygmalion at the Old Vic.

    Pygmalion review – Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel don’t find play’s heart

  • Class, cash, identity and infidelity … Susan Wokoma, left, and Alexandra Roach rehearse Never Have I Ever.

    ‘Make them laugh – or they’ll kill you’: my riotous play about a dangerous drinking game

August 2023

  • Patsy Ferran

    The rise of actor Patsy Ferran: ‘I’m a bit of a duck: calm on the surface…’

    She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre critic, an early champion, about her next move

July 2023

  • Gertrude Robins, pictured in 1911: she depicted women’s often limited choices between second-rate marriages and independence.

    Lost plays of Gertrude Robins, Bernard Shaw rival, to be revived a century on

    Powerful dramas that speak to today’s audiences, retrieved after British Library discovery, will be performed in London next month

January 2023

  • Ayesha Dharker, Adjoa Andoh and Leila Farzad in Richard II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2019.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Richard II, All of Us and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl, a festival of mime and a rock’n’roll panto

November 2022

  • Arms and the Man taken on the 18th November 2022 at the Orange Three Theatre

    Arms and the Man review – Shaw’s women show their steel

  • Caroline Quentin as Kitty Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession at Theatre Royal, Bath

    Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Caroline Quentin’s bewitching madam

May 2022

  • Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle with the company of My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady review – perfectly elegant, ever so sedate

    Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins are back in a time capsule of nice frocks, great tunes and comic bickering – but it’s solid not spectacular

August 2021

  • Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in the film version of of My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

    Brief letters
    Ascot scene in Pygmalion? Not bloody likely!

    Letters: My Fair Lady | Village incomers | Jeffrey Steele | Greenham Common | Ian Botham

June 2021

  • Green tea glass cup with bag, isolated on white background

    Brief letters
    Namaste and a nice cup of tea without milk

    Brief letters: Letter writers’ ages | Guardian readers’ longevity | Elbow bumps | Black tea | Pants

May 2021

  • the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective rehearse at Wigmore Hall for a summer concert in 2020.

    Sexual congress, cigarettes and David Bowie: the Wigmore Hall’s hidden history

    The world famous London concert hall celebrates its 120th birthday today. Its artistic director picks 12 of the hall’s greatest – and most unexpected – moments
  • George Bernard Shaw and his wife, Charlotte, at their home in London, circa 1905.

    His fair lady: how George Bernard Shaw’s wife played a vital role in his masterworks

    Charlotte’s influence has been downplayed, says a new book on how women are written out of history
  • A heightened style that hits every joke ... Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Joe Bolland in Overruled, part of Shaw Shorts.

    Reopening culture
    Shaw Shorts review – a double dose of delightful comedy

    Two plays explore George Bernard Shaw’s questioning of social values, directed by Paul Miller as a pointer towards Pinter

September 2020

  • Eric Bentley was brought up in Bolton, Greater Manchester, but became a US citizen

    Eric Bentley obituary

  • Siegfried at Oper Leipzig … Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music revisits the composer’s political beliefs.

    Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?

July 2020

  • Barbara Jefford in 2005.

    You name it, she's played it: the sublime classical actor Barbara Jefford

    She has given unforgettable performances in Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw over her extraordinary 70-year career. Where’s this great actor’s damehood?

November 2019

  • Buoyantly alive … Martin Hutson as Morell and Claire Lams as Candida.

    Candida review – Shaw's comedy of fizzing words and extreme passion

    This production of Shaw’s remarkable play about a poet and a priest in love with the same woman induces giddy delight

October 2019

  • Australian author, critic, broadcaster and poet Clive James, sat next to the maple tree that inspired his poem Japanese Maple in his garden at home in Cambridge, September 2015. Photo by Alicia Canter Commissioned for Guardian Weekend

    Books that made me
    Clive James: ‘The most overrated books almost all emerged from a single genre – magic realism’

    The author, critic and poet on reading Biggles as a child and his admiration of Philip Larkin
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