Book clinic: which authors can help me come to terms with getting older?
Novelist Deborah Moggach recommends writers who confront the passing of the years, from John Updike to Virginia Ironside
December 2017
'A good traitor': the extraordinary life of George Blake, the spy who went into the cold
Cell Mates review – British spy's betrayal remains wrapped in Russian riddle
April 2015
Dahling, you were divine: religion on the stage
As Stoppard and Shaw plays at the National debate the likelihood of God, Shakespeare’s King John is revived in a church and the St Paul’s Occupy protests are staged, Mark Lawson asks why the Bible is box office
June 2014
Letter: Rik Mayall's courage in Cell Mates
Sam Dastor writes: I acted with Rik Mayall in the ill-fated production of Simon Gray's Cell Mates
In the Vale of Health review – Simon Gray's marathon of indecision
These riffs on the story of Japes come across as a writing exercise but receive fine performances from a cast including Gethin Anthony, writes Lyn Gardner
Antony and Cleopatra; Bakersfield Mist; In the Vale of Health: Michael – review
The Globe makes a fine romance out of Antony and Cleopatra, but a play about art offers no fresh perspectives, writes Kate Kellaway
May 2014
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Paying to play: the rise and risks of audience participation
From Privacy to Eat Pray Laugh, getting theatregoers on stage is growing in popularity. Does participation always add value to a theatre production, asks Mark Lawson, or can it be a laborious distraction?
April 2014
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Simon Gray and the art of rewriting
For Gray, the curtain never properly fell: forever rearranging his own plays, he had an impressive fluidity of imagination, writes Mark Lawson
February 2014
Three unseen Simon Gray plays to be performed with revival of Japes
Hampstead theatre to stage Gray's hit with three unperformed plays exploring different outcomes for Japes characters
February 2013
Quartermaine's Terms – review
Rowan Atkinson is superb as the still centre of Simon Gray's tragicomedy, writes Susannah Clapp
January 2013
Theatre quiz – test your knowledge of playwright Simon Gray
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Waiting in the wings: when off-stage characters take over
Theatre blog
Critics on screen – a YouTube roundup
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Who'd have a career as a playwright?
September 2012
Stephen Fry returns to London stage 17 years after abandoning Cell Mates
Actor and author to appear as Malvolio in all-male Twelfth Night, initially at Shakespeare's Globe then transferring to West End
November 2011
Theatre blog
Who needs critics? Why you do, Mr Sondheim
Michael Billington: While I understand the great composer's aversion to reviewers, what creative spirit wants their work to be met with silence?
September 2011
Dominic West and Clarke Peters: 'We love each other's company' | Interview
Dominic West and Clarke Peters first met on the set of the Baltimore crime series The Wire. Now they're back together to star in Daniel Evans's production of Othello in Sheffield, writes Andrew Anthony
June 2011
Government Inspector; Chicken Soup with Barley; Butley – reviews
