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Benedict Andrews

May 2024

  • Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar facing each other on stage

    The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

  • Nina Hoss dancing on stage in The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar

    The Cherry Orchard review – Benedict Andrews brings Chekhov bang up to date

May 2020

  • Gillian Anderson

    Gillian Anderson on stage – in pictures

  • Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

    Lockdown culture
    Gillian Anderson on A Streetcar Named Desire: 'I was hanging on to reality by a thread'

February 2018

  • David Lan View from the Bridge (with Mark Strong) Three Sisters (Benedict Andrews directed) Sweet Nothings (in 2010) Scottsboro Boys (2013)

    How the Young Vic's David Lan dared to put the world centre-stage

    Lan, who ran the theatre for 18 years, reached out to bold, dynamic directors from across the globe – and they repaid him with spectacular shows

July 2017

  • ‘The stage equivalent of a radio ballad’: the cast of Girl From the North Country has ‘no weak link’ at the Old Vic

    Girl from the North Country; Mosquitoes; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – bringing it all back home

    Conor McPherson weaves magic with Bob Dylan’s songs, Olivias Colman and Williams ignite Lucy Kirkwood’s new play, and Sienna Miller’s Cat fails to sizzle
  • Jack O’Connell and Sienna Miller in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Benedict Andrews, at the Apollo theatre, London

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Sienna Miller and Jack O'Connell rattle their gilded cage

    Apollo, London
    Benedict Andrews’s radical update of the classic delivers emotional intensity shot through with humour – and a blistering performance by Jack O’Connell
  • Benedict Andrews and his productions Caligula, Three Sisters, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Benedict Andrews' full-throttle theatre: 'I want to bother you in your dreams'

    As he directs Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell in a sizzling Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Australian discusses waging war on the old guard, his obsession with desire and why he’s inspired by the ‘visceral violence’ of Francis Bacon

June 2017

  • Clockwise from top left … Ink; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Nina Hoss; Girl from the North Country; and The Tempest.

    Summer arts preview 2017
    Summer 2017's essential theatre: from the rise of Murdoch's Sun to Dylan's dustbowl blues

    The Kids Company inquiry becomes a musical, Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams star as sisters, Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell hit the roof and rhinoceroses rampage through Edinburgh

September 2016

  • ‘Una is a character and a story that fails to engage and the argument for its existence as a film is a sadly unsuccessful one’ ... Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn in Una.

    Una review – Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn child abuse drama is stagey disappointment

    A two-hander about a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her as a child fails to deliver on its intriguing promise

June 2016

  • (left) Jonathan Church; (middle) Andrew Upton; (right) Cate Blanchett

    Stage in strife: where to next for Sydney Theatre Company?

    Steve Dow
    Australia’s leading theatre company has been thrown into turmoil after the premature departure of artistic director Jonathan Church. Can it be saved?

May 2016

  • Streetcar - Production-174

    A Streetcar Named Desire review – Gillian Anderson haunts in vital staging

    Benedict Andrews’ poignant new staging of Tennessee Williams’s play, imported from London, feels utterly contemporary

February 2016

  • The Maids

    'They looked like such good girls': the mystery of Genet's murderous Maids

    Unwomanly monsters, revolutionaries or worms who turned? As Jean Genet’s classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer’s wife and daughter, still has the power to perplex

October 2015

  • A Streetcar Named Desire at Curve

    A Streetcar Named Desire review – derailed by gabbling and gothic excess

    Tennessee Williams’s drama of faded dreams is told with a youthful cast, including Dakota Blue Richards. It’s just a shame you can’t hear them

September 2015

  • Australian theatre and opera director Benedict Andrews, photographed in 2015.

    Benedict Andrews returns to Australia with new play Gloria

    The Australian writer and director on the allure of the Sydney stage, directing his first feature film and why it toughens him up to live in Iceland

August 2015

  • Cate Blanchett as Yelena and Richard Roxburgh as Vanya in Sydney Theatre Company’s Uncle Vanya.

    Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh: two decades on stage for the Sydney Theatre Company – in pictures

    As the pair team up once more for The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov’s first play by outgoing STC artistic director Andrew Upton, we look back at Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh’s years on stage for the company

June 2015

  • Ben Foster (Stanley Kowalski) and Gillian Anderson (Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire

    Gillian Anderson to take A Streetcar Named Desire to New York

    After her acclaimed performance as Blanche in London, Anderson will reunite with co-stars Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby for a New York production of A Streetcar Named Desire

February 2015

  • Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois

    Young Vic short films
    Gillian Anderson goes back to Blanche for prequel to A Streetcar Named Desire

  • 140x84 trailpic for The Departure behind the scenes with Gillian Anderson

    Young Vic short films
    Tennessee waltz: Gillian Anderson on A Streetcar Named Desire – video

December 2014

  • Gillian Anderson

    The Observer's faces of 2014
    Gillian Anderson: ‘Comedy doesn’t often come my way. I don’t know what I need to do to prove I can be funny’

    She was ‘predatory and vulnerable’ on stage as Blanche Dubois, ‘coolly assertive’ on our screens as DSI Stella Gibson – and still found time to publish a novel, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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