‘I cried every day at work – now I am here!’ Spring Awakening’s fresh cast step on stage
Frank Wedekind’s banned 19th-century classic, now a youth rock musical, is back on stage – now with a young cast who came of age in the pandemic
September 2015
From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays
In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?
March 2014
Twelfth Night; Spring Awakening – review
Twelfth Night doesn't quite echo the newly revamped Everyman's sense of swagger, writes Susannah Clapp
Spring Awakening review – 'These teens seem out of time'
Headlong and Anya Reiss's update of the Wedekind sexual discovery play has plenty of swagger but a lack of mordant modern wit, despite canny use of YouTube, writes Lyn Gardner
Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
Kenneth Tynan on Spring Awakening: the sexual revolution's canny precursor
In this extract originally published in the Observer on 12 May 1963, Tynan applauds the play's sexual frankness – sorely needed given the circumstances of the production
February 2014
Lulu: A Murder Ballad – review
The Tiger Lillies meet Lulu: the ultimate fallen woman
May 2011
This week's new theatre
This week's new theatre
Spring Awakening | Chicken Soup With Barley | Knives In Hens | Mr Stink | Tactical Questioning | As The World Tipped | Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead | Eden End
November 2010
Spring Awakening – review
Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind's tale of young sexual angst, still shocks in its modernity a century on, writes Mark Fisher
February 2009
Spring Awakening
Lyric Hammersmith, London W6 A 19th-century play about adolescence makes for an exuberant musical - but where's the dark side, asks Susannah Clapp
June 2007
Tom beats Alan and Arthur to most Tonys as British theatre storms Broadway again
· Stoppard's nine-hour epic wins record haul of awards · Spring Awakening musical triumphs with eight gongs
March 2005
Musik
Arcola, London
March 2002
Pandora's Box
Lulu's her name, trouble's her game
January 2002
Nowhere man
GW Pabst directed Garbo before she was famous and made Louise Brooks an icon. So why was everyone so keen to forget him, asks Tom Dewe Mathews?
April 2001
Nice and sleazy
The Almeida brings a touch of class to vice-ridden King's Cross, says Jonathan Glancey
March 2001
Dangerous liaisons
Manon and Lulu are the original femmes fatales. But are they sexual predators or tragic innocents? As their stories come to the stage once more, Michael Billington investigates
