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Friedrich Schiller

October 2022

  • Dmitry, with three people in regal gold robes trimmed with ermine

    Dmitry review – historical Russian thriller resonates

    Marylebone theatre, London
    Peter Oswald’s take on Friedrich Schiller’s unfinished tragedy shows Russia’s recurrent turn towards tyranny

June 2022

  • Friedrich Schiller portrait

    New London theatre to open with ‘frighteningly vivid’ unfinished Schiller play

    Dmitry by Peter Oswald at the Marylebone theatre completes a drama by the German writer that offers a complex historical perspective on Russia

September 2019

  • Stuff Happens

    The 10 best plays about politics

    As Hansard opens at the National Theatre and drama heats up in Westminster, our critic picks his favourite political theatre

October 2018

  • Don Carlos

    Don Carlos review – Tom Burke strikes out with Schiller's tale of intrigue and incest

    The actor and director Gadi Roll launch their new company with a frustrating take on the drama set in the 16th-century Spanish court

August 2018

  • dance-autumn-reviews-2018

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Dazzling drama: the unmissable theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2018

    Gender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen’s closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love

July 2017

  • Proms

    First night
    Proms get political as Ode to Joy features on first night

    Festival tries to avoid controversial statements, but Russian-German pianist Igor Levit sneaked European Union theme through in first hour of season

December 2016

  • Lia Williams as Elizabeth I and Juliet Stevenson as Mary Stuart at the Almeida.

    Mary Stuart review – an electrifying update of Schiller’s royal drama

  • Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller at the Almeida Theatre Lia Williams as Elizabeth I & Juliet Stevenson as Mary Stuart

    Mary Stuart review – Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams are mirror-image monarchs

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    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?

January 2014

  • the robbers

    The Robbers – review

    There's little respite from the guns, noise and rhetoric in Schiller's story of sibling hatred, writes Michael Billington

September 2011

  • Christopher Maltman and Graham Johnson – review

    This was a powerhouse recital of Schiller settings by Schubert, Schuman and Liszt from the baritone Christopher Maltman and pianist Graham Johnson, writes Tim Ashley

June 2011

  • Luise Miller at the Donmar Warehouse, London

    Luise Miller – review

    Sex, power and poisonous politicking give Schiller's melodrama a visceral charge, writes Michael Billington

February 2011

  • Cinematic myths and historical facts

    Letters: Surely another reason The King's Speech has wowed so many (often male) critics is because it offers a romantic and heroic myth about being a man

November 2009

  • Friedrich von Schiller

    Friedrich von Schiller: the Romantic lover

    Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of one of Germany's most distinguished poets and philosophers

June 2009

  • Wallenstein

    Minerva, Chichester
    If you relish historical-political drama on the grand scale, get down to Chichester, says Michael Billington

May 2009

  • Mary Stuart

    Theatr Clwyd, Mold
    Terry Hands's production adheres rigorously to period detail, but nonetheless feels extremely topical, says Alfred Hickling

October 2008

  • Licence to ill

    Guy Dammann

    Guy Dammann: You know, Friedrich Schiller could teach us all a thing or two, not least about television licensing and civil liberties

May 2008

  • Between the lines

    Twenty years ago Nicholas Hytner directed Schiller's Don Carlos. As he takes on Verdi's opera, he finds the play transformed by the passion, yearning and fury of the music

July 2007

  • Schiller's family exhumed as scientists work to crack mystery of the two skulls

    Two skulls, one poet. It is a riddle that has been vexing experts for years. But now scientists hope to finally determine which skull belonged to Germany's most famous playwright, Friedrich Schiller.

March 2007

  • Don Carlos

    Lynne Parker's production of Friedrich Schiller's 1787 political drama is beautifully physically conceived as an engaging thriller, says Karen Fricker.

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