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Michael Grandage

January 2024

  • Curtain call … the cast of Frozen take their bows at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

    Disney’s Frozen musical to close in the West End – but open in UK schools

    The show’s run at Theatre Royal Drury Lane will end in September but British schools can then compete to stage it

November 2023

  • Backstairs Billy by Marcelo Dos Santos at the Duke of York’s theatre.

    Backstairs Billy review – anodyne comedy about the Queen Mother and her servant

    Penelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth

July 2023

  • Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans

    Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans to star in Queen Mother comedy in the West End

    Michael Grandage will direct Wilton as the Queen Mother, with Evans playing her most loyal servant, in new play Backstairs Billy this autumn

December 2022

  • Emma Corrin (Orlando), Millicent Wong (Sasha). photo by Marc Brenner Orlando, Garrick Theatre, London 26 Nov 2022 - 25 Feb 2023

    The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

  • Emma Corrin as Orlando.

    Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

November 2022

  • ‘Empowering and cathartic’ … Corrin, left, as Orlando with Akuc Bol.

    ‘It’s relatable’ … The Crown’s Emma Corrin on playing gender-swapping, time-travelling Orlando

    The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles

October 2022

  • Harry Styles and Emma Corrin in My Policeman.

    My Policeman review – Harry Styles and co underwhelm in 50s Brighton-set plodder

    Styles leads a half-hearted cast as a copper whose marriage is rocked by the return of a figure from his past
  • Secrets and lies … David Dawson, Emma Corrin and Harry Styles in My Policeman.

    My Policeman review – poignant tale of a love triangle inspired by EM Forster’s own

    Michael Grandage’s adaptation of a novel inspired by Forster’s famous ménage à trois conjours a mood of British postwar repression and guilt
  • Guy Lodge

    Even Harry Styles’ presence can’t make My Policeman’s discussion of queerness interesting

    Guy Lodge
    Michael Grandage’s new film has gay cast members and crew, but the literacy of queer themes in mainstream cinema feels painfully unevolved

October 2021

  • The Lemon Table Ian McDiarmid in The Lemon Table.Ian McDiarmid

    The Lemon Table review – love and death with Julian Barnes

  • Beady, studied, never casual … Ian McDiarmid in The Lemon Table.

    The Lemon Table review – Julian Barnes’ stories of mortality and musicality

September 2021

  • Frozen at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London.

    Frozen review – stunning musical extravaganza creates its own magic

    Beyond the visual thrills and powerful ballads, this adaptation brings an unexpected depth to the relationship between two tortured sisters

August 2021

  • Cush Jumbo plays Hamlet, Mae Martin and Simon Amstell.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

    Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage

June 2021

  • Ian McDiarmid

    Ian McDiarmid to tour show based on Julian Barnes stories about ageing

    Actor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance

April 2020

  • Stephanie McKeon as Anna and Samantha Barks as Elsa

    Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon to star in West End version of Frozen

    The pair will play sisters Elsa and Anna in the stage version of the Disney mega-hit when the Theatre Royal Drury Lane reopens later this year

March 2019

  • Caissie Levy as Elsa in Frozen: The Musical on Broadway

    Frozen musical to reopen London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2020

    Disney’s stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year

July 2018

  • Aidan Turner as Padraic.

    The Lieutenant of Inishmore review – Aidan Turner is terrific in shocking comedy

    The Poldark star gives an excellent performance in a first-rate revival of Martin McDonagh’s brutally funny play

May 2018

  • Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch

    Red review – Alfred Molina's portrait is as layered as a Rothko canvas

    Michael Grandage directs a well-judged revival of John Logan’s play about the artist and his assistant

September 2016

  • This image released by Disney shows a teenage Elsa the Snow Queen, voiced by Maia Mitchell, in a scene from the animated feature “Frozen.” (AP Photo/Disney) frozen;disney;animation;kristoff;anna

    Michael Grandage to direct Frozen on Broadway

    The award-winning British director is set to take the reins of the stage adaptation of the blockbuster Disney movie, set to land on New York stage in 2018

February 2016

  • Meryl Streep with the long-suffering festival jury on the red carpet in Berlin last week.

    Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks

    The Coens splashed out, Cynthia Nixon channelled Emily Dickinson – and Meryl Streep marshalled a hard-pressed jury. Willkommen to Berlin…
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