From Joe Egg to Noises Off, Michael Blakemore was a superb craftsman of theatre
Michael Billington
Michael Blakemore, venerable theatre director, dies aged 95
October 2019
The week in theatre: Mephisto [A Rhapsody]; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg; The Man in the White Suit – review
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg review – Peter Nichols' classic has rare truth
September 2019
Letter: Peter Nichols obituary
Quentin Falk writes: Peter Nichols proved, unsurprisingly, a colourful contributor
Why art and science suffer in silos
Richard Brooks
A major new Radio 4 series breaks down the barriers between art and science
Peter Nichols obituary
Peter Nichols probed his private life to reveal the state of the nation
Michael Billington
Peter Nichols, playwright best known for Joe Egg, dies aged 92
August 2017
Other lives
Beryl King obituary
Other lives: Actor and lecturer in the drama department of Trent Park College, north London
April 2016
On my radar
On my radar: Jonathan Meades’s cultural highlights
The essayist turned artist on Nabokov, wandering aimlessly near Euston Station, and his late discovery of Thomas Hardy’s poetry
December 2015
Brief letters
Smuggled delights of The L-Shaped Room
Letters: My own copy, bought from a junk shop to the gleeful instruction ‘Keep that one under your coat’, I covered in brown paper
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?
May 2013
Passion Play – review
Zoë Wanamaker: 'Acting is a vicious business, it can be very humiliating'
April 2013
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – review
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – review
January 2013
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Who'd have a career as a playwright?
Mark Lawson: From John Osborne to Howard Brenton, many fine playwrights have suffered periods of neglect – but, as Peter Nichols's resurgence shows, dramatic fortunes can rise as well as fall
November 2012
Peter Nichols on Joe Melia: 'a Brechtian actor long before he appeared in Brecht'
