The Deep Blue Sea review – Tamsin Greig adds bite to Terence Rattigan
‘You wiped the floor with me!’ Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris are having a riot with Rattigan
January 2023
Sheridan Smith on stage: from Hedda Gabler to Elle Woods – in pictures
As she returns to the West End to star in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s theatre, revisit some of the Olivier award-winner’s theatre roles
November 2021
Notebook
Is a crush on Shaun Evans enough to sustain me through a theatrical turkey?
Rachel Cooke
‘He understood our national psyche’: Terence Rattigan deserves a proper memorial
July 2021
Culture in peril
Kenneth Branagh play cancelled after ‘Covid-enforced absences’
A revival of The Browning Version at Riverside Studios has been called off after cast members’ illness and self-isolation disrupted rehearsals
April 2021
Helen McCrory obituary
One of the leading stage actors of her generation who found wider fame in the Harry Potter films and TV’s Peaky Blinders
March 2021
Lockdown culture
All on Her Own Review – a curio of repressed emotion
Janie Dee impresses in a smart production of a Terence Rattigan solo work bound up in class issues
February 2021
Lockdown culture
All on Her Own review – denied love explodes with a voice beyond death
Janie Dee stars as a newly bereaved Hampstead widow in this poignant, ventriloquising monologue by Terence Rattigan
July 2020
Lockdown culture
Helen McCrory: 'This is a woman's private space, invaded by others'
As the National Theatre streams a bold revival of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, its star discusses a potent mix of sensuality and torment
June 2019
The Deep Blue Sea review – Rattigan's furious tide of doomed passion
Nancy Carroll is magnificent as a woman shamed by a failed affair with a younger man, in a play that seethes with postwar English anger
While the Sun Shines review – fresh-as-paint Rattigan revival
Superb performances power the ingeniously plotted story of a young earl’s marriage to the daughter of an impoverished duke
The week in theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; While the Sun Shines; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – review
Nicholas Hytner pulls off a dazzling circus trick with Puck and co
April 2017
From Miss Trunchbull to Mr Chips: top teachers on stage – in pictures
A new production of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On has Richard Wilson playing the headmaster. Take a look at theatre’s best school staff through the years
March 2017
Love in Idleness review – Eve Best lifts second division Rattigan
Best shines as a flirtatious widow in Trevor Nunn’s update of a 1944 Terence Rattigan rewrite
Love in Idleness review – Trevor Nunn reveals Rattigan's political divide
Eve Best and Helen George star in a production that merges the playwright’s Love in Idleness with its former iteration, Less Than Kind
La Cage aux Folles is proof of theatre's ability to shift sexual attitudes
Michael Billington
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s 1983 musical has been revived once more. The show struck an important, rarely acknowledged blow for equality
June 2016
Ross review – Terence on Arabia
A first-rate Joseph Fiennes saves the day in Terence Rattigan’s timid drama based on TE Lawrence
The Deep Blue Sea review – an explosive revival
Helen McCrory brings steel and gusto to the role of Terence Rattigan’s scorned 1950s lover
Ross review – Joseph Fiennes captures TE Lawrence's troubled spirit
Fiennes gives an accomplished performance in an elegantly mounted production of Terence Rattigan’s uneven play
