Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force
The final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–Paris
October 2022
Robert Wilson: ‘We shouldn’t make theatre if we can’t laugh’
As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic
August 2022
Lady Gaga, Brad Pitt and … a porcupine: the portraits of Robert Wilson – in pictures
The famed New York theatre director and artist is known for his filmed portraits of famous faces which blend his love for the theatrical, art history and film
February 2016
Uncle Howard review – nephew trawls film-making vaults for moving portrait
This study of documentarian Howard Brookner is a family relic, a snapshot of New York’s 1980s gay scene and an unearthing of quirky cinematic detritus
January 2016
Sydney festival 2016
Woyzeck review – a feverish look into the mind of a madman
Georg Büchner’s 175-year-old story of working-class hardship and sexual rage takes on new resonance in contemporary discussions around family violence
December 2015
Sydney festival 2016
Robert Wilson: the art my generation produced won’t be seen in 50 years
Avant-garde theatremaker on the genius of Lady Gaga and why contemporary artists such as Marina Abramović will become a ‘footnote’ in history
June 2014
Zinnias: the Life of Clementine Hunter review – heartfelt but gauche homage
The European premiere of Robert Wilson's rootsy 90-minute opera at Lyon's Les Nuits de Fourvière festival was full of colour, but its text let it down, writes Alfred Hickling
June 2013
Theatre blog
What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips
The Manchester International Festival begins with Robert Wilson directing Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe, the BE Festival brings European theatre to Birmingham, and Greenwich and Docklands festival continues
September 2012
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
How I learned to love immersive theatre
Mark Lawson: I'd always been sceptical of site-specific and non-text-based theatre, but Robert Wilson's astonishing Walking won me over
August 2012
Krapp's Last Tape – review
Robert Wilson's determinedly chilling staging of the Beckett classic brings it back to unsettling life, writes Helen Meany
Walking; Ark-ive; Cesario – review
Robert Wilson's Walking shows the pitfalls of interactive theatre, but it's all animal magic at the National, writes Susannah Clapp
Walking – review
Robert Wilson takes a walk with angels in Norfolk
This week's new theatre
This week's new theatre and dance
April 2012
How we made
How we made: Philip Glass and Robert Wilson on Einstein on the Beach
'I asked Philip Glass how he composed – and he gave me a mathematical equation'
September 2003
A resistible temptation
Action man
October 2001
Woyzeck
Showing as part of the Dublin theatre festival, this Danish Woyzeck is the third collaboration from Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
