Jonathan Kent's Chichester Festival production, newly ensconced at the Gielgud Theatre, marks the fourth staging of Noël Coward's comedy in the capital within the last dozen years, and it's also by some measure the most lopsided.
The deeply dark piece of physical theatre marks Thierrée's fifth time as director; his previous shows, including Au Revoir Parapluie, which came to Sydney in 2008, were daring and critically acclaimed.
Stoppard fils played that avatar of doom, Hamlet, on the West End in 2005, a theatrical baton that was passed last week to Jude Law, whose appropriation of the role for a summer run at Wyndham's Theatre marks his first London stage appearance in seven years.
But this long-aborning musical adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play, with a book by Terrence McNally and a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb (the legendary duo behind "Cabaret," Chicago" and a handful of near-miss classics), hasn't yet coalesced at the Lyceum Theatre, marking a rare directorial defeat for the ingeniously inventive John Doyle.
In the upstairs bar of London's Duke of York's Theatre, Mark Rylance is deep in thought.
We rebranded the company in April 2012 and hope that our new name and website, featuring short films produced alongside our theatre productions, mark us out as something special.
Of her current project – reading excerpts from the King James Bible on stage at the National theatre, to mark the edition's 400th anniversary – for instance, she has this to say: "It's David and Saul and Jonathan, and the Queen of Sheba, and Bathsheba.
Have-your-cake theatre is marked by a kind of legerdemain.
In the mid 1960s British theatre was marked by its social observation and political commitment.
Writing those scenes, Bennett says he drew on his own formative experiences in the theatre, which marked his subsequent character.
Since then his varied work in theatre has marked him apart as a top-flight musician far less interested in being prolific than being truthful and innovative.
