 | Michael Coveney: Toby Stephens keeps Coward in the family WOS 30 January 2013 The news that Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are to appear in Noel Coward's Private Lives at the Gielgud gives a great boost to sentimental theatreland. Following the example of his father, Robert .... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Are you sitting too comfortably? WOS 29 January 2013 On most nights in the theatre, no-one's complaining about the seating. Being uncomfortable is all part of what theatre-going entails. Do you think in Ancient Greece they stayed away because, my G.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Greg hints at long-term RSC return to Barbican WOS 24 January 2013 Ten years after the RSC left the Barbican on a rising tide of acrimony and bad feeling, new artistic director Gregory Doran yesterday announced that the company would return there with David Tennant l.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Critical kisses with Judas and Jonathan WOS 21 January 2013 Things are going from bad to embarrassing. Having been hailed as Benedict Nightingale by Arthur Smith at the Critics' Circle awards, I edged my way through a packed dress circle bar at the Duke of Yor.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Cold snap, hot teachers, warm theatres WOS 18 January 2013 With snow falling in many parts of the country, getting to theatres is likely to prove difficult over the next few days. By the time I'd walked a couple of hundred yards from Brondesbury station to th.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Arthur Smith flays critics at the friendly Circle awards WOS 16 January 2013 "Hello, Benedict," said Arthur Smith, shaking me warmly by the hand. As I'd brushed my hair, and my teeth, it was slightly galling to be mistaken for the walrus-moustached (with food attached) former .... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Rupert, Fiona, and other remarkable actors WOS 14 January 2013 I've been thinking about the really brilliant and remarkable people who work in our theatre. At the Evening Standard awards, David Hare made a stirring speech about two actors in plays of his w.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Musical misery divides glum critics all over again WOS 11 January 2013 "If I was the RSC I'd forget about a West End transfer and settle for a made-for-TV miniseries instead." That was Lyn Gardner writing in the long defunct magazine City Limits after the opening of Les .... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: An Audience backstage with Daldry and Mrs Thatcher WOS 9 January 2013 The nearest a critic or journalist gets to the spotlight - or would want to get - is a backstage interview or an onstage Q and A with the cast and audience after a performance. We're used to that so.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: New resolutions and celebrity circus non-watch WOS 7 January 2013 Sitting at computer screens or in theatres is not the best way to keep healthy, as I discovered the hard way 20 years ago when suddenly afflicted with a severe case of repetitive strain injury, not to.... More... |