Alice Saville

The actor on playing Lady Bracknell at the National, the groundbreaking gay love story of Mr Loverman, and getting married on stage

Armando Iannucci and Coogan team up to bring Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire to the West End, but the production is constrained by aiming too hard for cinematic perfection

Max Webster’s superb cast anchors an innuendo-laden production that leans into slapstick and visual gags with relish

‘Desperate Housewives’ star Vanessa Williams turns in a decent performance as the fearsome Miranda Priestly, but this West End production feels frozen in time

Kendell Feaver’s adaptation of Noel Streatfield’s 1936 book is as delicately balanced as a dancer on pointe as it leaps between its period setting and the present

Leaping between its period setting and the present, Kendell Feaver's adaptation of Noel Streatfield's 1936 book is as delicately balanced as a dancer on pointe

Duff’s Regina is such a monster in this production that it’s hard to feel any kind of surprise or sympathy, as she manipulates or is manipulated in turn

Duff's Regina is such a monster in this production that it's hard to feel any kind of surprise or sympathy, as she manipulates or is manipulated in turn

After a decade of anticipation, Rachel Chavkin’s much talked-about musical arrives in London

The star of ‘Normal People' returns to the stage in Tennessee Williams's tale of two dysfunctional families – but Jones's Hollywood poise and an unbalanced plot means she fails to make an emotional impact