Lloyd Evans

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn is a problem play. It debuted at the National in 1998 and ran for two years…

Automation is about to take over the world, apparently. But the fightback has begun. On a cold, blowy day a…

A Doll’s House has been reconstructed at the Almeida with a new script by Anya Reiss. Torvald Helmer is an inept drug-addled financier who wants to sell his business to a wealthy American investor. But the deal is a dud. Without his knowledge, Torvald’s bossy wife, Nora, has stolen £860,000 from a client’s account to

Thalissa Teixeira (Kristine) and Romola Garai (Nora) in Almeida Theatre's A Doll's House. [Marc Brenner] A Doll's House

Giles Terera (Dale Harding), Arthur Boan (Chief Bromden) and Javone Prince (Cheswick) in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Old Vic. [Photo: Manuel Harlan]

Grace Pervades by David Hare is a drama-documentary about the life and theatrical work of the great Victorian thesp, Sir Henry Irving.

She was doing a postgrad course in a town by the sea, and a strange thing happened to us one…

Please Please Me Kiln Theatre, until 29 May Flush Arcola Theatre, until 6 June

Ambassadors Theatre, until 1 August The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind @sohoplace, until 18 July

When Rachel Reeves became Chancellor she found a lavatory in her private suite which had been used by Churchill in the 1920s. She vowed to remove it. ‘Smashing glass ceilings and urinals’ was her policy. The actor, Rosie Holt, felt inspired by Reeves’s petulance and she wrote a satire about a female politician who sets