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  • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
    Q&AThe Questionnaire
    Roger Allam: ‘Acting is easier than life – you’ve got something to do, and you try to achieve it’

    Q&A with actor on good luck, kitchen happiness and having children later in life

  • Tuesday, 17 April, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Moderate Soprano, Duke of York’s Theatre, London — art and society under discussion

    Plenty of talk but few conclusions in David Hare’s play about the birth of Glyndebourne opera house

  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Endeavour, ITV — topical tale of seedy establishment figures

    Shaun Evans excels as the young Inspector Morse, investigating a case with Presidents Club echoes

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Limehouse at Donmar Warehouse: it’s my party and i’ll leave if I want to

    Steve Waters imagines a 1981 meeting at which the Labour Gang of Four resolved to set up the SDP

  • Friday, 26 August, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Truth Commissioner, BBC2

    The feature film’s pace, atmosphere and ensemble acting are of the highest order

  • Sunday, 1 November, 2015
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Moderate Soprano, Hampstead Theatre, London: ‘Intriguing, but rarely stirring’

    David Hare’s new play tells the story of Glyndebourne and its maverick founder John Christie

  • Thursday, 2 October, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Seminar, Hampstead Theatre, London – review

    Aspiring writers face hard truths in Theresa Rebeck’s acidly funny but rather insubstantial comedy

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Spring Awakening, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton – review

    Headlong’s update of Wedekind stresses the fact that ignorance persists in the age of mass information

  • Tuesday, 11 December, 2012
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Privates on Parade, Noël Coward Theatre, London

    A ludicrously dragged-up Simon Russell Beale heads an excellent cast in this revival of the 1977 play with songs

  • Monday, 9 April, 2012
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Uncle Vanya, Minerva Studio, Chichester

    In a solid opening to this year’s Chichester season, the best performances come in the most incidental roles

  • Friday, 11 November, 2011
    Life & Arts
    A hung verdict on the jury system

    A courtroom thriller celebrates the jury as the embodiment of ‘responsible citizenship’

  • Monday, 23 August, 2010
    Theatre
    The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
  • Sunday, 8 June, 2008
    World
    Arts around the world
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2008
    ReviewFT Magazine
    A Prisoner of Birth
  • Monday, 19 February, 2007
    Life & Arts
    Boeing-Boeing, Comedy Theatre, London
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