Around the World in 80 Days
When the St James Theatre’s new production of Around the World in 80 Days was…
Author Alex Larman
L’Anima
The first thing to say about L’Anima is that it’s a bugger to find. Wandering…
A Malta Saga
Wandering around the walled city of Mdina by day or night, it’s perfectly possible to…
Adam Handling at The Caxton
You always know that you’ve hit the heights of chefdom when your name is proudly…
Waste
In what is beginning to look like a worryingly hit-free regime at the National Theatre,…
The Remedy
London has plenty of good wine bars. More expensive, inevitably, than their continental cousins (we…
The Moderate Soprano
After the all-but unqualified triumph of Ian Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg, hopes were high…
Hangmen
The playwright Martin McDonagh achieved enormous success at the turn of the millennium with a…
Mr Foote’s Other Leg
In 2012, the actor and biographer Ian Kelly published a brilliant account of the life…
Manchester – The Rebirth
It was 2009 when the Cap’n and I last visited Manchester. He, a man with…
Our Country’s Good
It’s always a difficult decision for an artistic director as to how long he or…