It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

The Invention of Love opens with 77-year old Housman (Simon Russell Beale) being ferried across the Styx to Hades. Along the ...

Chloe Lamford's set replaces the heat of the title with an ice box set of zinc tiles, and a grand piano festooned with ...

Read our review of *The Invention of Love*, starring Simon Russell Beale as A. E. Housman, now in performances at the ...

Tom Stoppard's exploration about AE Housman's unrequited love for his Oxford peer features a fine performance by Simon Russell Beale ...

Can men really love each other – without sex? Or, to put it another way, how many different forms of male love can you name?

Well, I’m dead. Good,’ declares A.E Housman (Simon Russell Beale) as the opening line of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Considering its subject matter, the first scene is very funny indeed. Hou ...

A demanding and yet not completely inaccessible show, it is at least consistent in its intense analysis of ancient works as ...

Here’s a turn-up for the books. Hampstead greeted the New Year with a Stoppard play, Rock ’n’ Roll (2006), that’s regarded as ...

It does the production no harm, too, that director Blanche McIntyre has Simon Russell Beale as the poet. From the moment he shuffles out in the Stygian gloom and says, quite matter-of-factly, “I’m ...

It's three hours of emotionally illiterate men archly quoting Latin. I have no desire to spend any time in their company ...

Don’t be fooled. It’s midwinter and a rotund man with a big white beard is centre stage. But this is no schmultz-fest panto.