Articles by Michael Coveney
Michael Coveney / June 22, 2011
Opera is associated with formality and expensive venues. But a new breed of producer wants to change all that
Michael Coveney / March 31, 2011
As far as the performing arts are concerned, there’s nothing really controversial about the cuts, or indeed the increases. What remains at issue is the value—in both political and “real”...
Michael Coveney / January 31, 2011
Antonioni Project
Barbican Theatre, 1st-5th February
The films of Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, are strange, disturbing and emotionally volatile—characters locked in sexual and...
Michael Coveney / January 1, 2011
Rebecca Hall stars in her father’s production of Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
dir Peter Hall, National Theatre,
11th January-2nd March
Sold out: Returns or queue on the day for...
Michael Coveney / December 15, 2010
Peter Brook will celebrate his 86th birthday in March with a Barbican production. The most original of theatrical titans tells Michael Coveney why the time for banging the drum is over
Michael Coveney / November 30, 2010
Season’s Greetingsby Alan Ayckbourn,
National Theatre, 1st December-4th January
Tis the season to be jolly, or perhaps not with Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980 classic comedy of a...
Michael Coveney / November 8, 2010
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen,
dir Travis Preston, Almeida,
12th November-8th January 2011
Quietly picking off the big roles at his own pace, Stephen Dillane is the most interesting of the...
Michael Coveney / October 7, 2010
An ear for observation: Nina Raine's Tribes at the Royal Court
Tribes by Nina Raine,
Royal Court, London
14th October-13th November
With two new plays on the way (the...
Michael Coveney / August 19, 2010
Immersive theatre is billed as a thrilling and intimate alternative to traditional drama, but it smacks of triviality and low-level fascism
Michael Coveney / June 21, 2010
Summer is here, and with it open-air shows ranging from Peter Pan to The Crucible. These performances draw on theatre’s roots