Penelope Wilton

“You wiped the floor with me!” Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris have a row with Rattigan

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On May 8, 1956, Terence Rattigan stood outside the Royal Court Theater in London after the opening night of a revolutionary new drama. This was not one of his own plays, but a breakdown of the upstart generation: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Or, as the veteran playwright bitterly put it: Look how different … Read more

‘Theatre is not a podcast, it should not tell you what to think’

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Marcelo Dos Santos, the savior of British theater – Andrew Crowley Earlier this month there was some royally intriguing backstage drama. Tom Quinn, who wrote a biography in 2015 about William Tallon, the Queen Mother’s indispensable right-hand man, made himself known with Backstairs Billy, Marcelo Dos Santos’ new West End comedy about the couple’s long … Read more