Comedians: racist and sexist standups who messed with audiences’ minds
Trevor Griffiths’s 1975 play that ‘invited audiences to laugh, then punished them for doing so’ is 40 years old. Here, we look back at the show’s history with those who made it
October 2011
Theatre blog
How old is Shakespeare's Iago?
Daniel Rosenthal: Iago, the great deceiver of Othello, is 28 according to Shakespeare – but actors have a habit of tweaking the lines ...
May 2010
Shortcuts
Buy a theatre ticket, improve your status
A trip to Shakespeare's Globe in London could elevate you to a prince, or an air commodore, for the day
April 2007
The Bard on screen
Shakespeare is box-office poison - or so the thinking goes. But if you look at the hundreds of blockbuster epics, westerns and rom-coms based on his work, it's clear that he is the saviour of cinema, says Daniel Rosenthal.
May 2005
Why I love ...
... advice on movie posters.
October 2004
The horror: a guided tour
Film: The Wild Frontiers Adventure Travel brochure for Apocalypse Now - The Tour makes all that look tame. Subtitled "Don't Just Watch It ... Live It", takes place next month, it was put together to mark the 25th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam war classic.
November 2001
Inspector Moor
Othello as the first black Metropolitan Police chief? If you think ITV has lost the plot, then what about Macbeth as a fight between rival fast-food joints?
