Michael Grandage

Disney’s Frozen musical to close in the West End – but open in UK schools

The show’s run at Theatre Royal Drury Lane will end in September but British schools can then compete to stage it

Chris Wiegand

22, Jan, 2024 @5:11 PM

Backstairs Billy review – anodyne comedy about the Queen Mother and her servant

Penelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth

Arifa Akbar

07, Nov, 2023 @11:59 PM

Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans to star in Queen Mother comedy in the West End

Michael Grandage will direct Wilton as the Queen Mother, with Evans playing her most loyal servant, in new play Backstairs Billy this autumn

Tom Ambrose

04, Jul, 2023 @11:01 PM

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

Susannah Clapp

11, Dec, 2022 @10:30 AM

Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

David Jays

05, Dec, 2022 @11:59 PM

‘It’s relatable’ … The Crown’s Emma Corrin on playing gender-swapping, time-travelling Orlando

The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles

Claire Armitstead

15, Nov, 2022 @4:32 PM

My Policeman review – Harry Styles and co underwhelm in 50s Brighton-set plodder

Styles leads a half-hearted cast as a copper whose marriage is rocked by the return of a figure from his past

Wendy Ide

23, Oct, 2022 @11:00 AM

My Policeman review – poignant tale of a love triangle inspired by EM Forster’s own

Michael Grandage’s adaptation of a novel inspired by Forster’s famous ménage à trois conjours a mood of British postwar repression and guilt

Peter Bradshaw

20, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM

Even Harry Styles’ presence can’t make My Policeman’s discussion of queerness interesting

Michael Grandage’s new film has gay cast members and crew, but the literacy of queer themes in mainstream cinema feels painfully unevolved

Guy Lodge

20, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM

The Lemon Table review – love and death with Julian Barnes

Ian McDiarmid wryly contemplates mortality in his engaging new adaptation of two Julian Barnes short stories

Clare Brennan

24, Oct, 2021 @10:00 AM

The Lemon Table review – Julian Barnes’ stories of mortality and musicality

Ian McDiarmid is outstanding in two pieces, one as an angry audience member and one a composer’s coda, directed by Michael Grandage

Brian Logan

21, Oct, 2021 @5:43 PM

Frozen review – stunning musical extravaganza creates its own magic

Beyond the visual thrills and powerful ballads, this adaptation brings an unexpected depth to the relationship between two tortured sisters