Arifa Akbar is to succeed Michael Billington as chief theatre critic at the Guardian. Former literary editor of the Independent, Akbar has written about the arts for the Guardian over several ...

Theatre critic Michael Billington has criticised British theatre for being too "soft centred", claiming political and international drama are virtually non-existent. He was speaking in an in ...

Michael Billington, the Guardian’s chief theatre critic, has announced he is stepping down from the role after nearly half a century. Billington has held the position since 1971, and began ...

Speaking to The Stage in 2015, soon after his 75th birthday, Michael Billington pondered ... century as the Guardian’s first-string critic, Billington has now stepped down from the day-job ...

It was a huge tribute to the respect – and affection – in which The Guardian's former chief theatre critic Michael Billington is held that the Lyttelton Theatre should be packed with people at a ...

Four decades of expertise lie behind veteran theatre critic Michael Billington's new book State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 (Faber, November), which explores the relationship between ...

DSL’s Michael Billington Theatre Club is a theatre appreciation group designed by esteemed theatre critic, Michael Billington. Members of this club will meet on the third Friday of every month ...

Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson is currently making his professional stage debut opposite theater veteran Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre in the West End. The two-hander ...

Peter Morgan (The Crown) was among the top winners at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards with his latest production, Patriots, which took home the coveted Michael Billington Award for ...