Theatre folk make the New Year's honours list, Hugh Jackman plans to work more Broadway magic and David Cameron goes Ali Baba at his local panto. The Stage's Alistair Smith brings us the week in theatre
5 Jan 2012: Matt Trueman: A new site sets out to 'review the reviewers' of the New York Times, while Tom Stoppard reveals his true source of inspiration
4 Jan 2012: Gina Allum: With a 2:1 ratio of women's to men's toilets, Broadway is streets ahead in catering for female audience members. Theatreland has been caught short
15 Dec 2011:
New York Times reviewer Ben Brantley draws criticism for labelling married star the 'bi-est guy in town' – then claims he doesn't mean it literally
21 Sep 2011: David Cote: Despite its enormous resources, US theatre can't match the National's mix of artistic boldness and populist shrewdness – as the New York Times admits
15 Sep 2011:
Sondheim's alternately nostalgic and cynical musical is tough to get right. The new Broadway production does it perfectly, writes Hadley Freeman
10 Sep 2011: Stuart Jeffries: Legendary actor and life-long activist Vanessa Redgrave talks about bad habits, brother Corin and why the battle for the beleaguered Travellers of Dale Farm matters so much to her
Instead of giving us a battle for supremacy between two star performers, this ensemble production reminds us that Schiller looks both back to Shakespeare and forward to John le Carré, says Michael Billington