David Benedict

Watching the infamous title character slash his way through his family tree en route to the throne in Shakespeare's "Richard III" tends to be like entering a maze: You know...

A star vehicle on cruise control this ain't: Carey Mulligan's Kyra is all composure, a sense of purpose masking layers of hurt, while Bill Nighy's furiously brittle Tom blazes with...

What do want from a musical... the music? If so, Cameron Mackintosh's hotly anticipated revival of "Miss Saigon" is home free. In the title role, Eva Noblezada makes an astonishing...

Take three generations of a cheerfully squabbling family, put them into a spy drama, fill with lust, love and lies, whip everything along as a comedy and what have you...

Crackerjack comic timing was the last thing anyone expected from an alarming play about 21st-century concerns over data, secrecy and power. But it's all over James Graham's dazzler "Privacy." Josie...

Everyone likes secrets, especially dramatists. So it's no surprise that the unraveling of the mysteries of the current Queen Elizabeth's famously undocumented weekly meetings with her prime minister proved audience...

Hyper-alert Andrew Scott is ideal casting for Paul, the central role of "Birdland," the latest play by Simon Stephens ("The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"). We never...

Following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, her successor, the current Prince Charles, about to be crowned king, holds the government and the entire country to ransom. It's...

London now has two blockbuster-scale tuners shamelessly embracing bad taste and spoofing genres in song while being endorsed by the institutions they lampoon. The first (vastly superior) one is the...

The 1987 movie "Fatal Attraction" was called many things -- psychological thriller, box office smash, misogynist trash -- but no one described it as dreary. But that's the word that...