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About David Benedict

David Benedict has been a daily columnist and theatre editor on the Independent and arts editor of the Observer. He is chief London critic of Variety, a regular guest on the BBC, and is currently writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim. Read David's columns for The Stage every Wednesday.

Recent Articles

My Favourite Play: David Pugh

My Favourite Play

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? West End and Broadway producer David Pugh selects the 1981 production of Dreamgirls in New York

My Favourite Play: Lolita Chakrabarti

Features

Actor and writer Lolita Chakrabarti selects Robert Lepage’s Needles and Opium as her favourite production, which was a formative experience for her

My favourite play: Hiran Abeysekera

Features

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Hiran Abeysekera selects a production of Asinamali! that he saw at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 2007

My favourite play: Ron Cook

Features

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor Ron Cook chooses director Robert Icke’s reworking of Sophocles’ pivotal ancient drama

My favourite play: Rupert Goold

Features

Incoming Old Vic artistic director Rupert Goold chooses Richard III, featuring a legendary performance from Antony Sher, as his favourite play

My favourite play: Arinzé Kene

Features

Actor and playwright Arinzé Kene chooses his first experience of seeing a show by debbie tucker green as his favourite play

Partenope review

Reviews

Christopher Alden’s revival of Handel’s opera features a sensational ENO debut by Hugh Cutting

My favourite play: Roy Williams

Features

For his favourite play, writer Roy Williams chooses David Eldridge’s ’risky’ debut at the Bush Theatre

My favourite play: Sheila Hancock

Features

Actor and author Sheila Hancock on her favourite theatre production, a farce that first brought home to her the power of comedy and the unique talent of comic performers

My favourite play: Arlene Phillips

Features

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Award-winning choreographer Arlene Phillips chooses a Trevor Nunn-directed Shakespeare adaptation

My Favourite Play: Dillie Keane

Features

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Actor, singer and co-founder of Fascinating Aida, Dillie Keane, chooses a show she saw after hitchhiking to the Avignon Festival in France

My favourite play: Vicki Mortimer

Features

Set and costume designer Vicki Mortimer chooses a play by Caryl Churchill

My favourite play: Mel Kenyon

Features

Mel Kenyon, literary agent and head of theatre at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, chooses a play that premiered just a few months ago

My favourite play: Nicholas Hytner

Features

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? Director Nicholas Hytner chooses Twelfth Night, starring Judi Dench as Viola

My favourite performance: Sonia Friedman

Features

Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? West End producer Sonia Friedman chooses Harold Pinter’s rehearsal performance of Krapp’s Last Tape