Theatre

Book Review

Thomas Kyd wasn’t a patch on Shakespeare

Brian Vickers aims to ‘restore’ Kyd to greatness — but claiming too much on too little evidence does the playwright no favors

Emma Smith

Shakespeare’s Shylock and the Nazis

The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda

Susannah Heschel

The selfishness of rich socialists

Albert Brisbane somehow avoided sharing the wealth with his neighbors

Bill Kauffman

Swing for me

The experience of seeing George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company is something like inadvertently joining a swingers’ party

Robert S. Erickson

Art

‘Brexit unleased something monstrous’: James Graham interviewed

The playwright on how he made a drama out of a crisis

Lloyd Evans