Andrew Billen has worked as a celebrity interviewer for, successively, The Observer, the Evening Standard and, currently The Times. For his columns, he was awarded reviewer of the year in 2006 Press Gazette Magazine Awards.
Cultural Capital
13 March 2014
Epic but finally unsatisfactory.
Culture
10 October 2013
Psychedelic inspirations and standing ovations.
Music and Performance
22 August 2013
The Same Deep Water As Me
Donmar Warehouse, London WC2
When, in his 1995 book, The State We’re In, Will Hutton...
Music and Performance
04 July 2013
Sam Mendes's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Culture
28 May 2013
The Tempest; Passion Play; The Weir
Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1;
Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2...
Music and Performance
21 March 2013
A cartoon of cameos.
Music and Performance
07 February 2013
No Quarter; The Turn of the Screw
The Royal Court, SW1; The Almeida, N1
In No Quarter, the precocious, publicschool...
Music and Performance
19 December 2012
Viva Forever!; The Effect; People
Piccadilly Theatre; The Cottesloe; Lyttleton Theatre
Having been among the...
Music and Performance
27 September 2012
Love and Information
Royal Court, London SW1
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Cottesloe...
Music and Performance
27 June 2012
The Last of the Haussmans
National Theatre, London SE1
It’s not Terms of Endearment, the stroppy daughter...
Culture
09 May 2012
Love, Love, Love
Royal Court, London SW1
Now and again, as the movie tells us, a star is born. I am not quite sure if...
Music and Performance
04 April 2012
The Duchess of Malfi
Old Vic, London SE1
There may be no more touching portrayal of...