Billington, Michael

Michael Billington has been Drama Critic for the Guardian since 1971 and of Country Life since 1987. In 1974 he won the IPC Critic of the Year award and in 1993, 1995, and 1997 was voted Critic of the Year by readers of Theatre Record. He broadcasts regularly on radio and television arts programmes
including Night Waves and Front Row and has written and presented TV documentaries on Peter Hall, Peggy Ashcroft, and Alan Ayckbourn. He frequently lectures abroad for the British Council, teaches theatre courses in London to students from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University and