Theatre: Shakespeare

1. Romeo and Juliet (RSC).

2. King Lear (RSC).

3. As You Like It (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

4. Measure for Measure (Almeida).

5. The Winter’s Tale (RSC/Roundhouse).

6. Henry IV part 2 (Globe).

7. Macbeth (Globe).

8. Antony and Cleopatra (RSC).

9. Antony and Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse).

10. Hamlet (The Crucible, Sheffield).

11. King Lear (Donmar).

12. Henry VIII (The Globe).

13. The Tempest (Old Vic).

14. As You Like It (Old Vic)

15. Macbeth (Belt Up/York Theatre Royal).

Theatre: Not Shakespeare

1. Jerusalem (Apollo).

2. After the Dance (National).

3. An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible).

4. Women Beware Women (National).

5. London Assurance (National).

6. Enron (Theatre Royal, Newcastle)

7. The Habit of Art (National Theatre).

8. Corrie! (Lowry, Salford)

9. The Real Thing (Old Vic).

10. Canterbury Tales (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Northern Broadsides).

11. La Bete (Comedy Theatre).

12. Death of a Salesman (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

13. Three Sisters (Lyric, Hammersmith).

14. The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre)

15. Beating Berlusconi. (York Theatre Royal).

  

Exhibitions

1. Gauguin (Tate Modern).

2. Van Gogh (Royal Academy).

3. Renaissance drawings (The British Museum).

4. The Book of the Dead (British Museum).

5. Venice. Canaletto and his rivals. (The National Gallery).

6. Sargent and the Sea (Royal Academy).

7. Rude Britannia (Tate Britain).

8. Summer Show (Royal Academy).

9. Beatles to Bowie (National Portrait Gallery).

10. Chris Ofili (Tate Britain).

  

Books

1. Andrea Levy The Long Song.

2. Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall.

3. AS Byatt – The Children’s Book.

4. Rose Tremain – Trespass.

5. Colm Toibin Brooklyn.

6. Ian McEwan  Solar.

7. Paul Magrs Diary of a Doctor Who Addict.

8. Tony Blair The Journey.

9. Kate Atkinson Started Early, Took My Dog.

10. Alexander McCall Smith The Double Comfort Safari Club.

TV

1. Coronation Street –  especially for Jack’s Death and the Live episode (ITV).

3. Ashes to Ashes (BBC1).

4. Doctor Who – The End of Time part 2 (BBC1).

5. Doctor Who – especially for the eleventh hour (BBC1).

6. Downton Abbey (ITV1)

7. I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (ITV1).

8. Macbeth (BBC 4).

9. Luther (BBC1).

10. Silent Witness (BBC 1).

and my guilty pleasure of the year

Peter Kay at the Studio, Lowry (and again at the Manchester Evening News Arena).

Adam Foster Almeida Antony and Cleopatra Apollo Theatre As You Like It Beating Berlusconi Beatles to Bowie Belt Up Theatre Ben Miles Booker Prize Bridge Project British Museum Coronation Street Corrie! Courtyard Theatre Damian Lewis David Tennant Death of a Salesman Derek Jacobi Doctor Who Donmar Dyfan Dwyfor Enron Globe Greg Doran Greg Hicks Habit of Art Hamlet Harriet Walter I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Italian Renaissance Drawings Jerusalem John Simm Jonjo O'Neill Kathryn Hunter Katy Stephens Keira Knightley King Lear London Assurance Lucy Bailey Mariah Gale Mark Rylance Matt Smith Measure for Measure Michael Boyd Nancy Carroll National Gallery National Portrait Gallery National Theatre Noma Dumezweni Northern Broadsides Old Vic Peter Kay Romeo and Juliet Rory Kinnear Royal Academy Royal Academy Summer Exhibition RSC Rude Britannia Rupert Goold Russell T Davies Sam Troughton Sheffield Crucible Simon Russell Beale Steven Moffat Tara FitzGerald Tate Britain Tate Modern The Canterbury Tales The Lowry The Misanthrope The Winter's Tale Theatre Royal Newastle Three Sisters Toby Stephens Van Gogh West Yorkshire Playhouse Women Beware Women York Theatre Royal