There are some wonderful plays on in London at present, a few of which I have been privileged to see over the past few days. I am writing this before witnessing Daniel Radcliffe’s return to the West End stage in Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Innishmaan but can certainly vouch for the excellence of the National Theatre’s Othello and Strange Interlude, both of which I saw at the weekend, and The Old Vic’s revival of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth, for which I returned to London on Monday.

By some strange mischance — possibly in consequence of a mishearing by someone in the newspaper office — The Times carried Dominic Maxwell’s review of the last in later editions on Thursday under the title Sweet Bird of Truth.

When the review was repeated on Friday, with the title corrected, no mention was made of the error, even though the piece carried the usual reference to its earlier airing. Nor was the matter raised in the ‘Corrections and clarifications’ section on the letters page. Truth? If some readers of The Times are now going to think Williams wrote Sweet Bird of Truth, those who take the Sunday Times might be developing some pretty rum ideas about the musical output of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. In an article this week about Valli’s forthcoming tour, Garth Cartwright wrote of the group’s “pulsing rock ’n’ roll anthems (Rag Doll, Walk Like a Man) and ballads (Sherry, Let’s Hang On)”. Can he have heard the songs mentioned? None, I’d say, fits the description he offers.