Author: Ian

Posted in David Hare Film Film & TV awards Golden Globe Awards John Patrick Shanley Peter Morgan TV

The 66th Golden Globe Awards – nominations

Best Motion Picture – Drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon The Reader Revolutionary Road Slumdog…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Almeida Theatre Anton Chekhov Christopher Shinn David Eldridge David Mamet Donmar Warehouse Enda Walsh Harley Granville Barker Kenneth Branagh Lee Hall Marvin Hamlisch Menier Chocolate Factory Michel Legrand Musicals National Theatre Neil LaBute Old Vic Open Air Theatre Pam Gems Theatre Theatre awards What's On Stage Awards Yasmina Reza

2009 What’s On Stage Award nominations

THE SPOTLIGHT BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Katy Stephens – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse  Deanna Dunagan…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Harley Granville Barker Theatre

Review: Waste, Almeida Theatre

Waste, a play by Harley Granville Barker, is another one of those plays that was banned when…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Donmar Warehouse Kenneth Branagh Theatre West End

Review: Ivanov, Wyndham’s Theatre

I have long struggled with Chekhov, I’ve never really seen the attraction or seen a production that…

Posted in LGBTQ+ National Theatre Rebecca Lenkiewicz Theatre

Review: Her Naked Skin, National Theatre

Much of the talk about Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new play Her Naked Skin has focused on the rather…

Posted in Dance National Theatre Theatre

Review: in-i, National Theatre

in-i marks a remarkable collaboration between dancer/choreographer Akram Khan and actress Juliette Binoche in which they dared…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: The Lion King, Lyceum

  It took a long time for me to be convinced that going to see The Lion…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Jamie Lloyd Musicals Pam Gems Theatre

Review: Piaf, Donmar Warehouse

I’m not one for standing ovations really, a show has to be beyond superb and really move…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Musicals Robert Lopez Theatre West End

Review: Avenue Q with Daniel Boys, Noël Coward

As you may be able to intuit from its regular appearance here, I have become more than…