Category: Shakespeare

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthony Neilson April De Angelis Barbican Theatre Bridge Project David Lindsay-Abaire Dennis Kelly Donmar Warehouse Eugene O'Neill Hampstead Theatre Jason Robert Brown Jeanine Tesori Lyric Hammersmith Mark Gatiss Menier Chocolate Factory Mike Leigh Morgan Lloyd Malcolm National Theatre Old Vic Open Air Theatre Penelope Skinner Richard Bean Royal Court RSC Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Southwark Playhouse Stiles + Drewe Terence Rattigan Theatre awards Union Theatre Vivienne Franzmann What's On Stage Awards

2012 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY James Corden – One Man, Two Guvnors at the National, Lyttelton & Adelphi  Benedict…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: The Comedy of Errors, National Theatre

“How ill agrees it with your gravity to counterfeit thus grossly with your slave” Ephesus is London,…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

Film Review: The Merchant of Venice (2004)

“If you tickle us, do we not laugh” I remember loving this 2004 film of The Merchant…

Posted in Not-London Propeller Shakespeare Theatre UK Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Review: Henry V, Propeller at Yvonne Arnaud

“May I with right and conscience make this claim” After the phenomenal success of their pairing of…

Posted in Film Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

DVD Review: Othello, Shakespeare’s Globe

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?When this advice is free I give and…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre Young Vic

Review: Hamlet, Young Vic

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” The Young Vic continues to…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Macbeth, Crypt of St Andrew, Holborn

“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment?” The rise of…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre West End

Review: The Tempest, Theatre Royal Haymarket

“Make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hours” Very occasionally I see a…

Posted in Shakespeare Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Southwark Playhouse

“Here’s a snip and nip and cut and slish and slash” Robin Norton-Hale has been responsible for…