Category: Theatre

Posted in DC Moore National Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: Common, National Theatre

“If I were a man you’d call me rogue; let us do with whore, liar, thief, cunt”…

Posted in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Orange Tree Theatre Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2017

Review: An Octoroon, Orange Tree Theatre

“I invented matinées bitches, look it up!” You wouldn’t have put money on Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: Annie, Piccadilly Theatre

“‘Steada treated We get tricked” With a singing style that is as strong as Theresa May’s record…

Posted in Broadway David Hein Drama Desk Awards Irene Sankoff JT Rogers Musicals Not-London Theatre Theatre awards

Winners of the 2017 Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Play If I Forget, by Steven Levenson, Roundabout Theatre Company Indecent, by Paula Vogel, Vineyard Theatre A Life,…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Martin Crimp Theatre

Not-a-review: The Treatment, Almeida Theatre

I didn’t much like it  

Posted in Isley Lynn News Theatre

Round-up of news and treats and other interesting things

In Bechdel Testing Life, Bechdel Theatre presents four short plays by Isley Lynn, Rabiah Hussain, Guleraana Mir, and…

Posted in Bertolt Brecht Bruce Norris Donmar Warehouse Theatre Theatre review

Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse

“Any suggestion of a correlation between the leader of a certain nation and the homicidal gangsters we…

Posted in Adam Gwon Musicals Theatre Theatre review

Review: Ordinary Days, London Theatre Workshop

“If everyone’s got a big picture How come my picture’s something that I still have yet to…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre review West End

Re-review: The Girls, Phoenix Theatre

“There is nothing in Nepal More scary than the step from the kitchen to the hall” So…