Category: Theatre

Posted in Lorraine Hansberry National Theatre Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2016 Yaël Farber

Review: Les Blancs, National Theatre

“Do you think the rape of a continent dissolves in cigarette smoke?” To think that just a…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Cast Recordings Duncan Sheik Music Musicals Theatre

Album Review: American Psycho (London Cast Recording)

  “Let’s be clear, there’s nothing ironic About our love of Manolo Blahnik” So in a slightly…

Posted in Bush Theatre Theatre

Review: Right Now (À Présent), Bush Theatre

“It’s exactly like yours, but the other way around” As any fule kno, purple underwear had its…

Posted in Cast Recordings Howard Goodall Music Musicals Theatre

Album Review: Bend it like Beckham (Original London Cast Album)

  “It’s a little bit Punjab And a little bit UK” It’s been just about a month…

Posted in Not-London RSC Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

 “This bodes some strange eruption to our state” It shouldn’t be newsworthy in this day and age…

Posted in Not-London Nottingham Playhouse Tennessee Williams Theatre UK

Review: The Glass Menagerie, Nottingham Playhouse

“But Mother ‘Yes?’ I’m crippled” You might, not unreasonably, think that I’d had my fill of Glass…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Neil LaBute Theatre

Review: Reasons to be Happy, Hampstead Theatre

“That’s like practically incest” Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Happy actually takes the form of a sequel…

Posted in Duncan Macmillan National Theatre Theatre West End

Re-review: People, Places and Things, Wyndham’s Theatre

“I want to live vividly” There’s something rather apposite about the rush to label Denise Gough’s performance…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Jackie the Musical, Churchill Bromley

“Jackie – a woman of a certain age” I don’t remember reading my big sister’s copies of…