Category: Theatre

Posted in Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: State of Fear. Responsibility to…?, Southwark Playhouse

“Do you think we should…maybe…help” Time Zone Theatre’s call for budding playwrights to respond to the current…

Posted in Joe DiPietro Musicals Theatre West End

Re-review: Memphis, Shaftesbury Theatre

“Have a beer drop a time in the blind man’s jar” Never one to look a gift-horse…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: Richard II, Shakespeare’s Globe

“What must the king do now” A late trip to the Globe to catch Richard II (for…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined, Criterion Theatre

“Just take me inside your arms and hold me tight” Now that The 39 Steps has finally…

Posted in Not-London Tennessee Williams Theatre UK

Review: The Glass Menagerie, Nuffield Southampton Theatres

“I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it” The first of what…

Posted in Cockpit Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Merchant of Vembley, Cockpit Theatre

“The ghee that cook your dhal is as clarified as that which cooks our lamb” Shakespeare via…

Posted in Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals Theatre

Review: In The Heights, King’s Cross Theatre

“Well you must take the A Train Even farther than Harlem  To northern Manhattan and maintain  Get…

Posted in Martin McDonagh Royal Court Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2015

Review: Hangmen, Royal Court

“Don’t worry. I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. Or am I? One for…

Posted in Anders Lustgarten Royal Court Theatre

Review: It’s Like the 60s Never Happened, Royal Court

  “We seek out revolution wherever we can find it” The Royal Court’s The Big Idea strand…