Category: Theatre

Posted in Alistair McDowall Arcola Theatre Barney Norris Bush Theatre Finborough Theatre Gate Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre King's Head Theatre Offie Awards Orange Tree Theatre Samuel Adamson Soho Theatre Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre awards

2015 Offie Award Winners

Best Female Linda Bassett for Visitors at The Bush and the Arcola Theatre Laura Jane Matthewson for…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Not-London Theatre UK VAULT Festival

Preview: Elegy at the VAULT Festival and Brighton’s Pink Fringe

  “Some stories are more powerful than others” I’m not normally one for doing preview pieces but…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Patrick Marber Theatre

Review: Closer, Donmar Warehouse

“I love everything about you that hurts” Obnoxious people doing obnoxious things for well over two hours…

Posted in Cockpit Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Hamlet, Cockpit Theatre

“Be all my sins remembered” Sitting through English Repertory Theatre’s reconceived version of Hamlet, it struck me…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre West End

Re-reviews: Di and Viv and Rose / Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

“It was a ball, it was a blast It was a shame it couldn’t last” A half-term…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Theatre Tom Stoppard

Review: Arcadia, Churchill Theatre Bromley

“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone on…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: She Loves Me, Landor Theatre

“Still I’m incandescent Like an adolescent” There’s always something difficult about seeing a show after the notices…

Posted in Arthur Miller Ivo van Hove Theatre West End

Review: A View From The Bridge, Wyndham’s Theatre

“Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone.” What more is there to say about a play that was…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Lee Hall Mark Gatiss Musicals National Theatre Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre awards What's On Stage Awards Young Vic

Winners of the 2015 What’s On Stage Awards

Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian David Tennant – Richard II (25%) Mark…