Category: Theatre

Posted in Finborough Theatre Theatre

Review: Carthage, Finborough Theatre

“With my hand on my heart, I don’t know” Brutally effective, unerringly inquisitive, indisputably compelling. January may…

Posted in John Webster Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: The Duchess of Malfi, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

“Are you out of your princely wits?” Review the seat or review the play? Whilst I’d love…

Posted in Readings Theatre West End

Not-a-review: The Undone Years, Theatre Royal Haymarket

Just a quickie to cover this reading of a new play. The Pitch Your Play initiative run…

Posted in Broadway Clarence Derwent Awards Theatre Theatre awards

The 2013 Clarence Derwent Awards

UK – Best male in a supporting role Paul Chahidi as Maria in Twelfth Night UK –…

Posted in Critics Circle Awards Kander + Ebb Lucy Kirkwood Phoebe Waller-Bridge Theatre awards

Critics’ Circle Awards 2013: the winners in full

Best New Play Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood   The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical The Scottsboro Boys…

Posted in Friedrich Schiller New Diorama The Faction Theatre

Review: The Robbers, New Diorama

“He’s the apple of your eye but if that apple do offend, then pluck it out”  The…

Posted in Ancient Greeks Radio Plays Rebecca Lenkiewicz Theatre

Radio Review: The Oresteia – The Furies / November Dead List

“Was he driven to it by someone’s rage?” Last up in the reinvention of Aeschylus’ Oresteia is…

Posted in Samuel Beckett Theatre Young Vic

Review: Happy Days, Young Vic

“Perhaps some day the earth will yield and let me go, the pull is so great, yes,…

Posted in Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: What The Women Did, Southwark Playhouse

“Any of our group would walk out with a German, a Hindu or a Belgian. ‘Oh no,…