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Posted in Anders Lustgarten Soho Theatre Theatre

Review: Lampedusa, Soho Theatre

“Blaming ‘fucking migrants’ for every single thing we don’t like about ourselves” There’s something rather ingenious about…

Posted in Arthur Miller Ivo van Hove Mike Bartlett Olivier Awards Theatre Theatre awards

2015 Laurence Olivier Awards winners

Best New Play  King Charles III by Mike Bartlett – Almeida / Wyndham’s Taken at Midnight by…

Posted in Musicals Richard Bean Theatre West End

Review: the final night of Made in Dagenham, Adelphi

“Everybody out…” So here we have it, barely six months after opening, the machinery at Ford Dagenham…

Posted in April De Angelis Kiln Theatre Theatre

Review: After Electra, Tricycle Theatre

“How long was it supposed to go on – this mother thing?” On the one hand, it’s…

Posted in Broadway David Hare Kander + Ebb Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals Not-London Outer Critics Circle Awards Penelope Skinner Peter Morgan Simon Stephens Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre awards

Nominations for 2014-2015 Outer Critics Circle Awards

John Gassner Playwriting Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) Ayad Akhtar, The…

Posted in George Bernard Shaw National Theatre Theatre

Can’t Be Fecked With A Review: Man and Superman, National Theatre

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the…

Posted in Broadway Duncan Macmillan Ivo van Hove Jeanine Tesori Lin-Manuel Miranda Lucille Lortel Awards Musicals Not-London Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Sondheim Suzan-Lori Parks Terrence McNally Theatre Theatre awards Tom Stoppard

Nominations for 2015 Lucille Lortel Awards

Outstanding Play Between Riverside and Crazy Produced by Atlantic Theater Company. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis Father…

Posted in Arthur Miller Not-London RSC Theatre UK

Review: Death of a Salesman, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

“Certain men just don’t get started ‘til later in life” To criticise an RSC production of being…

Posted in James Graham Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: Coalition, Channel 4

  “No Lib Dem leader has ever had this kind of exposure and opportunity” James Graham definitely…