Category: Writers

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 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 Gina Gionfriddo Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: Rapture, Blister, Burn, Hampstead Theatre

“You either have a career and wind up lonely and sad, or you have a family and…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Bush Theatre David Greig Finborough Theatre Frank McGuinness Gate Theatre Offie Awards Phoebe Waller-Bridge Print Room Soho Theatre Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre awards Theatre Royal Stratford East Theatre503 Tom Wells Union Theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse

2014 Offie Award Finalists

Best Female Leanne Best for The Match Box at The Tricycle  Lucy Ellinson for Grounded at The…

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Samuel Adamson Theatre

Re-review: The Light Princess, National Theatre

A review of the fourth time I went to see The Light Princess at the National?  What…

Posted in National Theatre Nick Payne Theatre

Review: Blurred Lines, National Theatre

“I’d be surprised if part of the audience didn’t feel alienated” A dissection of “what it means…