Tag: James Doherty

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TV Review: The Sister

Not even with Neil Cross writing and Russell Tovey and Bertie Carvel starring can I recommend the…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Motherland (Series 2)

The second series of Motherland continues to peel back layers of articifice around cultural ideas of motherhood…

Posted in Cast Recordings Michel Legrand Music Musicals

Album Review: Marguerite (2008 Original London Cast Recording)

  “Come see the show, She will neither know nor care” It is always fascinating to listen…

Posted in Christmas Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Review: Aladdin, Lyric Hammersmith

“You don’t get that quality of dance at Sadler’s Wells” There’s something wonderfully political about the Lyric…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Barney Norris Theatre

Review: Eventide, Arcola Theatre

“It’s hard to get things right while they happen to you” With his second play Eventide, one…

Posted in Film Moira Buffini Musicals Theatre

Film Review: London Road (2015)

“Everybody’s very very nervous” The theatrical production of London Road was a major success for the National…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Musicals National Theatre Theatre

Re-review: London Road, National Theatre

“Begonias, and… petunias, and… um, impatiens and things” Technically speaking this is a re-re-review of London Road,…

Posted in Peter Morgan TV

TV Review: The Jury

Part of Helen McCrory weekend “I know first hand the cruelty he’s capable of” Though North Square…