Tag: Patsy Ferran

Posted in Lin-Manuel Miranda Stephen Karam Theatre Theatre review

Review: Speech and Debate, Trafalgar Studios 2

“Please don’t riff” An opportunity to see this play in dress rehearsal was snaffled away from me…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Ancient Greeks Andrew Lloyd Webber Arthur Miller Barbican Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre Cyndi Lauper Duncan Macmillan Howard Goodall Jerry Herman Lin-Manuel Miranda Mark Gatiss Martin McDonagh Menier Chocolate Factory Musicals National Theatre Old Vic Oscar Wilde Robert Icke Royal Court RSC Shakespeare Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre awards Tom Morton-Smith What's On Stage Awards

2016 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James McAvoy, The Ruling Class Bradley…

Posted in Alistair McDowall Evening Standard Theatre Awards Florian Zeller Martin McDonagh Stephen Adly Guirgis Theatre awards

The 2015 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Best Actor Kenneth Cranham, The Father, Ustinov Bath, Tricycle Theatre & Wyndham’s Theatre Ralph Fiennes, Man And…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: As You Like It, National Theatre

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad” For…

Posted in Digital LGBTQ+ RSC Shakespeare Theatre

Review: The Merchant of Venice, RSC at East WinterGarden

“Tell me where is fancy bred” This was actually the first time I’ve been to the cinema…

Posted in Barney Norris Critics Circle Awards Ivo van Hove Mike Bartlett Theatre awards

Critics’ Circle Awards 2014: the winners in full

  Best New Play King Charles III by Mike Bartlett The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical Gypsy…

Posted in Bryony Lavery National Theatre Theatre

Review: Treasure Island, National Theatre

“Thanks for all the pies and adventures” The big family-oriented show at the National Theatre this winter…

Posted in James Graham Theatre Watford Palace

Review: The Angry Brigade, Watford Palace Theatre

“We are slowly destroying the long tentacles of the state machine…” You gotta love a playtext that…

Posted in Noël Coward Theatre West End

Not-a-Review: Blithe Spirit, Gielgud Theatre

“I long ago came to the conclusion that nothing has ever been definitely proved about anything “…