Tag: Rob Compton

Posted in Dennis Kelly Film Musicals

Film Review: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022)

Some brilliant set pieces make Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical highly enjoyable, even if it doesn’t quite…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Chichester Festival Theatre Christopher Shinn News Not-London Theatre UK

News: Chichester Festival Theatre casting update for Summer/Autumn 2022

Jenna Russell, Claire Skinner and Harry Lloyd join Chichester Festival Theatre’s Summer/Autumn 2022 season Jenna Russell will lead…

Posted in Silent Witness TV

TV Review: Silent Witness Series 18

As the dust settles on all the recent changes, Series 18 of Silent Witness turns out to…

Posted in Ripper Street TV

TV Review: Ripper Street Series 4

  “Edmund Reid did this” As I might have predicted after the soaring heights of Series 3,…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Bush Theatre Gate Theatre Hope Theatre Lyric Hammersmith Offie Awards Old Red Lion Orange Tree Theatre Print Room Soho Theatre Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre awards Theatre503 Union Theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse Wilton's Music Hall

2016 Offie Award Finalists

Best Female  Clare Higgins for Clarion at the Arcola Theatre  Gemma Whelan for Radiant Vermin at Soho…

Posted in Laurence O'Keefe Musicals Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: Bat Boy The Musical, Southwark Playhouse

“Don’t talk like a slut, dear” It seems scarcely credible that Bat Boy The Musical ever opened in a…

Posted in Alice Birch Barbican Theatre Caryl Churchill Curve Theatre Enda Walsh fosterIANs Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove James Graham Laura Wade Lyric Hammersmith Mike Bartlett Musicals Nick Payne Not-London Orange Tree Theatre Rona Munro Sarah Kane Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Looking ahead to 2015

I realise I’m just adding (belatedly) to the plethora of 2015 features already published but so many…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Theatre West End

Review: A Chorus of Disapproval, Harold Pinter Theatre

“I just want you to know I think you’re a total and utter bastard and that one…

Posted in Charles Dickens Theatre Watford Palace

Review: Great Expectations, ETT at Watford Palace

“I want to be a gentleman” English Touring Theatre’s production of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations relocates the…