Tag: Thomas Arnold

Posted in Film

Film Review: Heart of Stone (2023)

Netflix continue to roll out soulless if watchable blockbusters like this Gal Gadot-starring Heart of Stone “Stay…

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 TV

TV Review: A Spy Among Friends

Damian Lewis and Anna Maxwell Martin deliver compelling performances but the six episodes of A Spy Among…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Bristol Old Vic News Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Touring UK

News: Cast announced for Complicité’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Award-winning, international touring company Complicité (The Encounter, Can I Live?) has announced the full casting for the…

Posted in Anthony Neilson LGBTQ+ Lucy Prebble TV

TV Review: I Hate Suzie

Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble reunite and collaborate to great success with the sharply funny I Hate…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Andrew Lloyd Webber Arthur Schnitzler Barbican Theatre Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Donmar Warehouse Lucy Prebble Michael John LaChiusa Musicals Old Vic Robert Icke Sara Bareilles Tennessee Williams Theatre West End

August theatre round-up

I might have taken a break from reviewing for the last couple of months, but I didn’t…

Posted in Shakespeare TV

TV Review: Will

I finally get round to watching all of Will, not a show that’ll be remembered I’m afraid…

Posted in Old Vic Stephen Beresford Theatre Theatre review

Review: Fanny and Alexander, Old Vic

Fancy three and a half hours of Ingmar Bergman? At least the Old Vic’s seats are comfortable…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Barbican Theatre Blanche McIntyre Chichester Festival Theatre Conor McPherson fosterIANs Hope Theatre Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove LGBTQ+ Lin-Manuel Miranda Martin Sherman Mike Bartlett Musicals National Theatre New Diorama Old Vic Shakespeare Stiles + Drewe Theatre Tony Kushner Top moments

11 of my top moments in a theatre in 2017

As ever, the wait for the end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances has to continue until…