Author JohnnyFox

What are your plans for retirement? In your seventies (Juliet Mills) or eighties (Philip Lowrie) could you imagine working six nights a week and shifting location every Sunday to unfamiliar accommodation and...

'Check, please!' says guest reviewer Ms. Max Black. Waitress the 2007 movie was a surprise hit.  Dark with the shadow of Jeremy Sisto’s brooding thug, warm with the glow of Nathan Fillion’s...

Art might never have seen the light of British theatres had not Sean Connery and his francophone wife seen a Paris production in 1994 and bought the rights.  Its author, Yasmina Reza, thought she had written...

Sometimes you sit through a tedious play thinking ‘I’m losing the will to live’ – but in My Brother’s Keeper you have a refreshing converse: a well-written play about the will to live. In what...

Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow comes barrelling into the Coliseum in a freshly ribald translation by April de Angelis and Richard Thomas that makes its heroine the feminist survivor of a deathbed marriage...

Trudging up the skunk-scented Caledonian Road on an Arsenal home game Wednesday you’re aware how gritty are these off-West-End streets and how little has changed since the 1980s setting of Call Me Vicky. ...

Unprepossessing start in the yard of a tyre warehouse in - well, an undisclosed location (till 4pm on the day) on the upper reaches of the Victoria Line.  Namecheck, wristbands, an Asahi beer and then through...

I was excited to see Black Swan Theatre’s production of Our Town partly because a version is coming to London’s Open Air Theatre this summer, and partly because I wanted to see an Australian take on...

There is a recipe for these total immersion theatre experiences. First take the biggest, oldest and rambling-est building you can lay your tiny subsidised hands on, then fill it with a random assortment...

Disabled characters in TV soaps. Ability awareness in theatres. The Paralympics. All good consciousness-raising tropes for the recognition and support of differently-abled actors, and people in general,...