Author JohnnyFox

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany swerve into kitchen sink drama with The End of History, a nicely-judged skid through the 20 years from Blair to Brexit in one...

The most lyrical and romantic thing about The Light in the Piazza is its title. That, and the luscious vintage-style 50s costumes which evoke the American idyll of Italy as captured by Audrey Hepburn...

We start with a triple simultaneous orgasm. I'd say that's pretty innovative, because it would take considerable stage managing.On stage love triangles, though, are far from new. Noel Coward shocked...

When I went to see Vanessa Redgrave in The Year of Magical Thinking in New York, we sat in the centre of row C of the Stalls and every time I woke up she seemed to be staring directly at me. There was a...

You could hardly find a more enthusiastic fan of Frasier than me - starting when he was back in Boston and drinking at Cheers. And this is my second time seeing a Kelsey Grammer first night as I was...

My first written review - for a student newspaper - was All My Sons, at the Octagon Theatre Bolton. 45 years, and six thousand seats in the stalls later, we have come full circle and it was with pleasure and...

aRemember the eighties? The big bang, ‘greed is good’, ‘lunch is for wimps’ all that high-sounding ambition before the collapse of Barings? From Michael Douglas’s braces in Wall Street to Joan...

I used to be an immigrant. My first job was in Switzerland and I had to undergo a ‘Foreign Worker’s Medical’ in a freezing cold shed beside Geneva railway station where you were required to trot...

This is as unconventional production of Sweet Charity as you're likely to see. Set firmly in the art milieu of Andy Warhol's Factory, it's so perfectly, silver-foil-wrapped acid-tabbed 1967 it's like you...

Katherine Parkinson is undeniably on a roll. After TV successes in The IT Crowd and Doc Martin she proved her serious acting chops with Dead Funny and is now headlining the National Theatre’s...