Reviews

Guest reviewer: Gloria Trubshaw Old Spice: If you couldn’t obtain/afford/be bothered to get tickets for the Spice Girls’ re-re-reunion, Denim The Reunion Tour may just be the very thing you’ve been...

I'd been looking forward to The Simon and Garfunkel Story thinking how much theirs was the music of my coming of age years - but It's funny what tricks your memory plays because Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel...

It’s always a pleasure to hear an untold story. In Billy Bishop Goes to War we learn about a baby-faced Canadian teenager who by a string of lucky chances became the world’s most decorated fighter pilot in...

I wonder if in years to come we'll look back on the 'Theatre of Brexit' in the same way we analyse Shakespeare's treatment of Agincourt, or the Trojan Wars in Sophocles?   Those sunlit uplands from...

Marie’s Crisis – look it up, I’m not telling you how it got its name – is a Greenwich Village institution. Sometime whorehouse, now popular gay bar which from 8pm each evening plays nothing but show...

For a play about a marital bust-up after 32 years, Honour is a surprisingly bland and bloodless piece. Author Joanna Murray-Smith has much more fun with feuding and unfaithful couples in her Australian...

If you thought The Comedy About A Bank Robbery was a strange title, here comes the Comedy About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Soldier On is a brave enterprise of the Soldiers’ Arts Academy charity which...

I love a bit of immersive interactive theatre shiz: The Grift at Bethnal Green’s Town Hall Hotel was last year’s big winner imported from San Diego.  Now from Canada comes Talk is Free Theatre’s The...

What you really need after a hard day at work is to watch a woman in a bloodstained nightie go mad in a dilapidated Scottish castle after stabbing her husband. Except you do.  When the madwoman playing the...

I'm fairly sure the land on which the Bridge Theatre was built was once a plague pit, but I'm beginning to wonder if the place isn't itself cursed.  How else can it commission a play by Three Billboards...