Reviews

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...

Robert Icke clearly hopes to reinvigorate Ibsen the way he did for Shakespeare with the exceptional Andrew Scott Hamlet. His conversational, documentary production of The Wild Duck makes this complex morality...

The Roar of the Greasepaint meets the smell of sour grapes in Wise Children at the Old Vic. ‘Now listen carefully’ says the wonderful Gareth Snook hosting the proceedings as 75-year old chorus girl Dora...

I first thought The Distance You Have Come referred to the off-off-off West End location of The Cockpit in an ill-lit side street between Marylebone and Paddington stations – although it is a venue for which...

Neil Patrick Harris may have told the Tonys audience that Theatre “is not just for gays any more” but he clearly wasn’t at the opening night of Company.  You could have died from the cloud of Tom Ford...

Over the weekend I'll write a longer and more personal reflection on Company.  For now, here's my Londonist review: UNLIMITED : COMPANY @ Gielgud Theatre  W1   Marianne Elliott’s...

It would be hard to imagine a play about young gay lives that speaks more eloquently to older gay men than the moving, informative and often hilarious The Inheritance now transferred to the Noel Coward...