Reviews

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was a polite, genial, diffident actor. Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp is a polite, genial, diffident comedian.They are clearly made for each other, and in this gentle, charming...

At last, Rufus Norris’s National Theatre has come of age. ` Breathtaking, brave and brilliantly acted, Downstate is a landmark play. It’s listed as a ‘collaboration’ between NT and Steppenwolf,...

Darren and Andrew look like two East End plumbers who’ve turned up to fix Barbara Windsor’s downstairs leak. They’re the last people you’d imagine could be an ace mind-reading act. Formerly two...

One of the best things about Admissions at Trafalgar Studios is how far it will get up the noses of the ‘woke’ twitterati. I can think of a couple of agenda-toting print critics who'll also be hammering...

Guest reviewer Franco Milazzo isn't moved in time or space.You'd need a bus pass to actually remember it, but few TV series from the late Fifties made as much of an impact as The Twilight Zone. At the dawn of...

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...