Reviews

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,...

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...