Reviews

You can tell you’re in a posh family house on stage when there’s salad on the table with a meat meal.   One For Sorrow (the F must be capitalized, so we’re parked at Pretention Central right from the...

Ripping Yarn, or Old Rope? Hogwarts or Hogwash?  Bit of both, really, in Daisy Pulls It Off. I've said before that Guildford School of Acting turns out the best ‘triple threats’: those performers who...

If you think The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is some whimsical reincarnation of the 1969 film with Maggie Smith flitting about Edinburgh in a chiffon scarf dripping witty epigrams about Mussolini – think...

I’m not keen on totemic American screen actors indulging themselves on the London stage, but for Stefanie Powers, Robert Wagner’s glamorous co-star in Hart to Hart, made a willing exception. The...

This is a very good production of a rather unmemorable musical.  As stories about an argumentative mother and daughter go, The Rink is several farmboys short of the picnic that is Gypsy.  Written in...

It’s been a bumper week for rape. Harvey Weinstein was indicted. Tommy Robinson was jailed for filming the accused in a grooming gang trial outside Leeds Crown Court. The world’s most durable feminist...

My favourite character in Tartuffe is Madame Pernelle, the ferocious grandmère who whirls in at the top of act one and in a genius piece of exposition by Molière slags off every single member of the cast in...

'Put it in the tissue paper' sing the cast of The Biograph Girl in its wistful closing number 'they won't want that shadow till another day' and there you have both the motif for the end of the silent film...

guest reviewer Jonathan Loudan The Open Air Theatre in Regent’s park finally has a summer pantomime they can revive with minor tweaks and cast changes for ever, if they so desire. Peter Pan is, in any...

There’s a chapel in a suburb of Houston, Texas, whose hexagonal walls each carry a black or nearly-black canvas by the painter Mark Rothko. When I went there, I thought it a lonely, eerie space which can...