Reviews

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...

Is it 'racist' not to love Porgy and Bess? In the 75 years between the abolition of slavery and the rise of the Civil Rights movement, South Carolina kept its black population ‘free’ but constrained by...

Guest reviewer: breathless girl scout reporter Gloria Trubshaw   Plays for poor theatre: in Brexit Britain, once we’re reduced to eating rats whilst clutching our blue passports, a Shakespeare...

Plays like this are a gift to writers with word count limits - here you go, that's 20% of a Londonist or 15% of an Evening Standard review completed just by copying the title.  I narrowly missed seeing A...

One of the reasons I decided to leave the London Gay Men’s Chorus was that we were obliged to learn complex choreography to Jai Ho, the thumping Oscar-winning Bollywood anthem A R Rahman wrote to underscore...