Reviews

Here’s an eminently grabbable chance to catch the waspish comedian Tom Allen midway between his ten-year Edinburgh novitiate and a permanent seat on every Radio 4 panel show until radio is no more. Allen has...

I have history with The Country Wife. As a drama student I learned the role of Harcourt in 24 hours when illness devastated the cast at the Nuffield Theatre Lancaster. The reviewer from the Guardian stayed...

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 at the Young Vic. At the end of the...

Side by Side, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Spoonful of Sherman, a Shovelful of … Schwartz, Songs from the Shows, a somewhat unenchanted evening with <insert name here> – may the gods preserve us from...

There’s something strange about the Arts Theatre. It claims to be a West End house but it only has affiliate status with the Society of London Theatre and it doesn’t look or feel like its distant cousins...

Fearing ‘yet another’ one-woman show about Judy Garland, I almost missed out on Songs for Nobodies, but three things conspired to make it rather special. First, the actress in the role, ‘world famous...

It’s always a buzz when London gets a new theatre space. Now, diagonally opposite across Leicester Square there are two, each coincidentally producing an actor-musician wartime show. One is amazing, the...

Has the Menier Chocolate Factory come to the end of the road? If you want to know how it feels to be trapped in some nightmare prison with no prospect of release, sit in the middle of a row for its current...

A thousand years ago – oh dear, I went for my 25th birthday – there was Side by Side by Sondheim, a revue made from thirty songs extracted from the then impressive canon of Stephen Sondheim including eight...

I’ve known for a while that Edward Albee wanted Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to be a quartet for four gay men, and pondered how Noel Coward’s Private Lives would work if all four partners were also...