Theatre

For a play about a marital bust-up after 32 years, Honour is a surprisingly bland and bloodless piece. Author Joanna Murray-Smith has much more fun with feuding and unfaithful couples in her Australian...

If you thought The Comedy About A Bank Robbery was a strange title, here comes the Comedy About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Soldier On is a brave enterprise of the Soldiers’ Arts Academy charity which...

I love a bit of immersive interactive theatre shiz: The Grift at Bethnal Green’s Town Hall Hotel was last year’s big winner imported from San Diego.  Now from Canada comes Talk is Free Theatre’s The...

I'm fairly sure the land on which the Bridge Theatre was built was once a plague pit, but I'm beginning to wonder if the place isn't itself cursed.  How else can it commission a play by Three Billboards...

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...

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...