Theatre Reviews
The Moderate Soprano, Duke of York's Theatre review - love and opera with a flinty edgeSaturday, 14 April 2018
"What could be more serious than married life?" asked Richard Strauss, whose operas became a surprising pillar of Glyndebourne's repertoire some time after the early days dramatised in David Hare's play. Read more... |
Chicago, Phoenix Theatre review - baggy revival picks up later paceFriday, 13 April 2018
Chicago has been on, in one form or another, for a very long time. Read more... |
Quiz, Noël Coward Theatre, review - entertaining confectionWednesday, 11 April 2018
You could be forgiven for not remembering the “coughing major” brouhaha in 2001, coming as it did the day before 9/11, when we had rather more pressing matters to attend to than a contestant being accused of cheating on television quiz show. But playwright James Graham has mined an entertaining confection from the affair and its subsequent court case in 2003. Read more... |
The Country Wife, Southwark Playhouse review – knowing Restoration updateThursday, 05 April 2018
Even in its successful early days Wycherley’s 1675 comedy was notorious, but it was considered too lewd to be staged at all between the mid-Eighteenth Century and 1924. Although the play has found an affectionate place in the canon in more recent times, it makes a kind of sense to transpose the goings on of louche Restoration aristocrats to the era of the Bright Young Things, the time of its rediscovery. Read more... |
White Guy on the Bus, Finborough Theatre review - a moral tale of Pennsylvania's divisionsSaturday, 31 March 2018
Ros and Ray are old hippies made good. She’s a hard-bitten, hard-working teacher in an inner-city Pennsylvania school where her pupils rob 7-Elevens on Fridays and the staff have a betting pool on how many times she gets called "white bitch". Read more... |
The Inheritance, Young Vic review - a long day’s journey into lightThursday, 29 March 2018
About a decade ago, theatre-makers started routinely describing themselves as being in the business of storytelling. Read more... |
Black Men Walking, Royal Court review - inspiring and exhilaratingFriday, 23 March 2018
In the same week that saw the arrival of Arinzé Kene’s Misty, a play that passionately questions the clichés of plays about black Britons (you know, gun crime, knife crime and domestic abuse), Black Men Walking opens at the Royal Court. Read more... |
Misty, Bush Theatre review - powerful meditation on how we tell storiesFriday, 23 March 2018
Arinzé Kene is having a bit of a moment. He won an Evening Standard Film Award for The Pass opposite Russell Tovey in 2016, is about to appear in a BBC drama with Paddy Considine, and has just finished lending his lovely tenor to Conor McPherson’s Girl from the North Country in the West End. Read more... |
The Plough and the Stars, Lyric Hammersmith review - trenchant reimagining of Irish classicThursday, 22 March 2018
Sean Holmes is artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, yet his revival of this seminal Irish play has taken two years to come home to him. The production was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, the miserably bloody six-day revolt that gave birth to the Republic of Ireland. It has since been seen by more than 50,000 people. Read more... |
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Menier Chocolate Factory review - brilliantly performed and imaginatively stagedWednesday, 21 March 2018
No, this isn't the large-scale Kander and Ebb musical, which opened in 1992 in London before transferring for a sizeable run on Broadway. Read more... |
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