West End
Backbeat, Duke of York's TheatreTuesday, 11 October 2011
It’s obviously a coincidence. Backbeat, the story of The Beatles’ Hamburg days, their ill-fated bassist and John Lennon's art-school mate Stuart Sutcliffe hits the West End the same week that Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary Living in... Read more... |
Driving Miss Daisy, Wyndham's TheatreThursday, 06 October 2011
You can accuse Alfred Uhry's 1987 play Driving Miss Daisy of many things – being overtly sentimental is top of the charge sheet – but you certainly cannot claim that it’s a case of false advertising. Even if, like this critic, you missed the... Read more... |
Cool Hand Luke, Aldwych TheatreTuesday, 04 October 2011
The human spirit won't be easily vanquished, or so we're led to believe from Cool Hand Luke, which in itself should provide succour to those trapped at this stage adaptation of the novel that inspired the movie - still with me? - in the days and... Read more... |
Broken Glass, Vaudeville TheatreTuesday, 20 September 2011
Arthur Miller is one of those geniuses whose plays are metaphor-rich even when their storytelling is slow. First staged in 1994, Broken Glass is surely his best late-period drama, and this revival, directed by Iqbal Khan, arrives in the West End... Read more... |
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