Enter the mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy through Terry Johnson’s new production. If you’re looking for a play to challenge both your intellect and your soul, step away from the musical fantasies of Shaftesbury Avenue and, take a seat at the fabulous new Boulevard Theatre in Walker’s Court Soho for The Sunset Limited. […]
Uncle Vanya – Review
Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Soho. For those who know and hold Uncle Vanya close to their hearts, this production at The Harold Pinter Theatre will delight. For those who are seeing the play for the first time, it is a masterful introduction to one of Chekhov’s finest works. Even for those with […]
The Welkin – Lyttleton at the National Theatre – Review
Twelve Angry Women – The Welkin. Lucy Kirkwood’s latest new play The Welkin, (derived from the Old English word wolcen, or cloud is the vault of the sky) is set in 1759 in rural Suffolk. It tells the story of one woman’s fate after committing a heinous murder of an eleven-year-old girl, daughter to a […]
Four Play – Above the Stag – Review
The Perils of Monogamy Above the Stag specialises in telling LGBTQIA+ stories and has revived Jake Brunger’s highly amusing Four Play, which successfully combines comedy and a serious look at issues like commitment and monogamy among young gay men in 21st century London. One of the great joys of living in London is its thriving […]
Puccini’s La Bohème at the Royal Opera House – Review
The Ultimate Operatic Romance? La Bohème at the Royal Opera House. With our relentless hounding of pop culture icons through the media such as Princess Diana or Amy Winehouse, we are a culture just as obsessed with the ‘femme fragile’ as the late 19th-century audience for whom the consumptive female heroines of Giuseppe Verdi’s La […]
La Traviata at the Royal Opera House – Review
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi – A Revival Worth Catching. It’s the 25th anniversary of Richard Eyre’s landmark production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata and so with the latest revival having just opened at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, we were delighted to be asked to review. La Traviata has one of the great […]
Tried and Tested Christmas Shows for 2019
Theatre, Ballet and Cabaret – our pick of what’s on in London for Christmas 2019. Still looking for some entertainment for the festive season this year? Here are a few of the shows we’ve seen and rate. From ballet to musicals – and a few options for those of you who really don’t want to […]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Review
Neil Gaiman’s novel on stage at the National Theatre – perfect entertainment for older kids. Coming from the fertile imagination of author Neil Gaiman, the National Theatre’s adaptation of his novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane has just opened with a scary flourish at the NT’s Dorfman Theatre. As with the hit […]
Three Sisters – National Theatre – Review
Inua Ellam’s Three Sisters – a Universal Tale. Three Sisters is a new play written by Inua Ellams based on the Chekhov drama of the same name. Chekhov’s play, first staged in 1901, is set in 1850, in a provincial Russian garrison town where the sisters yearn for their home in Moscow. Ellams’ captivating script […]
Christmas Carol – a Fairy Tale at Wilton’s Music Hall, London E1
What if Scrooge were a woman? This is the central conceit of a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ perennial Christmas Carol. And what an interesting question it is! Musical theatre and soap opera super-star, Sally Dexter brilliantly portrays Fan Scrooge, surviving sister of Ebenezer and widow of money-lender Jacob Marley. As in the original Christmas […]