DV8 bring precision and power to the Lyttleton stage with 'John'
B.Evans This is a raw, brutal and poetic piece of work, which I highly recommend. John tells a powerful story, invigorated and elevated...
"We've come a long way backwards" This ISN'T a review of Sunny Afternoon
By JBR Why are you reading this? Are you thinking about gong to see Sunny Afternoon and wondering what I thought of it? Are you about to...
"Run, Urinetown! Run!" Why the world will end if you don't see this show...
"What kind of a musical is this?!" cries Little Sally. The good kind. By E.L Hardy Susannah Clapp (for the Guardian) described Miss...
'Freefall' at The Pleasance
By EJ I never read the blurb for shows. Never. I think it’s because I like surprises. I don’t like anything to give the game away,...
Memphis, Shaftesbury Theatre
By E.L Hardy Memphis is outrageously good: As soon as the onstage band strike up the opening chords of David Bryan's peppy, soulful...
No rival for 'The Rivals'
By L. Darrall Restoration comedies can be loquacious at the best of times and Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, is one of the...
Neville's Island, Duke of York's Theatre
By Megan Prosser “We come in peace! We are businessmen from Salford!” Megan Prosser travels to Neville’s Island, and wonders whether the...
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living In Paris, Charing Cross Theatre
By Megan Prosser “ ’Til the rancid sound of the accordion busts” Megan Prosser, long time Brel devotee goes underground expecting...
The Hundred We Are, the Yard Theatre
By Eva Jackson The Hundred We Are anthropomorphises psychic apparatus with poetry, and it just might show you a bit of yourself. Jonas...
The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Trafalgar Studios
By Helena Payne For a man who enriched our cultural cannon with some of the most entertaining farces and thoughtful tragedies the world...
