Oh My Sweet Land's call for compassion
By B. Evans Oh My Sweet Land is a beautiful, personal piece of theatre that resists easy categorisation. It is artistically and socially...
Repertoire Theatre: Past, Present and Future?
By Laura Darrall. When I broke the news to my beloved Grandma, a stalwart devotee of The Bill, Coronation Street and the like, that I...
Birdland and the empty promise of celebrity - or - An open love letter to Andrew Scott from a secre
By JBR “I'm sick of the word celebrity. It's so overused now isn’t it? You just hear it everywhere! Celebrity this, celebrity that -...
How do we solve a problem like Maria?
By JBR About five months ago, half my Twitter timeline exploded. Carrie Underwood was, in the opinion of my friends in the US, butchering...
What not to do at Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man
By Emily Hardy Owing to popular demand, Punchdrunk's immersive Hollywood fable has been extended once again. So in case you're yet to...
Handbagged at Dawn: Are transfers transforming the West End?
By E.J.Martin London's main stages are currently fit to burst with things we have seen before. The West End is playing home to an...
Three Sisters, Southwark Playhouse
By B.Evans I always used to feel a little nervous about going to see a Chekhov play. I would worry that I might be bored, and worse...
Stripped down and exposed: Othello at Leicester Square Theatre
By Emily Hardy William Shakespeare is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world. He is cherished, particularly in England, and...
Art for art's sake in The Beautiful Game
By JBR There’s a certain catchphrase that bloggers like to add to their reviews at the moment that really gets on my wick. “It’s so good...
Cast changes and tears at Once the Musical
By Emily Hardy My dad warned me about the quiet ones; it's no surprise then that I can’t get enough of them. (I'm talking about musicals...
