Noël Coward Theatre
The Night of the Iguana – Review
| July 17, 2019
Tennessee Williams knew how to write about society’s underbelly. In The Night of the Iguana, which opened last night in the West End, he throws together a disparate
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Reviews
Equus – Review
| July 17, 2019
Peter Shaffer’s shocking, disturbing and provocative thriller, Equus, galloped back into the West End this week with an electrifying revival from Ned Bennett. The English Touring Theatre and
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Harold Pinter Theatre
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
| July 11, 2019
The stage adaptation of Captain Corellis’ Mandolin, Louis De Bernières’ award-winning book about love in the war-torn Island of Cephalonia, has come to London’s West End after a
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Jack Studio Theatre
One Giant Leap – Review
| July 7, 2019
It’s 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing, when Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the Moon and utter the most famous words in
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Reviews
Measure for Measure – Review
| July 5, 2019
We might think that the sex-for-favours and #MeToo scandal is a modern phenomenon. But Shakespeare had exposed the depraved trade-off more than 400 years ago in Measure for
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Lyric Hammersmith
Noises Off – Review
| July 3, 2019
The ‘technical difficulties’ that unexpectedly halted the opening night of Noises Off at the Lyric Hammersmith brought the house down. They couldn’t have been funnier than if they’d
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Reviews
Present Laughter – Review
| June 28, 2019
Noël Coward would have thoroughly approved of Andrew Scott’s gloriously outrageous turn as ageing matinée idol, Garry Essendine, in The Old Vic’s reinvention of Present Laughter. Scott, aided
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Reviews
Blithe Spirit – Review
| June 20, 2019
Jennifer Saunders is well used to conjuring up a cast of bizarre characters for her TV sitcoms. So channelling the ghost of the late, great, Margaret Rutherford, for
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Park Theatre
Napoli, Brooklyn – Review
| June 19, 2019
Meghan Kennedy crams a lot into her coming-of-age drama, Napoli, Brooklyn – from child abuse and sadistic torture to a plane crash over New York and a downpour
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Chichester Festival Theatre
Plenty – Review
| June 14, 2019
David Hare’s Plenty, a story about post war disillusionment coupled with a woman – a nation – struggling to get back on its feet, caused considerable controversy when
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Reviews
The Pope – Review
| June 13, 2019
Anthony McCarten’s new play, The Pope, goes behind the pomp, ceremony and politics of the Vatican City to look at a pivotal moment in papal history when the
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Park Theatre
Beneath The Blue Rinse – Review
| June 4, 2019
Those over a certain age will recognise the patronising tone, the condescension. Where once they had been respected by the younger generation they are now treated with disregard
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