Category: Reviews

Brass – Review

Anne Cox | November 14, 2018

As we mark #Armistice100 it seems right that Benjamin Till’s award-winning musical, Brass, should return to remind us, as if we need any reminding, of the terrible price

Harold Pinter Theatre

Pinter at the Pinter – Pinter Three & Four – Review

Anne Cox | November 11, 2018

The Pinter at the Pinter season continues with parts Three and Four which showcase both Pinter’s comic brilliance and his ability to move an audience. Pinter Three opened

Reviews

The Nightingales – Review

Anne Cox | November 9, 2018

Actor and writer William Gaminara plumbs Ayckbourn territory for The Nightingales, an odd bird which has just opened at Theatre Royal Bath with TV actress Ruth Jones tempted

Park Theatre

A Pupil – Review

Anne Cox | November 7, 2018

Musicians have a reputation for being highly strung and that finely tuned temperament is tested to the extreme in Jesse Briton’s absorbing new play, A Pupil, which opened

Reviews

Rebus : Long Shadows – Review

Anne Cox | November 7, 2018

Old sins have long shadows and none more so than the past indescretions of maverick detective, John Rebus, writer Ian Rankin’s notorious cop, who has now made the

Reviews

The Greater Game – Review

Anne Cox | November 6, 2018

Everyone has an anecdote about the war – any war – and this week, when those who fought for their country are uppermost in everyone’s minds, playwright and

King’s Head Theatre

Brexit – Review

Jack Solloway | November 4, 2018

Brexit is a farce. Of all the things Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s Brexit could have been, their critically acclaimed satire about the current Euro-debacle is not the

Park Theatre

Honour – Review

Anne Cox | November 3, 2018

There’s no fool like an old fool and silky smooth Times columnist George Spencer, in the grips of a midlife crisis, is the epitome of foolishness. Joanna Murray-Smith’s

Reviews

Soldier On – Review

Anne Cox | November 1, 2018

It’s hard to separate fact from fiction when watching Soldier On, the latest in a series of stage productions featuring former service personnel who are using acting as

Drayton Arms Theatre

Baby – Review

Anne Cox | October 26, 2018

David Shire and Richard Maltby Jnr‘s 1983 Broadway hit, Baby, has finally made it over the pond for a UK premiere in London but you have to ask

Lyric Hammersmith

othellomacbeth – Review

Jack Solloway | October 18, 2018

Director Jude Christian’s othellomacbeth, two-for-one offer on Shakespearean tragedies at the Lyric Hammersmith, sounds like a bad idea. Crammed into two and half hours, there’s too much material

Reviews

In Praise Of Love – Review

Anne Cox | October 16, 2018

Terence Rattigan was understandably consumed with thoughts of love and death – and the right way to die – when he wrote his last great play, In Praise