Category: London and West End

Summer and Smoke – Review

Anne Cox | March 16, 2018

The dizzying brightness and heat of summer plays as big a part in Tennessee Williams’s plays as the vulnerable, flawed characters that inhabit their pages. And, despite no

London and West End

Brief Encounter – Review

Anne Cox | March 12, 2018

“I love you. I love your wide eyes, the way you smile, your shyness, and the way you laugh at my jokes”. “Please don’t”. “I love you. I

London and West End

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em – Review

Anne Cox | March 9, 2018

It takes a bold writer willing to reinvent a British institution and an even braver entertainer prepared to portray a comic icon so closely associated with one man.

London and West End

The Best Man – Review

Anne Cox | March 8, 2018

Politics has always been a controversial business and US politics has attracted worldwide interest for decades. So, with Mr Trump trying – and failing miserably – to win

London and West End

Harold and Maude – Review

Sarah Cox | February 26, 2018

I’ve never understood this mania for black. I mean no one sends black flowers, do they? Black flowers are dead flowers, and who would send dead flowers to

London and West End

Jubilee – Review

Anne Cox | February 21, 2018

Derek Jarman’s anarchic, rebellious, seminal punk anthem, Jubilee, was an iconic film of the 1970s that captured the raucous, angry mood of a generation in despair. Forty years

London and West End

Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Review

Anne Cox | February 7, 2018

Broken dreams and profound despair fill every minute of Eugene O’Neill’s epic melodrama, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Richard Eyre’s terrific West End transfer which opened last

London and West End

John – Review

Anne Cox | February 5, 2018

Tell me a scary story. A young couple check into a B&B to spend a few days touring Gettysburg – but instead of soaking up history, about a

London and West End

London’s new Bridge Theatre, and its artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, flex their muscles with an innovative and punchy, modern-dress production of Shakespeare’s political play, Julius Caesar, which opened