Featured Stories
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Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
27 November 2011 3:35 PM | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen.
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Review – Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
27 November 2011 2:15 PM | 1 CommentA couple of years ago the idea of Lenny Henry as a Shakespearean actor was a joke. No longer.
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Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
22 October 2011 9:50 AM | 4 CommentsA guest blog (guest blog!)
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Review – Simon Callow in Tuesdays at Tescos, Assembly Hall
20 August 2011 9:28 AM | 1 CommentWhat an embarrassing title. I'm embarrassed by it, and I'm not even Simon Callow. ★★
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Review – The Wheel, Traverse Theatre
14 August 2011 10:05 PM | No CommentsInteresting and technically excellent, but lacking in characters to care about. ★★★
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Archive for June, 2010
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Review – Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Young Vic
Posted on June 6, 2010 | 2 CommentsIt’s a little bit difficult to quite work out what August Wilson’s play, now running at the Young Vic, is driving at. -
Review – After The Dance, National Theatre
Posted on June 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsAfter the Dance Was there a time when plays by Rattigan didn’t feel tired and creaky? Surely even at the time of their premiere everybody turned to the tweed tail-coated person next to them and said “Gosh, feels a little old fashioned, doesn’t it old... -
RE: Recent appointment as Theatre Critic
Posted on June 3, 2010 | No CommentsDear Sirs, I am writing on behalf of the Honourable Alliance of Theatre Critics for Real Newspapers to express my concern about your organisation’s recent appointment to the role of Theatre Critic in Chief. This is a role which I sometimes compare in importance to...
