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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national theatre Archive
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Review – Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
Posted on November 27, 2011 | 1 CommentA couple of years ago the idea of Lenny Henry as a Shakespearean actor was a joke. No longer. -
Review – London Road, National Theatre
Posted on April 19, 2011 | 1 CommentLondon Road is unlike any play or any musical I've ever seen. -
Review – Frankenstein, National Theatre
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 32 CommentsDanny Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch show why we have a National Theatre -
Good week / Bad week
Posted on February 7, 2011 | No CommentsCritics roll out "the F-Word" to describe Greenland at the National Theatre -
Good week / Bad week
Posted on January 30, 2011 | 1 CommentMore Spiderman (obviously) but also a touch of NT and RSC this week - raises the quality. -
Review – Greenland, National Theatre
Posted on January 26, 2011 | 13 CommentsAt best, a jumbled mess of preaching indignation. At worst, it fails to be a play at all. -
Good week / Bad week
Posted on November 21, 2010 | No CommentsWe are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. -
Review – Men Should Weep, National Theatre
Posted on October 25, 2010 | 3 CommentsNot 45 minutes long, and not about puppets. -
Good Week / Bad Week
Posted on October 10, 2010 | No CommentsWe turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel -
Review – Hamlet, National Theatre
Posted on October 3, 2010 | 10 CommentsRory Kinnear ends his superb, career-defining performance as Hamlet with "The rest is silence." Unfortunately, the audience has other ideas.
