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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rsc Archive
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Good week / Bad week – by Ian Foster
Posted on January 21, 2011 | 1 CommentGood Week / Bad week - from Ian Foster of There Ought To Be Clowns -
Good week / Bad week
Posted on November 27, 2010 | No CommentsGood weeks for Sheridan Smith, Theatre503, Rebecca Hall and the RSC. Not great for decency. -
Review – Such Tweet Sorrow, Mudlark/RSC
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 7 CommentsI can’t have been the only person who viewed the launch of Such Tweet Sorrow, a version of Romeo & Juliet told through Twitter, with some scepticism. Such Tweet Sorrow The premise is that a cast of actors (led by Charlotte Wakefield of Spring Awakening... -
Review – Dunsinane, RSC/Hampstead
Posted on March 7, 2010 | 4 CommentsSay what you want about the RSC, but there’s no arguing that they’re not solid. Everybody faces the audiences, speaks clearly and convincingly, none of the actors are complete duffers, they all wear costumes that don’t look daft and the sword fights are well rehearsed.... -
Upcoming at the RSC
Posted on October 24, 2009 | No CommentsThere’s a bunch of new stuff coming up from the RSC, and a few old favourites. In no particular order: Twelfth Night comes to the Hampstead Theatre this winter courtesy of the unstoppable Gregory Doran. Solid casting include Richard Wilson as Malvolio, James Fleet (who... -
Theatre, Live
Posted on July 5, 2009 | No CommentsNT Live, the new access project from the National Theatre, has been a recognized success. Even the critical press seemed to like it, although quite what “multi-video cameras” are remains a mystery to me at least. Broadcasting live performances to screens is nothing new: the... -
Book now
Posted on February 28, 2009 | No CommentsMark “Shopping and Fucking” Ravenhill’s latest, Over There, opens at the Royal Court on 2 March. Short run so book soon at the RC website. Youngsters can get £6 tickets – ten per performance, two per booking.< Also at Sloane Square, David Hare’s latest Wall...
