Featured Stories
-
Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
27 November 2011 3:35 PM | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen.
Read More -
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.
Read More -
Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
22 October 2011 9:50 AM | 4 CommentsA guest blog (guest blog!)
Read More -
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. ★★
Read More -
Review – The Wheel, Traverse Theatre
14 August 2011 10:05 PM | No CommentsInteresting and technically excellent, but lacking in characters to care about. ★★★
Read More
-
shakespeare Archive
-
Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen. -
Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
Posted on October 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsA guest blog (guest blog!) -
Review – Richard III, Old Vic
Posted on June 20, 2011 | No CommentsThis show was always going to be a hit. Luckily, it deserves to be. -
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 -
January: rain, dark nights, and the occasional joke
Posted on January 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe farm animals decide to finally settle the debate as to who amongst them is the best public speaker -
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.... -
Review – Othello, Trafalgar Studios
Posted on November 14, 2009 | 3 CommentsI can’t have been the only person who viewed the Northern Broadsides/West Yorkshire Playhouse’s casting of Lenny Henry as Othello as leaden with potential for a truly disastrous theatre spectacle, a respected regional company sacrificing its hard won integrity in favour of celebrity- and novelty-driven... -
Review – Hamlet, Donmar/Wyndhams
Posted on August 17, 2009 | 2 CommentsHamlet The wonderful thing about each production of Hamlet is that it feels completely different to its predecessors. Just by virtue of the play’s staggering length in the folio (not to mention the quarto version to boot), it’s impossible to perform intact and, as such,... -
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... -
Review – Twelfth Night, Wyndhams/Donmar
Posted on February 21, 2009 | 1 CommentFor what was unveiled as a celebrity-studded uberseason, the choices for the plays at the Donmar’s West End season at the Wyndhams seem somewhat workaday. The star of the season is obviously Hamlet with Jude Law in the summer (although even this seems less than...
