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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trafalgar studios Archive
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Review – Holding The Man, Trafalgar Studios
Posted on May 20, 2010 | 1 CommentIt wasn't exactly a sell out performance at Trafalgar Studios this Thursday. -
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 – The Mountaintop, Trafalgar Studios
Posted on August 8, 2009 | No CommentsThe Mountaintop by Katori Hall invites us into the motel room in which Martin Luther King (David Harewood) spends his last night before his assassination and through an encounter with a maid (Lorraine Burroughs) to whom there is more than meets the eye. The portrait... -
A Night Less Ordinary
Posted on August 7, 2009 | No CommentsBefore the Arts Council decided that it was all about the middle aged, they used to think that theatre was all about the young people. A relic of this golden age is A Night Less Ordinary, a remarkable scheme whereby those under 26 years old...
