Theatre Reviews
Hamlet, Windsor Theatre Royal review - the age is out of jointThursday, 22 July 2021
So it wasn’t Cinderella but Hamlet who was first out of the post-lockdown starting blocks – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much trumpeted musical premiere being foiled by a ping at the weekend. Read more... |
ANNA X, Harold Pinter Theatre review - lacking in substanceTuesday, 20 July 2021
There just isn’t enough there, with ANNA X. Daniel Raggett’s production is the third and final of the RE:EMERGE season at the Harold Pinter Theatre, with Emma Corrin of Lady Di fame in the lead. The graphic design – the brightly-striped faces of Corrin and her co-star, Nabhaan Rizwan, on a dark background – is impeccable. Joseph Charlton’s writing, not so much. Read more... |
Mr and Mrs Nobody, Jermyn Street Theatre review – as comfortable as afternoon tea with jam puffsTuesday, 20 July 2021
If you’re looking for a distraction from the apocalyptic headlines that seem to be the norm right now, then it may appeal to descend into the pleasantly air-conditioned surroundings of Jermyn Street Theatre and take a trip to 1888. Read more... |
South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre review - gloriously revived and also refreshedSaturday, 17 July 2021
We’ve come to learn what socially distanced means but, 72 years ago, the distance that concerned Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers was that between racial groups in the United States. Read more... |
Last Easter, Orange Tree Theatre review - over-performative and strangely off-puttingSaturday, 17 July 2021
Last Easter has become a lot more relatable since it was forced to postpone this run at the Orange Tree Theatre, originally scheduled for 2020. Read more... |
King Lear, The Grange Festival review - friendship in adversityFriday, 16 July 2021
Much has been made of the raison d’etre for this King Lear as the slowly gestated, Covid-delayed brainchild of the director Keith Warner, assembling a company of acting singers who have made their names on the opera stage. Read more... |
The Dumb Waiter, Old Vic: In Camera review - more in sorrow than in angerSaturday, 10 July 2021
Pinter wrote The Dumb Waiter in 1957 (although it wasn't seen in London until 1960) the year before The Birthday Party received its notorious première at the Lyric Hammersmith. When a friend described them both as political plays, about power and victimisation, the playwright readily agreed. Read more... |
The Invisible Hand, Kiln Theatre review - balanced on a knife edgeThursday, 08 July 2021
A lot’s changed since Kiln Theatre boss Indhu Rubasingham directed The Invisible Hand’s first UK outing in 2016, not least the theatre’s name (it was known as the Tricycle back then). Read more... |
Pippin, Charing Cross Theatre review - happy-clappy vibeWednesday, 07 July 2021
If Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1966 was anyone under the age of 25, why couldn’t a teenage student write a musical in 1967? There are plenty of answers to that question of course, none of which stopped the composer Stephen Schwartz, who conjured Pippin while still at Carnegie Mellon University. Read more... |
Wonderful Town, Quick Fantastic, Opera Holland Park review - everybody's swinging itMonday, 05 July 2021
It’s a wonderful thing to hear a nine-piece Broadway-style band at full pelt, and to see real show dancing – the first time for me, in both cases, since early 2020. Read more... |
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