Review: The Odyssey
A stupendous undertaking
Review: The Odyssey
A stupendous undertaking
Review: Craig
Imagination rules when you need to find a creative solution – with an orange!
Review: Rockets and Blue Lights
A paean to endurance, love, and wrenched freedoms.
Review: Love Love Love
Epic eavesdropping casts that ultimate spell: reading ourselves by flashes of lightning.
Review: Inside This Box
Showcases future names and above all is defiant with hope and agency
Review: The Deep Blue Sea
Helen McCrory plumbs the erotic despair of Hester Collyer’s abandoned woman in this absorbing revival of Rattigan’s masterpiece.
Review: Beauty and the Beast
Nothing so convincing has been done with this legend. It deserves many revivals.
Review: The Mikvah Project
Still a brave and beautiful play.
Review: Shoe Lady
Katherine Parkinson inhabits that breaking through the office crust asphyxiating us
Review: Les Blancs
A superb realization of Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished masterpiece - a classic of Ibsenite proportions
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Might be the finest Globe Dream
Review: The Spanish Tragedy
The OFS are taking flight with the best scratch nights the Elizabethans never had.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Review: The Merchant of Venice
A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it
Review: Small Island
A reboot for the future, a passport for change.
Review: King John
A tedious brief tragedy? King John is fun… It’s been said.
Review: From Henry VI Part 3 to Romeo and Juliet
Join and revel – they’re not anywhere near ended.
Review: The Understudy
Do catch it, and match the feelgood price with nudging theatres towards opening night.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
With Baum’s direction they and we discover new thresholds, new anatomies
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
One of the two most cogent, most fun Merry Wives of recent years.
Review: The Madness of George III
This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.
Review: Coriolanus
A Coriolanus memorable for politics sinewed with personal forces: an active interrogation of democracy. And in Josie Rourke’s production Tom Hiddleston’s someone riven by intimations of his true self
Review: The Winter’s Tale
Enjoy its slow burn miracles.
Review: This House
Vibrant proof as to why it’s been called the play of the decade
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire
A landmark production
Review: In Praise of Love
There’s no reason not to see this rare gem
Review: The Sound of Music
Phenomenal singing all round. A more than solid recommendation for that alone.
Review: Richard II
Do see this.
Review: The Skin Game
Treat this as a wonderful premiere you’ve not had to stir for.
Review: The Two Noble Kinsmen
We’re looking at a bright Book of Hours. Barrie Rutter’s done it profound service, adding a warmth and agency that opens up this pageant. This is hopefully just the first of many such he’ll bring to the Globe.
Review: Cats
Easily the finest production we’ll get
Review: Barber Shop Chronicles
Barber Shop Chronicles is a breath-taking revelation for those of us who had small inkling of a world in miniature.
Review: By Jeeves!
A thoroughly enjoyable period-style musical.
Review: Antony and Cleopatra
Supremely worth it to see a pair so famous weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.
Review: Frankenstein (alternate version)
The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption. Benedict Cumberbatch here is Frankenstein, Jonny Lee Miller the Creature. The alternate version aired first is still available.
Review: #AIWW The Arrest of Ai WeiWei
Brenton powerfully concertinas a continent’s politics and one artist’s refraction of it. Wong is outstanding
Review: A Separate Peace
Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.
Review: Andrew Lloyd-Webber 50th Birthday Live from the Royal Albert Hall, 1998
The great discovery was the multi-roling Marcus Lovett, sexy and lethal, able to attack several roles and convince you he was born for them, even into them.
Review: Frankenstein
The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption
Review: Romeo and Juliet
Completeness is just one reason to cherish this clean-driven clear-headed production
Review: Love Never Dies
One of the most fascinating dark-hued musicals Lloyd-Webber’s written
Review: Twelfth Night
Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.
Review: Tiger Country
Tells us more truthfully then any play has, the heroism that hardens, the sacrifice that endures.
Review: The Winter’s Tale
Far more than a curate’s egg, this production reveals things we’ve never seen
Review: Drawing the Line
Terrific, a harrowing education.
Review: Treasure Island
First-rate theatre. In Joshua James’ Ben Gunn and above all Pasy Ferran’s Jim, we see stars rising quicker than Arthur Darvill’s superb Silver can point them out.
Review: The Bavard Bar
Ted Talks for ordinary people
Review: Cyprus Avenue
Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry played as surreal farce.
Review: Jesus Christ, Superstar
A sovereign production, unlikely to be equalled for the foreseeable
Review: Wonderland
Outstanding. Surely the definitive study of the dignity of physical labour, and breaking of its amity.
Review: Amsterdam
Did I say sucker-punch? It’s what the Orange Tree do every time.
Review: Flowers for Mrs Harris
A must-see.
Review: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
A salutary reminder of how a great musical talent and collaboration started
Review: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
A unique take on the isolation foisted on all of us
Review: Wild
Theatrically the most thrilling end to any Bartlett play
Review: One Man, Two Guvnors
Outstanding. An immediate comic classic.
Review: I and You
Will leave you in a heap and wonder what else Lauren Gunderson has written that comes near this.
Review: Wifi Wars
A genius technological marvel of a show
Review: Long Distance Affair
Interesting experiment in Skperformance