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Review: Love Love Love

Epic eavesdropping casts that ultimate spell: reading ourselves by flashes of lightning.

Published July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Inside This Box

Showcases future names and above all is defiant with hope and agency

Published July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Beauty and the Beast

Nothing so convincing has been done with this legend. It deserves many revivals.

Published July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Mikvah Project

Still a brave and beautiful play.

Published July 7, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Shoe Lady

Katherine Parkinson inhabits that breaking through the office crust asphyxiating us

Published July 7, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Les Blancs

A superb realization of Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished masterpiece - a classic of Ibsenite proportions

Published July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Might be the finest Globe Dream

Published June 28, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Spanish Tragedy

The OFS are taking flight with the best scratch nights the Elizabethans never had.

Published June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.

Published June 25, 2020July 2, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Merchant of Venice

A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it

Published June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Small Island

A reboot for the future, a passport for change.

Published June 21, 2020June 22, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: King John

A tedious brief tragedy? King John is fun… It’s been said.

Published June 19, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: From Henry VI Part 3 to Romeo and Juliet

Join and revel – they’re not anywhere near ended.

Published June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Understudy

Do catch it, and match the feelgood price with nudging theatres towards opening night.

Published June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

With Baum’s direction they and we discover new thresholds, new anatomies

Published June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor

One of the two most cogent, most fun Merry Wives of recent years.

Published June 14, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Madness of George III

This magnificent revival poses even more urgent questions. A twitch on the thread for all of us.

Published June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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

Published June 4, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Winter’s Tale

Enjoy its slow burn miracles.

Published May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: This House

Vibrant proof as to why it’s been called the play of the decade

Published May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire

A landmark production

Published May 28, 2020May 29, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: In Praise of Love

There’s no reason not to see this rare gem

Published May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Sound of Music

Phenomenal singing all round. A more than solid recommendation for that alone.

Published May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Richard II

Do see this.

Published May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Skin Game

Treat this as a wonderful premiere you’ve not had to stir for.

Published May 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published May 17, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Cats

Easily the finest production we’ll get

Published May 15, 2020May 16, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: By Jeeves!

A thoroughly enjoyable period-style musical.

Published May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Antony and Cleopatra

Supremely worth it to see a pair so famous weighing equal in their own balance, perhaps for the first time.

Published May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published May 4, 2020May 11, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: #AIWW The Arrest of Ai WeiWei

Brenton powerfully concertinas a continent’s politics and one artist’s refraction of it. Wong is outstanding

Published May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published May 2, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published May 2, 2020May 2, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Frankenstein

The acting scales cliff-edges of unreason. One remembers the scale of betrayal and loss of redemption

Published May 1, 2020May 5, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Romeo and Juliet

Completeness is just one reason to cherish this clean-driven clear-headed production

Published April 25, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Love Never Dies

One of the most fascinating dark-hued musicals Lloyd-Webber’s written

Published April 24, 2020April 25, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Twelfth Night

Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.

Published April 24, 2020April 26, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Tiger Country

Tells us more truthfully then any play has, the heroism that hardens, the sacrifice that endures.

Published April 21, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Winter’s Tale

Far more than a curate’s egg, this production reveals things we’ve never seen

Published April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: Drawing the Line

Terrific, a harrowing education.

Published April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner

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.

Published April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Bavard Bar

Ted Talks for ordinary people

Published April 16, 2020 by Joe Angella

Review: Cyprus Avenue

Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry played as surreal farce.

Published April 14, 2020May 4, 2020 by Simon Jenner