Review: Persephone
Dazzling: wise, clever twists about choice, male determination, and consequence.
Review: Persephone
Dazzling: wise, clever twists about choice, male determination, and consequence.
Review: Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Review: Inside
They’re live. And Orange Tree. Catch them.
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Our Little Surprise
An attractive, gentle meditation on family, with spectral undertones.
Review: Lockdown, Taboo and You 2
Another five fine lockdown plays on zoom
Review: Adventurous
A play gently subverting all expectations. Feeling Adventurous? You should.
Review: Lockdown, Taboo and You
Four fine lockdown plays on zoom
Review: Plays for Today
A truly absorbing series. And free to stream on Soundcloud.
Review: Hymn
Its potency lies in a fine peeling apart by Adrian Lester and Danny Sapini, and the language that bridges it.
Review: Shook
If you’ve an appetite for exceptional new writing, just see it.
Review: The Fabulous Fox Sister
Michael Conley’s stunning stand-alone glows in the dark
Review: The Last Five Years
The finest musical in stream-town. Don’t miss this gem.
Review: Public Domain
At 65 minutes it’s worth anyone’s time and emphatically money.
Review: The White Hart
Winner of an OnComm award from Off West End, another Upton triumph by stealth
Review: Nine Lessons and Carols
The Almeida’s another country. They do shows differently there. A bold communing of theatre stories with the fresh poignancy of what’s happened during 2020
Review: A Visit From Miss Prothero, Afterplay
If you see one production this Christmas, see this.
Review: Death of England: Delroy
Renders huge black experience into a narrative that bears it, because so well-constructed, so character-driven and so inhabited by Michael Balogun whose blaze of awakening is both benediction and clarion.
Review: 15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
Groundbreaking. The smallest producing theatre in the West End through lockdown has become the largest.
Review: The New Tomorrow
There’s a generosity here, a big hug. Theatre itself affirms the value of life to those who might yet shape it for the better.
Review: Crave
One of the most important productions since lockdown.
Review: A Coward Coupling
Family Album is possibly the most disastrous production this already unfortunate play has ever sustained. More, Coward would declare it’s a travesty; of genius. Hands Across the Sea is pitch-perfect in a slightly outré version of what Coward meant.
Review: Inside This Box
Showcases future names and above all is defiant with hope and agency
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: Waiting for Hamlet
A delight for the ears as two haunting characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet explore things Kingly before one makes his final, and first entrance.
Review: The Skin Game
Treat this as a wonderful premiere you’ve not had to stir for.
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: 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: Cyprus Avenue
Devastating drama about the DNA of bigotry played as surreal farce.
Review: Amsterdam
Did I say sucker-punch? It’s what the Orange Tree do every time.
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: I and You
Will leave you in a heap and wonder what else Lauren Gunderson has written that comes near this.
Review: Afterplay
Miraculously-attuned. A wafer-thin but absolutely genuine slice of Chekhov. Do see it.
Review: Shoe Lady
Katherine Parkinson inhabits that breaking through the office crust asphyxiating us
Review: Lipstick
Performances and play that should turn us upside down. Do make a detour for this brave. tremulously beautiful coming of love.
Review: The Mikvah Project
Still a brave and beautiful play.
Review: Kunene and the King
A strain of greatness.
Review: Nora
Stef Smith’s brilliant riff on Ibsen’s original is revelatory
Review: The Tin Drum
Nico Holonics’ blaze-through avatar is unlikely to be surpassed.
Review: An Inspector Calls
Still an outstanding production we might take for granted.
Review: Far Away
Our greatest playwright since Beckett and Pinter. An outstanding revival. Hesitating?
Review: The Dog Walker
I want to know what life, not just Paul Minx will do with his characters afterwards. So will you.
Review: The Good Dad (A Love Story)
Intricate, fiercely intelligent, this play packs far more force than some twice its length. Sarah Lawrie’s intensity is magnificent.
Review: Death of England
This work never loses its charge, its own rapturous arrival Spall gives the performance of his career so far.
Review: all of it
A miniature classic of snatched meaning. Catch it.
Review: Ghost Stories
Don’t waste your ticket. Stay to the end if you dare.
Review: Scenes with girls
Scenes with girls owns a buzz, a life, a difference about loving that gives it a sliver of unique.
Review: Krapp’s Last Tape/Eh Joe/The Old Tune
It’s Jermyn Street. If you can, see it.
Review: Teenage Dick
Ambition treads on teenage dreams and their devastation.
Review: Swive
A Hilliard rather than Holbein, it’s the velocity of Elizabeth’s survival that enthrals
Review: A Kind of People
Bhatti nails truth to the doors of injustice. It’s well we heeded it.
Review: Hunger
An exemplary, scrupulous production so starkly contemporary, it makes Hunger contemporary forever
Review: #We Are Arrested
Peter Hamilton Dyer carries this celebration of the conscience to be fully human
Review: Midnight Movie
What we have is absorbing
Review: Three Shorts – Fruit / When I Call Your Name / Embracing Nature
An assured showcase of shorts
Review: {BLANK}
Compelling and bleakly miraculous
Review: Shook
If you’ve an appetite for exceptional new writing, just see it.
Review: Hansard
A masterfully conceived vehicle to stalk politics now
Review: Shadows
Speaks with a fierce innocence
Review: 4.48 Psychosis
Do see this bold, beautiful attempt on Kane’s masterpiece
Review: The Antipodes
Baker pushes dangerously at just what theatre is.
Review: On Bear Ridge
Absorbing and horribly timely.
Review: A History of Water in the Middle East
Hugely absorbing it’s entertaining too.
Review: The Son
An explosively powerful play
Review: Blood Wedding
In several ways, this is about as good as it gets.
Review: The Ice Cream Boys
A deeply satisfying play
Review: Really Want to Hurt Me
A must-see.
Review: The River, Comment is Free
Bold brave, and mostly beautiful work: a consummate double-bill.
Review: ‘Master Harold’… and the boys
A mostly terrific revival.
Review: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
For a time you feel that beyond Churchill’s world, nothing else quite seems to exist.
Review: The Sad Shepherd
A necessary production you’re unlikely ever to see anywhere else.
Review: Amsterdam
Did I say sucker-punch? It’s what the Orange Tree do every time.
Review: Fleabag
Original, raw, brilliantly funny and devastating. This production is Fleabag neat. Its harrowing streak of genius burns like a healing scar torn.
Review: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
The most consistently satisfying work of Tim Crouch I’ve seen.
Review: The Mikvah Project
A brave and beautiful play
Review: Amplify
An exciting initiative showcasing new work by womxn
Review: Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography
A fine piece, skidding along silicon into our dark
Review: Pilgrims
Elinor Cook’s always worth a diversion for. This drama deserves friends and revivals.
Review: Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes
Rodrigues is a dramatist we need to see far more of.
Review: Tabby McTat
It really is purrfect for summer
Review: Short Play Festival
Worth 110 minutes of any July evening.
Review: seven methods of killing kylie jenner
‘What are you gonna do now…. clap?’ Yes, standing.
Review: The End of History…
A play you want to return to.
Review: Pictures of Dorian Gray
Be surprised.
Review: The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys and The Laments
In nearly every way an outstanding pair of productions.
Review: Death and the Fool
Satirical gets physical
Review: Further Education
A strong, committed production of a very fine comedy
Review: Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore
If you can, make this your last stop on the Fringe.
Review: The Wasp
This is more than a first-rate revival. It’s outstanding. See it.
Review: salt.
We’re offered ‘salt to heal, salt to remember… above all for your wounds.’ Take it.
Review: White Pearl
The finest new play from the Court this year, gleaming and deadly
Review: Those Magnificent Men
Find out what happens to these Magnificent Men; for they were, and are.
Review: Ross & Rachel
Don’t hesitate.
Review: Hello Who’s Calling
The Alford touch is worth a diversion for. Or a trunk call.
Review: Betrayal
A sovereign production: one of Pretty Villain’s finest.
Review: Sary
The imaginative force, language and unsettled serenity of this work demands a sustained run.
Review: Freak
A play everyone should see – and a first-rate revival.
Review: Caliban’s Codex
a superbly realised piece, vying with Carding’s own outstanding Quintessence.