A bitter draft: Alice Saville reluctantly reviews David Mamet’s Weinstein play.
West End & Central
12 June 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Bronx Gothic at Young Vic
1-29th June 2019
By J N Benjamin
A mighty body quake: J N Benjamin writes on Okwui Okpokwasili’s pulsating experimental dance piece.
4 June 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Rutherford and Son at National Theatre
By Alice Saville
A room without a view: Alice Saville writes on the claustrophobic domesticity of Githa Sowerby’s play.
26 May 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Our Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
16th May - 8th June 2019
By Rosemary Waugh
“One happy, happy community”: Rosemary Waugh writes on the stiflling smalltown mundanities of Thornton Wilder’s play.
23 May 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Anna at National Theatre
11th May - 15th June 2019
By Maddy Costa
“You can’t build a country on wants”: Maddy Costa writes on Ella Hickson’s play, feminism and capitalism.
17 May 2019
Reviews • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: White Pearl at Royal Court Theatre
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Pastel nightmares: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on a riotous exploration of skin-lightening and prejudice.
13 May 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Henry IV parts 1 & 2 and Henry V, at Shakespeare’s Globe
23rd April - 11th October 2019
By Brendan Macdonald
“Hot like gunpowder”: Brendan Macdonald writes on the Michelle-Terry-starring Henry triple bill that opens Shakespeare’s Globe’s summer season.
10 May 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Death of a Salesman at Young Vic Theatre
1st May – 13th July
By Rosemary Waugh
“There’s a definite gloss to this staging” – Rosemary Waugh writes on Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s West End-ready take on Arthur Miller’s story.
18 April 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Three Sisters at Almeida Theatre
6 April - 1 June
By Rosemary Waugh
‘The kind of beauty that leaves you feeling a little hopeless’: Rosemary Waugh reviews Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Three Sisters.
5 April 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Top Girls at the National Theatre
By Hannah Greenstreet
“If Caryl Churchill can’t have a large cast, who can?”: Hannah Greenstreet’s tripartite response to Top Girls explores its place in the theatre canon.
22 February 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Young Vic
By Verity Healey
‘Who has the freedom to force choices onto whom and why?’: Kate Hewitt’s new take on Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play questions the possibility of free will within the penal system, writes Verity Healey.
18 February 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Come From Away at Phoenix Theatre
By Hailey Bachrach
Hope and pain: Hailey Bachrach writes on a hit musical following the fates of the ‘plane people’ who landed in Newfoundland, post 9/11.
6 February 2019
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Review: Superhoe at Royal Court
By Frey Kwa Hawking
“A long, slow slide into horror after horror” – Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Nicôle Lecky’s narrative of a young woman suffocated by anxieties.
24 January 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
When we have sufficiently tortured each other, at the National Theatre
By Hannah Greenstreet
Penetrating analysis: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Martin Crimp and Katie Mitchell’s phallocentric new exploration of gender roles.
14 January 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Coming Clean at Trafalgar Studios
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Fun on the side: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Kevin Elyot’s debut play about nonmonogamy, as it transfers to Trafalgar Studios.