Dancing shadows: Colin Dunne’s tribute to Tommie Potts’ ‘undanceable’ 1972 album is a meditation on absence and time.
Reviews
15 October 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Sweet Science of Bruising at Southwark Playhouse
Until 27th October
By Alice Saville
Punching up: Joy Wilkinson’s play is an exhilarating trip into an imagined world of Victorian women’s boxing.
15 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Inheritance at Noël Coward Theatre
By Frey Kwa Hawking
As Matthew Lopez’s gay epic transfers from the Young Vic to the West End, Frey Kwa Kawking writes on its sprawling, compassionate glory.
15 October 2018
Reviews • Birmingham • National
Review: All You Need Is LSD at Birmingham REP
4-13 October
By Eve Allin
A bad trip: Eve Allin writes on Leo Butler’s surreal new play for Told by An Idiot.
15 October 2018
Reviews
Review: Burlesque Noir at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
By Freddie Machin
Pleasure seekers: Freddie Machin writes on a warm, welcoming, and thoroughly enjoyable night of Blackpool burlesque.
13 October 2018
Reviews • Dublin
Review: DruidShakespeare – Richard III at Abbey Theatre
Until 27th October
By Chris McCormack
Crafty schemes: Druid’s production brings out all the gallows humour of Shakespeare’s play.
13 October 2018
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Rathmines Road at Abbey Theatre
By Chris McCormack
Agonising testimonies: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is a densely plotted exploration of assault and speaking out.
12 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: I’m Not Running at the National Theatre
Until 31st January 2019
By Simon Gwynn
Uncanny valley: David Hare’s satire of Labour politics might be set in the present day, but it belongs in another era.
11 October 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: othellomacbeth at Lyric Hammersmith
5th October - 3rd November
By Amy Borsuk
‘a jumble – not necessarily in a constructive, interesting or interrogative way’: Amy Borsuk reviews Jude Christian’s mashup of Shakespearean tragedies
11 October 2018
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: The Mountaintop at Northern Stage
9-13 October
By Tracey Sinclair
A mountain of a man? Tracey Sinclair writes on the nuanced performances in the touring production of Katori Hall’s play.
11 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Twelfth Night at the Young Vic
By Lauren Mooney
Shakespeare as party: Lauren Mooney writes on a fantastically warm, welcoming opener to Kwame Kwei-Armah’s reign at the Young Vic.
10 October 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch at Battersea Arts Centre
3rd - 20th October
By Brendan Macdonald
‘A stunning show that looks inward to thrust outwards’: Brendan MacDonald reviews Bryony Kimmings’ new solo performance
10 October 2018
Reviews
Review: The Lovely Bones at Northern Stage
9-20 October
By Tracey Sinclair
Loss of innocence: Tracey Sinclair reviews the first stage adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel.
10 October 2018
Reviews
Review: Kindertransport at Nottingham Playhouse
5-20 October
By Peter Kirwan
‘Demons in the attic’: Peter Kirwan writes on Kindertransport’s portrayal of the immigrant experience
8 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Malady of Death (La Maladie de la Mort) at the Barbican
3 - 6 October 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
The waves are rolling in or moving out: Rosemary Waugh reviews Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s latest collaboration.