Dancing around the periphery: there’s a compelling story lurking somewhere in Selina Fillinger’s debut play.
Reviews
21 April 2018
Reviews • Bristol • National • Reviews
Review: Polly at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
April 16 - April 17
By Lilith Wozniak
Horror amid the hilarity: Marie Hamilton and Stephanie Kempson’s musical John Gay adaptation hits all the right notes.
20 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Much Ado About Nothing at Rose Theatre Kingston
Until 6th May
By Hailey Bachrach
An uneasy mix: Simon Dormandy’s production combines squirmy sexual politics with knockabout comedy.
20 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Encounter at the Barbican
14 April - 5 May 2018
By Ava Davies
I’ve seen it five times… Ava Davies reviews the return of Simon McBurney’s The Encounter to the Barbican
20 April 2018
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Assassins at the Gate Theatre
18 April - 9 June 2018
By Chris McCormack
Chris McCormack reviews Stephen Sondheim’s musical about nine people who attempted to assassinate US presidents
18 April 2018
Reviews • Opera • Reviews
Review: The Marriage of Figaro at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
April 17 - April 21
By Chris McCormack
Losing steam: Irish National Opera’s first production runs out of ideas and invention.
18 April 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Frankie Vah at Soho Theatre
April 17 - May 5
By Hailey Bachrach
A poem about a poet: Luke Wright’s second verse play dives into the political turmoil of Thatcher’s Britain.
17 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Chicago at Phoenix Theatre
By Alice Saville
He had it coming: Alice Saville’s review of the sexy, slick courtroom story takes the form of a trial transcript.
17 April 2018
Reviews • Bristol
Review: Drag On at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
12 - 13 April 2018
By Lilith Wozniak
Fierce, real, awkward and fake: Lilith Wozniak reviews dance artist James Morgan’s show about myth, monsters and queer identity
17 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Coconut at Ovalhouse
11 - 28 April, then touring.
By Ava Davies
It wasn’t written for me: Ava Davies reviews Guleraana Mir’s play about a British Pakistani woman and her family
16 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Royal Opera House
By Rosemary Waugh
Despicable acts: Rosemary Waugh reviews Shostakovich’s opera, based on the same short story that inspired William Oldroyd and Alice Birch’s recent film.
15 April 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Instructions for Correct Assembly at the Royal Court
7 Apr - 19 May 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
If Amazon Prime delivered families: Rosemary Waugh reviews Thomas Eccleshare’s new play about humanoids and parenting.
15 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Showtime from the Frontline at Theatre Royal Stratford East
10 - 21 April 2018
By Amelia Forsbrook
An Englishman walks into a refugee camp… Amelia Forsbrook reviews Mark Thomas’s show based on his time setting up a comedy club in Palestine.
14 April 2018
Reviews
Review: Pericles at the Barbican
Until 21st April
By Sally Hales
Endless blue: Sally Hales on Cheek By Jowl’s wonderfully lucid staging of Shakespeare’s romance.
14 April 2018
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Here All Night at the Abbey Theatre
11 - 14 April 2018
By Chris McCormack
A meditation on the writer: Chris McCormack reviews an experimental piece of theatre inspired by Samuel Beckett