The trauma of Ireland’s troubles is played out between two siblings in David Ireland’s emotionally intense drama.
Reviews
3 May 2017
Reviews • London Theatre • Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui at the Donmar Warehouse
April 21 - June 17
By Eleanor Turney
The parallels with the contemporary world are frighteningly obvious in the Donmar’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s political satire.
3 May 2017
Reviews • Dance
Review: Mayerling at the Royal Ballet
By Anna Winter
Lust, morphine and mental instability: Kenneth MacMillan’s infamously dark ballet is back, and so are the plummy Covent Garden crowds.
3 May 2017
Reviews
Review: Late Company at Finborough Theatre
By Francesca Street
A family come together to make sense of their bullied son’s death in Jordan Tannahill’s drama.
3 May 2017
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Six Degrees of Separation at Barrymore Theatre
Barrymore Theatre ⋄ 5th April to 16th July 2017
By Joseph Charnitski
A dissertation on storytelling: Six Degrees of Separation gets a fast paced revival starring Allison Janney.
2 May 2017
Reviews
Review: Oh Yes, Oh No at Camden People’s Theatre
By Alice Saville
Pain and pleasure: Louise Orwin’s solo performance is a powerful, uneasy look at the trouble with sex positivity.
2 May 2017
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre ⋄ 28th March to 22nd April 2018
By Jordan G. Teicher
“Mindlessness seems to have won the day” in a frenetic, supersized new Broadway musical of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.
1 May 2017
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: Home Truths at The Bunker
April 17 - May 13
By Gillian Greer
Demands to be heard: Gillian Greer, sustained only by artisanal fudge, sees nine plays in one day as part of Cardboard Citizens’ incomplete history of housing.
1 May 2017
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: While We’re Here at the Bush Theatre
May 1 - May 27
By Gillian Greer
The past is a strange country: Gillian Greer admires the gentle craftsmanship of Barney Norris’ new two-hander, the inaugural production in the Bush’s new studio space.
1 May 2017
Reviews
Review: The Cardinal at Southwark Playhouse
By Sally Hales
Certainly not a dazzling discovery: a revival of a rarely staged tragedy by James Shirley.
1 May 2017
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: The Little Foxes at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre ⋄ 29th March to 2nd July 2017
By Nicole Serratore
Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon give strong voices to the complex women in Lillian Hellman’s play The Little Foxes
30 April 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: City of Glass at Lyric Hammersmith
21 Apr ‐ 20 May 2017
By Eleanor Turney
Searching for meaning among the chaos: Eleanor Turney reviews Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of Paul Auster’s book.
30 April 2017
Reviews • Bristol
Review: The Tenant at Kings Weston House, Bristol
26 - 27 April 2017
By Rosemary Waugh
A portrait of an artist: Rosemary Waugh reviews Concert Theatre’s take on Anne Brontë’s novel.
29 April 2017
Reviews • Malvern
Review: Fracked at Malvern Theatres
24 - 29 April 2017
By Geoff Mills
Don’t mention the F-word: Geoff Mills reviews Alistair Beaton’s play about – whisper it – shale gas extraction.
29 April 2017
Reviews • Bristol
Review: Eclipse at The Station, Bristol
24 – 25 April 2017
By Rosemary Waugh
Friends until the end of time: Rosemary Waugh reviews Alice Nicholas’s new play about transgender teenagers.