Shipshape hilarity: Ed Nightingale reviews SpitLip’s WWII entirely entertaining comedy-musical.
Ed Nightingale
Articles by Ed Nightingale
27 February 2019
Reviews
Review: Tartuffe at National Theatre
By Ed Nightingale
Justice is served: Ed Nightingale writes on John Donnelly’s biting, densely political Molière adaptation.
1 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Pinter Two at the Harold Pinter Theatre
6 September - 23 February 2019
By Ed Nightingale
Marriage and infidelity: Ed Nightingale reviews Jamie Lloyd’s productions of The Lover and The Collection.
13 August 2018
Reviews • Reviews
Review: Aristocrats at the Donmar Warehouse
By Ed Nightingale
A ghostly reminder: Ed Nightingale reviews a revival of Brian Friel’s Aristocrats.
26 July 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Spamilton at Menier Chocolate Factory
12 July - 8 September 2018
By Ed Nightingale
‘Raise a glass to theatre’: Ed Nightingale reviews the spoof version of Hamilton.
4 July 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Boys at Incoming Festival 2018
2 July 2018
By Ed Nightingale
Electric energy: Ed Nightingale review The Pappy Show at the New Diorama.
4 July 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Search for a Black-browed Albatross at Incoming Festival 2018
2 July 2018
By Ed Nightingale
Minimalist, imaginative and wonderful: Ed Nightingale reviews The Backpack Ensemble at at the New Diorama.
6 May 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Mood Music at the Old Vic
Until 16th June
By Ed Nightingale
Creative control: Joe Penhall’s new play is a look at the hard, cynical, sexist world of the music industry.
1 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Love Me Now at the Tristan Bates Theatre
27 March - 14 April 2018
By Ed Nightingale
A widescreen battle of the sexes: Ed Nightingale reviews Michelle Barnette’s new play about modern relationships
12 February 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Divide at the Old Vic
1 - 10 February 2018
By Ed Nightingale
Full of teenage melodrama: Ed Nightingale reviews the shortened version of Alan Ayckbourn’s dystopian epic (and it’s still a disappointment).
12 January 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Heartbreak House at the Union Theatre
4 January - 3 February 2018
By Ed Nightingale
Europe is coming: Ed Nightingale reviews a revival of Bernard Shaw’s “state of the nation comedy of manners”.
11 December 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Peter Pan
New Wimbledon Theatre ⋄ 5th December 2015 - 10th January 2016
By Ed Nightingale
An ugly blast from the past.
25 November 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Licensed to Ill
Camden People's Theatre ⋄ 23rd November - 12th December 2015
By Ed Nightingale
Flow-motion.
29 September 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
The Sweethearts
Finborough Theatre ⋄ 22nd September - 17th October 2015
By Ed Nightingale
Entertaining the troops.
15 September 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
The Sting
Wilton's Music Hall ⋄ 9th September - 14th October 2015
By Ed Nightingale
The con is on.