Playing with fire: Osborne’s classic play takes on new meaning in light of #MeToo.
Gate Theatre
18 January 2018
Reviews
Review: Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992 at the Gate Theatre
January 11 - February 10
By Brendan Macdonald
Then and now: Ann Deavere Smith’s verbatim piece uses the past to interrogate the present.
8 December 2017
Reviews • Dublin • National • Reviews
Review: The Red Shoes at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
December 6 - January 27
By Chris McCormack
Dancing feet: Nancy Harris’ Hans Christian Andersen adaptation brims with “barely suppressed sorrow and heartbreak”.
19 September 2017
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: The Unknown Island at the Gate Theatre
September 11 - October 7
By Corrie Tan
“It’s an almost slavish adherence, but it pays off eventually”: Corrie Tan reviews Ellen McDougall’s adaptation of Jose Saramago’s 1997 short story.
7 April 2017
Reviews • Dublin • Reviews
Review: Private Lives at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
Gate Theatre Dublin ⋄ March 31 - June 24 2017
By Chris McCormack
Cowardly nostalgia: Chris McCormack lingers in the halcyon bliss of Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy.
16 November 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: I Call My Brothers at the Gate Theatre
Gate Theatre ⋄ 10th November - 3rd December 2016
By Fergus Morgan
It should be gripping. But it’s not: Fergus Morgan reviews I Call My Brothers at the Gate Theatre.
12 September 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe • Reviews
Review: Diary of a Madman at Gate Theatre
Gate Theatre ⋄ 28th July - 24th September 2016
By Brendan Macdonald
Nationalistic narratives: Brendan Macdonald reviews Al Smith’s modern version of Gogol.
6 May 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Iphigenia Quartet at Gate Theatre
Gate Theatre ⋄ 32rd April - 21st May 2016
By Rafaella Marcus
“An evening of echoes and ripples” Rafaella Marcus reviews Gate Theatre’s exploration of the House of Atreus.
10 February 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) at Gate Theatre
Gate Theatre ⋄ 4th - 27th February 2016
By Dave Fargnoli
“Part Mumsnet cry-for-help, part frontline dispatch.” Dave Fargnoli reviews Nina Segal’s new play.
23 August 2015
Features • Essays
A Question of Faith
By Catherine Love
Catherine Love on Jo Clifford’s Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Lucas Hnath’s The Christians and the politics of belief.
12 June 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Image of an Unknown Young Woman
Gate Theatre ⋄ 4th - 27th June 2015
By Tim Bano
In an image-led world.
1 May 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Eclipsed
Gate Theatre ⋄ 23rd April - 16th May 2015
By Tom Wicker
The lasting wounds of war.
30 December 2014
Features
Destruction and Renewal
By Catherine Love
Stories about stories and “flailing hopefulness”: Catherine Love’s theatrical highlights of 2014.
25 November 2014
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Chimera
Gate Theatre ⋄ 20th November - 20th December 2014
By Lauren Mooney
What makes a person a person?
24 November 2014
Reviews • Brighton
Grounded
Brighton Dome ⋄ 21st November 2014
By Tracey Sinclair
Flying high.