Theatre
“Tragic but thought provoking”, ‘An Enemy of the People’: Review
Ibsen has re-entered the drama scene with the current production of his classic play An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York theatre this spring. With big...
“Extremely vulnerable”: Review of The Sun King
It is difficult to imagine the stiflingly intimate space of the Burton Taylor transformed...
The Oxford Revue: A Room with Revue
'a simple and clever production which ranks as one of the most enjoyable shows I've seen all year'
Dynamic, Chaotic and Physical: Review of Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis
"Frantic Assembly takes on a new challenge, taking a decades old Kafka novel, The Metamorphosis, and putting it to the stage in their signature physical theatre style."
Mature and Intelligent: Julius Caesar at the TS Eliot Review
"From start to finish, it was a show filled with excellent performances from leading cast members."
“Elegant, witty, sophisticated, remarkable”: The ‘Philanthropist’
Katie Sayer and Emily Lawford meet the all-star cast of Simon Callow's production of 'The Philanthropist'
“Injections of humour amidst the Beckettian existential angst”
Emily Lawford is impressed by Leveaux’s revival of Tom Stoppard's meta-theatrical tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Love and humanity scattered amid the horror”
Emily Lawford enjoys a genuinely frightening production of Macbeth
A word from the stalls
Miriam Nemmaoui speaks to a tipsy audience member at Suzy Cripps’ 'The Optimists'
“Even while expecting an hour of postmodernist drama, I couldn’t have been more unprepared”
Katie Sayer recovers from the gripping and disturbing 'Marat/Sade' at the Keble O'Reilly
A disturbing worldview undercut by patchy acting
Olivia Cormack finds that it's not just the costumes in Contractions that need ironing out
“More gentle slap than sucker punch”
Katheryn Thompson finds Made in Dagenham lacking in political grit
“A bold and unapologetic production”
Surya Bowyer is frustrated by a powerful production of 'Suspiria' which comes so close to greatness
Anything but a simple fairy-tale
Ebere Nweze is impressed by this unnerving and sharp new adaptation of Wilde’s short story
“Young, classy and capable of mischief”
Jacob Greenhouse is impressed by the freshness of Consortium Novum’s production of The Marriage of Figaro
A word from the stalls
Miriam Nemmaoui chats to an audience member who is left feeling nostalgic by Anna Karenina
“An enormous array of talent on display”
Jonnie Barrow enjoys a bumpy ride through a musical twist on a classic
‘We’re going to do it better than Braveheart’
If your schooling was anything like Tom Fisher's, who is playing Ross in this new production of Macbeth, you studied the Scottish play in...
Preview: ‘Tender Napalm’
Emily Lawford is stifled and mesmerised by this production of Tender Napalm
