Theatre
Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice, The Other Palace review - a familiar name in freshly exciting formWednesday, 25 April 2018
A one-time Martha and Maggie the Cat in the theatre, and a screen siren of the sort they don't make any more, might not be the first person you expect to see swaggering on to a London stage in a dark pantsuit ready to offer up two hours of song and... Read more... |
Rasheeda Speaking, Trafalgar Studios review - unsettling comedy, thorny racismSaturday, 21 April 2018
Conflict and comedy can be unpredictable bedfellows, and Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s 2014 play occasionally risks overstretching itself in its attempts to reconcile the two – although its immediate context, the world of office politics,... Read more... |
Bat Out of Hell, Dominion Theatre review - the Meat Loaf musical returns, batty as everFriday, 20 April 2018
Back by feverishly popular demand, Jim Steinman’s mega-musical is no longer in danger of alarming unsuspecting opera-goers. A year on from its Coliseum debut, this indisputably bonkers show moves to the West End venue it was surely always destined... Read more... |
Tina, Aldwych Theatre review - new Tina Turner bio-musical is simply OKWednesday, 18 April 2018
It is, perhaps, a tale that suffers from overfamiliarity. Tina Turner’s rags-to-riches story – from humble beginnings as little Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her discovery, reinvention and sickening abuse by husband and manager Ike... Read more... |
Instructions for Correct Assembly, Royal Court review - Jane Horrocks in Middle England 'Westworld'Monday, 16 April 2018
There’s a whole universe which British theatre has yet to explore properly – it’s called the sci-fi imagination. Although this place is familiar from countless films and television series, it is more or less a stranger to our stages. With notable... Read more... |
The Moderate Soprano, Duke of York's Theatre review - love and opera with a flinty edgeSaturday, 14 April 2018
"What could be more serious than married life?" asked Richard Strauss, whose operas became a surprising pillar of Glyndebourne's repertoire some time after the early days dramatised in David Hare's play. "Honour" might have been the answer of... Read more... |
Chicago, Phoenix Theatre review - baggy revival picks up later paceFriday, 13 April 2018
Chicago has been on, in one form or another, for a very long time. The original Broadway production in the Seventies ran for 936 performances; the 1997 London revival was the longest-running American musical in West End history; and it feels like... Read more... |
Quiz, Noël Coward Theatre, review - entertaining confectionWednesday, 11 April 2018
You could be forgiven for not remembering the “coughing major” brouhaha in 2001, coming as it did the day before 9/11, when we had rather more pressing matters to attend to than a contestant being accused of cheating on television quiz show. But... Read more... |
10 Questions for Performer Seth KriebelThursday, 05 April 2018
Seth Kriebel, 45, is a performer, much of whose work involves audience participation. He is bringing the show A House Repeated to the Brighton Festival 2018 between 6th and 11th May. Of American origin, born and raised near Philadelphia, Kriebel... Read more... |
The Country Wife, Southwark Playhouse review – knowing Restoration updateThursday, 05 April 2018
Even in its successful early days Wycherley’s 1675 comedy was notorious, but it was considered too lewd to be staged at all between the mid-Eighteenth Century and 1924. Although the play has found an affectionate place in the canon in more recent... Read more... |
Pressure, Park Theatre review - David Haig terrific in his own dramaWednesday, 04 April 2018
There are few things more British than talking about the weather. What makes this play about a meteorologist interesting, however, is its historical setting: the eve of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Although stories from the... Read more... |
White Guy on the Bus, Finborough Theatre review - a moral tale of Pennsylvania's divisionsSaturday, 31 March 2018
Ros and Ray are old hippies made good. She’s a hard-bitten, hard-working teacher in an inner-city Pennsylvania school where her pupils rob 7-Elevens on Fridays and the staff have a betting pool on how many times she gets called "white bitch". He’s a... Read more... |
