Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Harold Pinter theatre, London: Befitting its bijou new home, this is a neater, less sprawling Spamalot than the one that opened in Broadway in 2005. It is shorter, has a tighter script (with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Novello, London: Without the dramatic skills and instincts of long-time collaborator Andy Nyman, the question about Derren Brown's show isn't whether he will guess the right number…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Young Vic: Carrie Cracknell puts Ibsen's far-sighted 1879 exploration of the fault lines in a bourgeois marriage on as literal a stage recreation of a human dolls house as this realist …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Arts, London: Former Labour MP Chris Mullin (Hodgkinson) clearly sees himself as a sincere, idealistic and modest politician, doing his best in a world of realpolitik.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Bush, London: Louise Delamere's pregnant Amanda, all expensive perfumes and lavish chestnut hair, doesn't want her her rich banker husband (Evans) to swear - she wants to protect t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThursday, May 31, 2012
35 Marylebone High St: Henry V is probably the one Shakespeare history which doesn't need to remind us that it will contain a bit of soldiering before curtain up. But here we are, usher…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Bush Theatre, London: There seems an obvious logic about turning the Genesis story of Abraham's putative sacrifice (on God's orders) of his son Isaac into a parable about the moder…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Wyndhams, London: Lindsay Posner's production demonstrates that this powerful examination of the snap and crackle of suburban angst and frustration has enough fire in its belly to make …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Harold Pinter, London: The Browning Version, Terence Rattigan's paean to thwarted ambition and stultified passion, is beautifully presented in this new double bill. Rattigan's fami…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Wyndham's, London: There is something a little self-satisfied about any stage production riding on the coat-tails of Oscar glory. And while David Seidler's clever play came before the C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Almeida, London: As a study in a woman's pain, this revival of De Filippo's 1945 play is at times deeply affecting. Samantha Spiro plays the titular lead, a woman who has raised he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMThursday, March 22, 2012
Young Vic, London: Natalie Dormer does a good line in doomed, haughty young women. She played Anne Boleyn in the lavish TV show The Tudors and here raises her game to an even more acute pitc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMFriday, March 9, 2012
Arts Theatre, London: Our Friends in the North, Billy Elliott, Brassed Off - the north east of England has been fertile territory for state of the nation dramas about working class anger and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Trafalgar Studios, London: Stefan Golaszewski is perhaps best known for his BBC3 relationship sitcom Him & Her, a modern hymn to youthful monogamy. So the image of Naomi Sheldon's R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:42AMThursday, September 22, 2011
Theatres will benefit from government plans to introduce local television stations because it will make TV advertising affordable to venues and producers for the first time, according to for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AM 
