Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Theatre O have devised a performance around spies, anarchists and agent provocateurs and given it an anarchic production with flashes of brilliance. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:00PMSunday, August 11, 2013
Nick Payne uses his marvellous ear for dialogue rather than fine plot construction. However, well done to him for exposing and putting centre stage the fake accident industry which has put h…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:40AMThom Southerland takes another musical with a dark theme and gives it new life in a London chamber production. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AMThursday, July 25, 2013
- I had trouble sticking to the critics' code of not giving a standing ovation to a performance, as only the infirm were left in their chairs at the curtain call!
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:11AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Punchdrunk's latest immersive theatre experience is suitably apt. Taking Buchner's unfinished piece Woyzeck they mould two stories of love, betrayal and murder around a Hollywood film studio…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:17AMMonday, July 22, 2013
The Finborough has a knack for brilliant scheduling and in this revival of Pam Gems' 1970s play, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi I found four women characters that really convinced and spoke to me.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:34AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are very impressive as the couple who cannot live without each other nor can they live without fighting .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:04AMrave reviews from the Ustinov Studio space in Bath have resulted in Richard Greenberg's 1990 play to transfer to the larger space at the St James' Theatre.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:03AMSunday, July 7, 2013
While the magic of Matilda is in its appeal to adults as well as children, the strongest appeal this time is to the younger generation. . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:34AMMonday, July 1, 2013
Lenny Henry, once a comedy actor, finds a strong emotional depth and gives a performance which will certainly have him nominated for Best Actor in the various award ceremonies. . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:24AMIt is a pretty evening in the park for this adaptation of Jane Austen, . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:22AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Conor McPherson's story continues to resonate with me days after I saw it, I think, because of its humanity. Some of this is down to the powerful performances but much is the skill of the st…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:02AMSunday, June 23, 2013
Martin McDonagh is on the schools' examination syllabus and the night I saw The Cripple of Inishmaan there was a deservedly, rapturous reception for its star. Let us hope that Daniel Radclif…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:49AMSunday, June 16, 2013
It is remarkable how untouched this group of English graduates from Oxford are by the riots happening on their doorstep in Brixton, London, in Doug Lucie's 1981 play
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:11PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Lucy Kirkwood's play satisfies at many levels. Political ideas are discussed, facts given about business and pollution, Chinese population policy and the crackdown by the Chinese police agai…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:07AMMonday, May 27, 2013
Ayab Akhtar's Pulitzer winner comes to London
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:04PMIn a stylish and animated production, Robert Sean Leonard graces the London stage at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park to play Atticus Finch, the hero of Harper Lee's famous novel . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:08PMMonday, April 29, 2013
Brian Cox stars in the Donmar's revival of Conor McPherson's hit play from 1997
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:21AMSunday, April 14, 2013
The film that turned into a Broadway hit, is now in London
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:41PMAlan Bennett's stories at the Duchess with Alex Jennings as the Yorkshire playwright
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:45AMMonday, April 8, 2013
It is endearing to see how something so zany and off the wall can be a big Broadway hit. I think the show will also charm London audiences for quite some time
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Written in the late 1940s by Rodney Ackland, but based on an ealier short story by Somerset Maugham. It was a hit in London's West End and is revived by Matthew Dunster at the Almeida in a w…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10AMPulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris's third play at the London Court is an epic, sprawling "fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism" . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:07AMSaturday, March 30, 2013
John Logan's new play stars the actors from the Bond film, Skyfall for which he wrote the screenplay. Judi Dench who plays Alice is James Bond's 'M', and Ben Whishaw is 'Q' . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:05AMSunday, March 24, 2013
Lindsay Posner's excellent production uses as the stage curtainaa a facsimile of the first page of the Bill of Rights which signposts the audience towards the search for justice as the main …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:19PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Kneehigh's Emma Rice brings herinimitable and idiosyncratic style to the BBC situation comedy of the 1960s
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:30AMMonday, March 18, 2013
I would name this as the number one must-see play on in London but research it before you go, so you know what to expect
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:09AMMonday, March 11, 2013
The Queen's own PR machine could not do more for her standing than this play. . . Read More
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