Saturday, June 29, 2019
Tuyen Do's playwriting debut marks first-ever British Vietnamese play seen in the UK
There’s a moment in Summer Rolls, at the Nguyen family dinner table, when a veil is briefly pulled bac…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:42AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Greed is good or at least entertaining in feisty Off West End revival
Deft and funny and nicely cast, what's not to like about Other People's Money, the era-defining Jerry Sterner play in r…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMSunday, March 24, 2019
Solo play looks back blandly at the celebrated screen dad in "Mary Poppins"
I am deeply jealous of Miles Jupp's dressing gown in The Life I Lead, the solo play at the Park Theatre. It's a si…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:53PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Mental distress takes centre-stage in metaphor-heavy play
We're Staying Right Here, Henry Devas's debut play premiering on the smaller of the Park Theatre's two stages, carries a trigger wa…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:00AMThursday, February 21, 2019
Canny update of a 17th-century classic locates real laughs in today's censorious landscape
Breathe in the love and breathe out the bullshit. After the Arcola Theatre's founder and artistic d…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:30AMThursday, February 7, 2019
National Theatre transfer hits the West End sweet spotThe Fifties? They were terrible: bone-cold houses where people huddled round the fireplace for heat, empty Sundays that lasted a month, …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:42AMWednesday, February 6, 2019
American play from mid-'90s resonates afresh todayIn the history of early photography in the Middle East, it was the Armenian Christian traders and their descendents who became the pion…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
Three interconnected stories struggle to add up A road tunnel through the Alps, stretching underneath Mont Blanc: Tel (Shaun Mason) is ploughing home to London in a borrowed Merc, strung out…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:32AMMonday, January 14, 2019
Ché Walker play provides a lively platform for the formidable Sheila Atim Confessions first: I fell asleep mid-way through Time Is Love/Tiempo es Amor, from too much time on trains and plan…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AMFriday, December 14, 2018
Award-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel retains its ingenuity and pathos One emotional high point in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the much-lauded Simon Ste…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Last year's festive-season hit, re-cast, continues to enchant The Old Vic's revival of its successful Christmas Carol first seen this time last year had me at the mince pies: they were …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:24AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
International sensation stirs the heart anew in its return homeWar Horse at the National Theatre on Sunday’s Armistice Day centenary: there were medalled veterans and at least one priest i…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54AM 
