70 stories by "Daniel Harrison"
You'd have to be some Victor Meldrew-Ebenezer Scrooge hybrid (or perhaps The Guardian's prominent theatre critic) not to absolutely adore Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith. Sean Holmes's…
The collective echoes of King Charles III and A View from the Bridge still reverberate strongly around the walls of Wyndham's Theatre: American Buffalo certainly has a big stage to fil…
I love the Unicorn Theatre. It is a space that has finely mastered a skill. A skill that theatre for young people does not mean theatre dumbed down. It is a venue that assumes a prior knowle…
I'm a little puzzled as to just why Harvey has been revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. It's a sweet and gentle story, but it is also notable in its total lack of relevance or significan…
As was possibly inevitably the case, a hell of a lot of questions were thrown at the audience at Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics, questions that we may have heard…
“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” The tumultuous relationship between screen icons Bette Davis and Joan Cra…
What's Cheryl Cole's new name? Cheryl Verwotsit? Fillisomething? You can always judge a panto on its pop culture references. And there's plenty shoehorned into Sleeping Booty! at the Leicest…
I’ve got to be honest – I’ve never heard of Emlyn Williams. I’m not quite sure whether that’s embarrassing or not. He’s described in the programme as R…
Just a hop, skip and a jump away from his bust on Adelaide Street, The Trials of Oscar Wilde at Trafalgar Studios is just that: an avid and vivid telling of one of London's most famous and n…
Apart from last fortnight's excellent outing to King Charles III, I rarely venture into the West End. I kind of know what I'm going to get. And if I was trying to convert a theatre newbie to…
What a time to be the Almeida Theatre. Under Rupert Goold, the north London powerhouse is impressively and consistently solid, either at its base in Islington or in its West End transfer. Mo…
How much do people in England know about Scotland and the impending independence referendum? And how much do they actually care? Some questions for the marketing team at Theatre Royal Stratf…
Credit where credit's due: we are told director Roz Hopkinson had only three days of rehearsal with Anne Zander and Bonnie Adair. And so sets the scene. We become a friendly and forgiving pr…
To enter Shoreditch Town Hall for Wedding is to enter the set of a Wes Anderson film. Its kitsch aesthetic (grand surroundings up-lit in soft pink) and kooky charm work to let in only a glim…
Fashion Victim: The Musical is puerile, vacuous and tacky. The plot is wafer thin and there is no discernible meaning or message to speak of. The characters are two-dimensional and the scrip…
One of the fears around jazz music is that it will just go on and on. And on and on. And on. One of Café Society Swing's few saving graces is that it manages to avoid this. Despite its nume…
Nostalgia is firmly 'in' at Theatre Royal Stratford East. We had its important Oh, What A Lovely War! lambasted by the Education Secretary in February (remember?), the concept of 'Fun Pal…
It would be possible for an audience to leave content enough with having experienced the fizzling layer of warmth and humour that pins together Good People. Yet dig a little deeper, and you …
I think what I love most about the Unicorn Theatre is that it is a venue that never patronises or mollycoddles its audience. It makes shows for children and young people, yes, but they alway…
There was a tangible prickle of excitement and expectation that filtered through the audience before Dame Angela Lansbury took to the stage "Â an audible murmur of the imminent and tantali…
Equality within football is in a sorry state. The ‘Kick Racism Out of Football’Â campaign deserves plaudits for its work in dragging the game out of its shameful escapades in t…
I was meant to see Brand New Ancients when it was at the Young Vic in January. In the end I went to see a panto instead. The next day my friends were glowing in their praise of Kate Tempest'…
I left the Bush Theatre tonight quite convinced that I hadn't enjoyed what I'd seen. It wasn't just We Are Proud To Present A Presentation About The Herero Of Namibia, Formerly Known As Sout…
“There is so much that none of you will understand about me or where I come from”, Johnny Byrne sneers. And he is absolutely right. I am so grateful that the unremittingly bleak …
All being well, the first equal marriages in Britain are due to take place on 29 March, the date of The Act's final performance at Trafalgar Studios. Â I'm quite convinced that the pioneer…
