58 stories by "Lizzie Loveridte"
What Arnold Wesker's play does is to convince us that behind every great playwright there is a good woman (or partner)
- Nicky Silver's black comedy , has made its way to the London theatre from a successful run in New York, complete with its director Mark Brokaw
Olivia Williams gives a remarkable and intense performance in this adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film
- Our review of Vanessa Redgrave's and James Earl Jones''s Beatrice and Benedick is summed up with s Dogberry's "When the age is in, the wit is out." . .
This production will delight David Walliams' fans because it is a show all about his large comic presence and almost every one of Bottom's lines will get a good laugh. But for the rest of us…
Theatre O have devised a performance around spies, anarchists and agent provocateurs and given it an anarchic production with flashes of brilliance. . .
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…
Thom Southerland takes another musical with a dark theme and gives it new life in a London chamber production. .
- 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!
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…
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.
Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are very impressive as the couple who cannot live without each other nor can they live without fighting .
rave 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.
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
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
It is a pretty evening in the park for this adaptation of Jane Austen, . . Read More
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…
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…
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
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…
Ayab Akhtar's Pulitzer winner comes to London
In 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 . .
Brian Cox stars in the Donmar's revival of Conor McPherson's hit play from 1997
The film that turned into a Broadway hit, is now in London
Alan Bennett's stories at the Duchess with Alex Jennings as the Yorkshire playwright
