The Girls, Phoenix Theatre
The, ahem, ladies do what they can with a show at once overfamiliar and overlong Why? That's the abiding question that hangs over The Girls, the sluggish and entirely pro forma Tim Firth-Gar…
The, ahem, ladies do what they can with a show at once overfamiliar and overlong Why? That's the abiding question that hangs over The Girls, the sluggish and entirely pro forma Tim Firth-Gar…
Startling hour-long play mixes the poignant and the playful Unimaginable tragedy is given poignant, piquant form in Us/Them, the hour-long performance piece from Belgian theatre company BRON…
America's new president gives rise to galvanic, sometimes scary theatreThere's an irony to be found in the fact that America's 45th president is already abolishing any and all things to…
Several National Theatre knock-outs, a corker or three at the Court, and Billie Piper packed a wallop Life threw numerous, possibly irrevocable curveballs at us all during 2016, which in tur…
Early Chekhov begins strongly, then falls away This Chekhov-intensive year comes to a muted climax with a rare sighting of Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's reappraisal of the Russian master's unt…
Bijou Broadway title proves supremely winningThere are no cartwheels, and no one does the splits, in the new London revival of that most cherishable of Broadway musicals, She Loves Me, which…
A star is born but the show still creaksThat old saw about a star being born really is on view at the Noel Coward Theatre, where newcomer Charlie Stemp justifies and then some, the fuss bein…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's trans-Atlantic transfer is a blast When's the last time you heard an Andrew Lloyd Webber show described as a gas, a hoot, an unpretentious delight? All those quali…
HOWARD DAVIES: AN APPRECIATION The peerless directors' director cast a spell over audiences across the repertoireThe peerless directors' director cast a spell over audiences across the …