17 stories by "Ryan Sullivan"
"A real life disaster movie in the sky," is how the makers of As The World Tipped billed the show and they delivered. High in the sky above Greenwich hung a cinema screen showing the destruc…
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off. The title handily provides a synopsis of the show, but allow me to embellish it for the sticklers for detail out there. Mary is the story of the…
Prometheus Bound is a classic piece of theatre, part of a trilogy of plays written by Aeschylus about the eponymous Titan, Prometheus. Considering it would have been performed 2,500 years ag…
The title of The Play That Goes Wrong is a knowing wink to the audience from a company which gets everything right. Whodunnit? Who cares when it is this funny? Charles Haversham has been fou…
Woody Allen has been many things. He is an Academy Award-winning actor, writer and director. He is one of the world's most famous Jewish celebrities. And once he was a stand up comedian. Has…
The Cherry Orchard is a play about change. The outdated aristocracy comes under threat from the emerging middle class, and must adapt or fall victim to progress. Chekhov being Chekhov, the c…
Don't you know there's a war on? Scallyways presents an alternate history where the Nazis march in their hobnailed jackboots into Britain. Only the Auxiliary Units of 5,000 brave men and wom…
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut comes from excellent stock. This loving homage to the film of the same name  is chock full of your favourite lines – some of the most iconic in cinema.…
"The play’s the thing." Roger Rees runs us through a veritable top twenty of Shakespeare's best lines, in an eclectic mix of performance, ruminations, commentary and personal anecdotes…
Put your programmes down, stop talking and please switch off your phones – or you'll be given a severe pinching. The lights come up and we are thrown headlong into the storm; The Tempe…
Don't let the name fool you, Barefoot in the Park is not a promenade performance around Kew Gardens. Instead it is the Tony-award winning screwball comedy by Neil Simon. Written in 1963 &…
Welcome to theatre, in widescreen. Wild Swans is a historical epic that spans 30 years of China’s history in an hour-and-a-half. The stage has been stretched to fit it all in. Taking c…
He’s a drunk, he’s a rascal and he’s the reason to spend a night out at Two Cities. Sydney Carton " played by the charismatic Michael Howe " is the hero of this Dickensian …
Life is full of uncertainties, and the way we each decide how to deal with this is very revealing. When you add love to the mix, you only muddle it all further. Chekhov knew it and he had th…
Expectations are dangerous things. Walking into the New Diorama again to see another part of The Faction’s rep season, I was greeted by revellers humming the conga. The party was in fu…
The plot of Twelfth Night has always been ridiculous. Violia dresses as a man and is employed by the Duke to woo the Countess. Naturally, the Countess falls for the servant, the servant fall…
Quick warning: The Drifters is not a piece of theatre. The Icons Tour is what you’d expect from 1950s doo-wop sensation, a pop-fuelled jaunt through their greatest hits. The show was d…
