Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory, review By Charles Spencer (***)
Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory is great fun, but is let down by Tamzin Outhwaite in the lead role.
Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory is great fun, but is let down by Tamzin Outhwaite in the lead role.
Debbie Allen's staging of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with an entirely black cast mingles dark laughter and deep pain.
Age has failed to wither Alan Bennett's powers in the deeply and unexpectedly moving The Habit of Art at the National Theatre.
Sienna Miller and Johnny Lee Miller fail to generate convincing chemistry in Patrick Marber's re-imagining of August Strindberg's Miss Julie.
Jane Horrocks shines as Annie in spite of overly obtrusive work from the director and designer in this production of Annie Get Your Gun at the Young Vic.
James Thiérrée's Raoul at the Barbican Theatre is based on a dreamy, threadbare scenario.
Dominic West captures Segismundo's baffled confusion and pain in Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Life Is A Dream at the Donmar Warehouse.
John Barrowman disappoints in the lead role of the exuberant musical.
David Hare's play about the financial crisis, The Power of Yes, offers lots of facts but little drama.
Black British Theatre practitioners are packing it in and heading for the States - and our industry can't afford it.
Prick Up Your Ears, Simon Bent's play about Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, lacks the wit and daring of Orton at his best.
Dominic West's part in Life Is A Dream, a surreal Spanish play at the Donmar Warehouse, is one of his toughest yet.
Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Ronald Pickup all begged their girls not to go into acting, but to no avail. The daughters prepare to tackle Ayckbourn and Strindberg together.
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