Richard McKee is a lawyer, and used to be a judge, but despite that (or because of that) he likes comedy, cabaret and pantomime. These are the things that he reviews for Plays to See, for which – in view of his great age – he is also a trustee. He leaves the serious stuff to the young! But seriously, though, he thinks it is a great idea for young reviewers to hone their critical faculties and communication skills by writing for Plays to See, and feels privileged to be involved in its current expansion.
Upstairs at the Soho Theatre, which provides a space for fringe productions to be staged in the middle of London, the one-man and two-women troupe fro...
This is the European première of a musical first staged off-Broadway in 2012, and it is the best thing I have seen all year. The auditorium in the sm...
Emma Packer is a very good actress, and the role that she adopts in this one-woman performance is played with great conviction and commitment. And au...
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone.” With those words of encouragement, in a song familiar to us all, there comes...
Between now and 12th July the studio theatre at Jermyn Street near Piccadilly Circus, small in size but big in the range of its work, is hosting a Sou...
Nothing odd will do long”, opined Dr Johnson. “Tristram Shandy did not last.” Laurence Sterne, the author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shand...
First performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013 and subsequently transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall, this mordant political satire ma...
From the first warbling blue note of the saxophone solo that opened the show, it was clear that something special was in store. Right enough, the thr...
A long queue snaked its way from Cambridge Circus, in the heart of London’s Theatreland, round the corner into Earlham Street, and round another corne...
Walk through the Edwardian opulence of the Hippodrome in Leicester Square – past the baccarat, the poker and the roulette tables, for the Hippodrome i...
