Reviewer's rating The Forest Tim Hochstrasser 17/02/2022This is one of those plays where it does help to read the interviews in the programme. Even more than...
Reviewer's Rating Steve: a story about modern love versus the fairytale Tim Hochstrasser 16/02/2022The Actor’s Centre, closed for some time now, reopened its doors in a blustery February renamed and rebranded as the...
Reviewer's rating The Addams Family Richard McKee 16/02/2022The 1960s were a great era for Gothic horror. We had Roger Corman in America, filming the stories of Edgar...
Reviewer's Rating The Chairs Tim Hochstrasser 12/02/2022Less well known than ‘The Bald Primadonna’ and ‘The Lesson’, this play is perhaps the most daring and original of...
Reviewer's rating The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me Tim Hochstrasser 10/02/2022Tucked away behind the main Edwardian wedding-cake of a theatre in Wimbledon is a black-box studio theatre currently housing a...
Reviewer's Rating Dirty Dancing Grace Creaton-Barber 09/02/2022Seeing the Dominion Theatre bathed in a pink glow should offer a good indication of the evening ahead. And if...
Reviewer's rating Blood Brothers Richard McKee 09/02/2022Who can remember Blue Remembered Hills, the BBC ‘Play for Today’ by Dennis Potter, broadcast in 1979? It was about...
Reviewer's Rating TIFO Finding empathy before condemnation Emma Burnell 06/02/2022This is not a play that champions England players ‘taking the knee’ at the recent European Cup Championships. Nor is...
Reviewer's rating Theodora Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2022‘Theodora’ began life at Covent Garden as an oratorio in 1750 but has not been heard there since. However, it...
Reviewer's rating Wuthering Heights Emma Burnell 05/02/2022Why is Wuthering Heights held up as a tragic romance? This was the question I walked away from the theatre...
