80 The Sex Lives of Puppets Jad Adams 06/01/2024 1406From pet names for genitals to talk of venereal diseases killing the moment, The Sex Lives of Puppets constantly veers...
60 Kagami Julie Peakman 05/01/2024 1014Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer and pianist who died in 2023. Yet here he is playing on a stately...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Tim Hochstrasser 29/12/2023 1286Antic Disposition have gained a distinguished reputation for their adaptation of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, performed now for a decade...
80 The Motive and the Cue Jad Adams 21/12/2023 985The Motive and the Cue opens in a Broadway rehearsal room where the cast assembles with the intention of creating...
Reviewer's Rating Rock ‘N’ Roll Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2023 1001This play was originally produced at the Royal Court back in 2006 and now returns to Hampstead at Stoppard’s suggestion....
Reviewer's Rating Talking About The Fire Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2023 762With the recent intense coverage of ‘Oppenheimer’, nuclear weapons are very much back under public scrutiny; so there is certainly...
Reviewer's Rating Pacific Overtures Tim Hochstrasser 08/12/2023 964‘Pacific Overtures’ was written in 1976, during Sondheim’s golden years, just after ‘A Little Night Music’ and before ‘Sweeney Todd’....
The Homecoming Hal Wooliscroft 06/12/2023 1173Matthew Dunster’s production of Pinter’s iconic play retains all of its troubling power, whilst managing to give its sole female...
Reviewer's Rating Dreaming and Drowning Tim Hochstrasser 05/12/2023 857The intimate space of the Bush studio theatre is currently home to a fine, taut, piece of new writing by...
Reviewer's Rating Taming Who? Tim Hochstrasser 04/12/2023 1116I have written here before of the remarkable and under-appreciated work done by Inter-Mission Youth Theatre, and their latest production,...