In Search of Youkali… Tim Hochstrasser 11/01/2026We think we know the milieu of Kurt Weill – whether the sardonic, witty, cynical and sometimes sentimental world of...
Twelfth Night Olivia Hurton 21/12/2025Twelfth Night is a play of capricious moods, swinging dizzily between laughter and melancholy. A character describes one of its...
When We Are Married Tim Hochstrasser 20/12/2025This well-known play is nothing if not a ‘period piece.’ It specificity is as fixed and immovable as the groaning...
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Soyoon Koo 20/12/2025Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at the Orange Tree Theatre, staged by the OT Young Company, is a high-energy reimagining that...
Oh, Mary! Wilder Gutterson 19/12/2025The ability to execute slapstick and physical comedy brilliantly may be reserved for true greats like Buster Keaton or Lucille...
Reviewer's Rating The Highgate Vampire Jad Adams 19/12/2025This show begins promisingly enough as we are introduced with a screen playing black and white grainy footage of our...
Indian Ink Tim Hochstrasser 18/12/2025If The Coast of Utopia is an opera cycle, and Arcadia a symphony with complex counterpoint, then Indian Ink is a...
Never Tell Me the Odds Soyoon Koo 14/12/2025Never Tell Me the Odds arrives at the Old Red Lion Theatre as a small and concentrated piece of new...
The Mystery of Irma Vep. A Penny Dread Julie Peakman 12/12/2025Everything in this comic Gothic horror is over the top, with flashes of every spooky horror film you have ever...
Daniel’s Husband Tim Hochstrasser 10/12/2025This production is nothing if not stylish. As you wait for the play to commence, you have to admire the...