Reviewer's rating A Tale of Two Cities Jad Adams 22/05/2026There are problems with adaptations of Dickens which are hard to surmount. His novels were published serially so their structure...
Quartet in Autumn Julie Peakman 21/05/2026 Barbara Pym’s novels are always particularly heart-warming, if a little sad. Author Samantha Harvey has successfully adapted the book...
Reviewer's rating Churchill’s Urinal Jad Adams 20/05/2026Rosie Holt brightened the Covid years with her social media posts as an unconsciously self-satirising Tory lady. With her sleek...
Sherlock Holmes Sara Tiron 19/05/2026At Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Sherlock Holmes transforms detective fiction into something vividly alive. Written by Joel Horwood and...
Stage Kiss Rivka Jacobson 18/05/2026Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss, directed here by Blanche McIntyre, begins as a sparkling backstage comedy in which two actors, cast...
An Ideal Husband Soyoon Koo 17/05/2026Oscar Wilde’s “lamia-like” Mrs. Cheveley archly poses to Sir Robert Chiltern, “Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.” Wilde’s world...
Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil Ben Reiss 15/05/2026The idea of sport – the most important of the unimportant things – as a metaphor for the triumphs and...
1536 Olivia Hurton 14/05/2026Who, as a child, did not skip around the playground after history lessons chanting, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’?...
Noughts and Crosses Sara Tiron 14/05/2026At Hackney Empire, a theatre whose setting makes questions of race, class, and belonging feel immediate rather than abstract, Pilot...
Forgiveness of a Monster Rhys John Edwards 14/05/2026 SHERMAN THEATRE, CARDIFF. Forgiveness of a Monster is a rare theatrical sequel. Plays don’t often get ‘part twos’. I...
