★ ★ ★ The War of the Worlds Anna Levitt-Malik. 19/10/2024The Black Mirror-fication of a Beloved Classic A modern dystopia collides with a historical event in the National Youth Theatre’s...
Reviewers Rating The King of Hollywood Julie Peakman 18/10/2024Douglas Fairbanks sits at a dining table somewhere in limbo. He has been dead for 37 years since his last...
Reviewer's rating Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Jad Adams 17/10/2024A single microphone rises from a misty stage in a production based on Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five. This is the...
Oedipus Olivia Hurton 16/10/2024Robert Icke’s Oedipus is set in a modern political world. Election campaigns are fought with highly polished videos put out by...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Rivka Jacobson 16/10/2024Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank attempts to delve into themes of Jewish identity,...
Brace Brace Tim Hochstrasser 16/10/2024What strikes you first and – ultimately – last about this show is the set and how it is used...
The Lehman Trilogy Andrew J Defrin 15/10/2024Ben Power’s adaptation of Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s epic The Lehman Trilogy is just that; an epic. Chronicling the Lehman family’s...
Fidelio Marc Berman 15/10/2024Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, is often seen as a “problem” piece. It has wonderful music, starting with the overture so...
Eurydice Tim Hochstrasser 15/10/2024Sarah Ruhl’s new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre is a real treat on so many levels. I was a...
Foreverland Tim Hochstrasser 14/10/2024Emma Hemingford’s new play poses two essential questions – if we could prolong human life more or less without limit,...
