Reviewer's Rating Dev’s Army Tim Hochstrasser 16/03/2022‘Strange Fish Theatre’ perform a very valuable role in bringing to the UK the best of Irish playwrighting, whether classic...
Reviewer's rating Legacy Maria Friedman and Friends Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2022Maria Friedman closely collaborated with three composers who have died in recent years – Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Stephen...
Reviewer's rating The Woods Teddy Hempstead 12/03/2022It was about ten minutes into Russell Bolam’s fresh revival of David Mamet’s controversial ‘heterosexuality play’, The Woods, that I...
Reviewer's rating The Scent of Roses Ben Reiss 11/03/2022The Scent of Roses opens with Neve McIntosh’s Luci calmly informing her husband Chris (Peter Forbes) that she has locked...
Reviewer's rating Sheila’s Island Ben Reiss 06/03/2022Take four ‘business executives from the Salford Pennine Water Company’, strand them on an island in the middle of Derwent...
Reviewer's Rating The Telephone & Miss Fortune Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2022There are obvious attractions behind offering a double-bill for the Spring opera slot at the Guildhall: a variety of mood...
Reviwer's Rating MIMMA: a Musical of War and Friendship Julie Peakman 02/03/2022My first surprise was that this is not the usual musical theatre I am used to, but more of an...
Reviewer's Rating Proud Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2022‘Proud’ is adapted by Bren Gosling from his novel depicting the interactions between three characters in contemporary London. Roland is...
Reviewer's Rating The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten Tim Hochstrasser 25/02/2022I was really excited to see The Collaboration for completely selfish reasons. In another life, I stage-managed a beautiful show...
Reviewer's Rating Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This new and welcome study of the history of the musical in Britain fills -incredibly – a major gap in...
