Goodnight Mister Tom Joshua Korber Hoffman 08/04/2016 The large-scale evacuation of children from London during World War Two is a topic which has been written about many times. Michelle Magorian’s 1981 n...
X Oliver J. Weinfeld 08/04/2016 The venue needs no introduction – The Royal Court is one of London’s best known theatres, renowned for innovative new writing. So it’s no surprise the...
The Man in the Woman’s Shoes Richard McKee 07/04/2016 Reviewers for Plays To See must specify the genre of what they are reviewing (comedy, drama, opera, or whatever). But this reviewer could think of no...
The Non-Stop Connolly Show Owen Davies 07/04/2016 This year sees the centenary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Though the insurrection was defeated and some of its leaders were executed, the Rising i...
Doctor Faustus Mel Cooper 07/04/2016 The new production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus by director Maria Aberg is possibly the most convincing interpretation of this play that I ...
Don Quixote Mel Cooper 05/04/2016 Angus Jackson, who directed a brilliant adaptation of the life of J Robert Oppenheimer for the RSC last year, has now done for the same company a thea...
All’s Well That Ends Well Rebecca Coates 02/04/2016 Like Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well is a ‘problem play’ rather than a true comedy, a play where the comedy is often defined more by a ...
Thriller, Live Mel Cooper 16/03/2016 I went to Thriller, Live, a Michael Jackson Tribute Show and pop concert, in a sceptical frame of mind. My wife, who is much more an afficionado of th...
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Mel Cooper 11/03/2016 I remember a rather famous movie star associated with old MGM musicals once saying to me that people should not sneer at Andrew Lloyd Webber as far as...
The Tailor of Inverness Harry Tennison 04/03/2016 Never have I seen an audience so quickly break into rapturous applause as I did at Matthew Zajac’s The Tailor of Inverness. The one-man play, also sta...
