Reviewer's Rating The Philanderer Tom Aitken 21/05/2016he Philanderer was Shaw’s second completed play, its first version having been written in 1893, following the first performances of...
Reviewer's Rating Ophelias Zimmer Luke Davies 20/05/2016ver since Virginia Woolf reflected on what literary history might have looked like if female authors hadn’t been hampered by...
Reviewer's Rating Poppies: A New Musical Richard Voyce 20/05/2016oppies, which has just opened at The Space on Westferry Road, has the best constructed and written book for a...
Reviewer's Rating Horrible Histories: Incredible Invaders Zoe Skipworth 20/05/2016orrible Histories holds a very special place in my heart: I grew up with the books as a child and...
Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Night’s Dream Rowena Hawkins 18/05/2016ny production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream lives and dies by its rude Mechanicals and their farcical amateur production...
Reviewer's Rating Kali Urvashi Vashist 18/05/2016he Crick Crack Club’s lineup of multi-talented performers dabble and delve deep into a wide range of oral, linguistic and...
Reviewer's Rating The Local Stigmatic Sam Pengelly 13/05/2016he Local Stigmatic still resonates. Director Michael Toumey confronts us with Heathcote Williams’ aggressive, vitriolic and pulsating drama on its...
Reviewer's Rating The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2016erformances of Schubert’s late song cycle ‘A Winter’s Journey’ are usually deeply inward experiences: just the singer, a grand piano...
Reviewer's Rating Richard Alston Dance Company: An Italian in Madrid, Burning, Nomadic Pauline Flannery 12/05/2016he eclectic music mix spans Romany singing with urban hip-hop, the frenetic patterning of Listz’s Dante Sonata and the delicate,...
Reviewer's Rating King Lear Adrian Pulle 11/05/2016he Richmond Theatre’s wonderful ‘King Lear’ opens with discord: the fragile but steely-eyed Cordelia (Beth Cooke) enters the bare stage...