BWW Review: 8 HOTELS, Minerva TheatreAugust 9, 2019Nicholas Wright's new play, set on the road in wartime America, examines the relationships between Paul Robeson and his Othello co-stars, José Ferrer and Uta Hagen. It does not waste that wonderful set up.
BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, Chichester Festival TheatreJuly 23, 2019Oklahoma! stands at the very start of musical theatre's post-war re-invention on Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein's template for storytelling on show for two wonderful hours. However, this production raises some unexpected questions.
BWW Review: OUR CHURCH, Watermill TheatreJuly 18, 2019Our Church looks at how a moral dilemma impacts on a small community and at how pain can vibrate through decades before re-surfacing - and it avoids the glibness of a resolution founded in easy answers.
BWW Review: PETER GYNT, National TheatreJuly 10, 2019David Hare's updating of Ibsen's Peer Gynt has plenty to say about the world in 2019 - perhaps a little too much - but James McArdle's central performance and the sheer chutzpah of the concept and direction pulls it through.
BWW Review: ONE GIANT LEAP, Jack Studio TheatreJuly 5, 2019One Giant Leap takes a good set up - a failing sci-fi show asked to fake the moon landings - but loses its way amongst predictable stereotypes and laughs that come few and far between.
BWW Review: SUMMER ROLLS, Park TheatreJune 28, 2019Summer Rolls takes us into the heart of a British Vietnamese family that is struggling to deal with the present, a consequence of the long shadow cast by the past.
BWW Review: HAMLET, St Paul's Church, Covent GardenJune 26, 2019Iris Theatre's summer season at St Paul's Church kicks off with an innovative Hamlet in which not all the bells and whistles work, but which boasts a fine central performance from Jenet Le Lacheur.
BWW Review: BORIS GODUNOV, Royal Opera HouseJune 20, 2019Illuminated by a masterful performance from Bryn Terfel, this production is a gruelling but rewarding, often stunning, revisit to the Musorgsky's original 1869 version.