Review: THE PASSENGER, Finborough TheatreFebruary 14, 2025Ensemble work tells an important story, but too quickly and too loudly for its full horror to sink in
Review: OUTLYING ISLANDS, Jermyn Street TheatreFebruary 12, 2025Dazzling acting and directing delivers a fine revival in a perfect space
Review: KS6: SMALL FORWARD, The Pit Barbican CentreFebruary 7, 2025Katsiaryna Snytsina, the eponymous KS6, tells an often warm and witty tale of her own empowerment, with a burning ambition to do the same for her country
Review: AS LONG AS WE ARE BREATHING, Arcola TheatreJanuary 31, 2025Miriam Freedman's stroy is both a tribute to Human Spirit and a warning for today
Review: AIDA, Royal Ballet and OperaJanuary 29, 2025Robert Carsen's vision is as uncompromising as ever, but the world has changed in three short years
Review: ŁUKASZ TWARKOWSKI: THE EMPLOYEES, Southbank CentreJanuary 18, 2025Polish production is powerful theare-making, but lacks heart and conviction in its storytelling
Review: MARIA, in Cinemas and StreamingDecember 31, 2024Angelina Jolie is compelling in a movie that concentrates on the misery to the exclusion of almost everything else in the diva's life
Review: HANSEL AND GRETEL, Royal Ballet and OperaDecember 29, 2024Macabre and spectacular, this is Christmas fare as it once was and should still be, fully trusting its audience.
Critics' Choice: Gary Naylor's Best Theatre of 2024December 26, 2024There's praise for plays old and new and musicals, well, mainly old
Review: SLEEPING BEAUTY, The Bridge House TheatreDecember 22, 2024Traditional fringe panto offers value and and the comfort of familiarity and escapism at Christmas
Review: PAN, Chickenshed TheatreDecember 20, 2024Pan is back with songs and spectacle and a lesson about what really matters in life
Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, Almeida TheatreDecember 18, 2024Daisy Edgar-Jones and Kingsley Ben-Adir lead a fine cast in an impressive, if gruelling, examination of the destructive power of mendacity
Review: CARLOS ACOSTA'S NUTCRACKER IN HAVANA, Southbank CentreDecember 12, 2024Carlos Acosta's touring show is a delightful Christmassy treat
Review: THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY, Southwark PlayhouseDecember 11, 2024A valiant effort, but too long and too ambitious to achieve its aim of transforming Flaubert's tragic heroine into a comic lead
Review: BETTE AND JOAN, Park TheatreDecember 9, 2024Greta Scacchi and Felicity Dean are gruesomely grotesque but also wonderfully warm as the fading titans of the Golden Age of Hollywood
Interview: Actor Producer Charlie MacGechan of Run At It SHOUTINGDecember 9, 2024An Actor / Producer / Executive talks about how he got started, what he's done and what the future might hold.
Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Orange Tree TheatreDecember 1, 2024Superb performances from a cast entirely at ease with themselves and their director make this show a must-see
Review: MAZZ MURRAY: THE MUSIC OF DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Adelphi TheatreNovember 27, 2024Mazz Murray delivers a classy spectacular, but do we need all those phones in the front two rows?
Review: THE UNSEEN, Riverside StudiosNovember 22, 2024Prisoners not the only victims of tyranny's dehumanisation of body and soul