Theatre Reviews & More

A jelly-filled musical treat. There’s a time and a place for a silly musical – in the afternoon at the Fringe. Light-hearted musicals are...

A sandal-clad power struggle Usually, a critic aims to be a fly on the wall, to blend into the crowd and let the performance unfold before

Dinosaur parody is a roaring good time It’s not often that a limited budget works in a show’s favour. Usually, if you are putting on a

Feathered fun with a crazy swan: You probably know that Swan Lake is a story that can be told in many different ways. Some versions have...

Soft furnishings and social commentary: How far would you go for some parquet flooring and a smeg fridge? In Philip Ridley’s dark comedy...

Murder mystery sequel is dead on arrival: Sequels are a rare thing in theatre, particularly outside of a bubble like London or the Fringe...

Frenzied performances and a slow death: Urgh another adaptation of an old film that does nothing with the source material…but what is this?

A sitcom cast imprisoned in a play: This is Where We Get Off, by Ingram Noble and Heather Spiden, has very little to do with buses....

A farce that fails to hit the Marx: Twenty minutes before Tuesday’s performance of Marx in London I ran into someone I met once..

Comedy that reconciles the gay and the godly: If God made man in his own image, then perhaps his voice mimics each person he speaks to?...