After its premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival and its highly acclaimed run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, this theatrical adaptation of Eimear McBride’s debut and gripping novel A GIRL IS A HALF FORMED THING arrives at The Young Vic. It is one of the most important and urgent productions you will see.
Theatre News and Reviews


Review: A GIRL IS A HALF FORMED THING at The Young Vic
By Nastazja Domaradzka Friday, February 26 2016, 09:19


Review: THE ENCOUNTER at the Barbican Theatre
By Harriet Grenville Thursday, February 25 2016, 14:09
The theatre company Complicite are known for their dedication to long periods of research and wide reach of collaboration, to devise innovative, imaginative theatre and THE ENCOUNTER, Simon McBurney’s latest offering currently playing at the Barbican, is no exception.


Review: Jeff Wayne's musical version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS at the Dominion Theatre
By Davor Golub Thursday, February 25 2016, 13:18
Well SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER has finally met its match! I have sat through some duff shows at the Dominion Theatre but this one takes the cake. Anyone remember David Cassidy as an intergalactic warrior in TIME acting along with a 3-D hologram of Lord Olivier’s head? Well, the hologram is back. However this time it is Liam Neeson and we’ve progressed to a whole body hologram.


Review: NORMA at English National Opera
By Kit Benjamin Thursday, February 25 2016, 12:37
Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini, belongs to a school of opera known as Bel Canto which, to translate somewhat freely, could be said to mean “it’s all about the singing”. Some of the music can be a bit humdrum and the plots bizarre, but the pulses of the opera-loving public are set racing so frantically by the dazzling vocal firework displays that we are prepared to forgive almost anything. Luckily.


Review: MOTOWN at the Shaftesbury Theatre
By Hugh Wooldridge Thursday, February 25 2016, 11:26
While we here in Britain were listening to The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Cliff Richard and The Shadows, most of America was listening to the extraordinary output and music of Berry Gordy, the founder and owner of the (Tamla) Motown label.
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