Theatre News and Reviews

Review: The Starry Messenger at Wyndham’s Theatre

By Kit Benjamin Thursday, June 6 2019, 09:31

The Starry Messenger Mark Williams (Matthew Broderick) is a disappointed, middle-aged astronomy teacher but not (as we are frequently reminded) an astronomer: In other words, he is in the gutter but looking at the stars. Or, if not in the gutter, at least in an unfulfilling marriage.

03 Jun

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Review: THIS ISLAND’S MINE at The Kings Head Theatre

By Phil Willmott Monday, June 3 2019, 10:50

This Island's Mine Remarkably this is the first ever revival of Philip Osment’s beautiful play, a seminal work from a now defunct theatre company called Gay Sweatshop.

These days there’s an openly gay agenda to huge swathes of UK Theatre (TV too) but back in the late 1980s the LGBT community was so marginalised that this Arts Council funded organisation was necessary to make work for and about us. (I'm very proud to say I also wrote a hit play for them some years later)

31 May

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Review: BENEATH THE BLUE RINSE at the Park Theatre

By Stuart King Friday, May 31 2019, 15:22

Beneath The Blue Rinse - Park Theatre Beneath the Blue Rinse is the unlikely title of Park Theatre’s latest offering which uses as its basis, the extreme reactions of an OAP when she’s confronted by the disreputable behaviour of an alarm salesman determined to use her to hit his bonus target.

30 May

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Review: RUTHERFORD AND SON at the National Theatre

By Phil Willmott Thursday, May 30 2019, 20:53

Rutherford and Son - National Theatre I must confess to feeling seriously conflicted by the National Theatre under the current Artistic Directorship of Rufus Norris. I’m a political animal and it’s been a thrill to find artists from underrepresented groups fast tracked on to its high profile stages, even if they’re not quite ready. But there’s another part of me that just wants to see great actors of any background in beautifully presented great plays, as you could when I first came to London.