Review: Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy, Barbican Silk Street Theatre

Written for Culture Wars More than any other theatrical medium, puppetry has the ability to shatter the boundaries of possibility. A well-ma...

Review: The Hounding of David Oluwale, Hackney Empire

Written for Whats On Stage On the 4th of May 1969, David Oluwale’s badly beaten body was heaved out of the River Aire. An immigrant from Lag...

Review: The Overcoat, Lyric Hammersmith

Written for WhatsOnStage.com Studio-based theatre, for so long the preserve of the frivolous and the makeshift, has truly come of age, burst...

The Rise and Fall of the Ceiling

A new Guardian Theatre Blog post here . Not sure, how this one will go down, but we'll see. In the meantime, I seem to have (almost) fou...

Review: Hysteria, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Has evolution led to this? A dinner date so tremulous that it makes one long for the good old days of hunter-gather...

Review: New Electric Ballroom, Riverside Studios

Written for Culture Wars In form, Enda Walsh’s latest is almost the exact mirror image of his previous play, The Walworth Farce . While the ...

Review: Mission Possible - Lads and Dads Move!, The Place

Written for Culture Wars Looming large for any abstract investigation of gender are the dangers of stereotyping. After all, in taking malene...

Review: Hallelujah, Theatre 503

Written for The Stage If ever a play had its finger on the pulse, it is Jane Bodie’s wry funeral parlour comedy. From Alexandra Burke to rec...

A 'Plague' on Both Their Houses

Just as violence begets violence, criticism has this week spun itself into a cyclone in a teacup over Plague Over England. Usually, I despis...

Gaza: An Alternative Viewpoint

What with the flurry of debate that has spilt from our stages and dominated the Guardian Theatre Blog , it seems to me that the attempted ac...