Review: The Big Fellah, Lyric Hammersmith

As David Costello, Finbar Lynch bursts in to the New York flat being used as an IRA safe house. He barely breaks stride, unlocking, swishing...

Review: Lovers Walk, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars There's something about the South Bank. Somehow, it overcomes its own cliche to retain its romance. Somehow you...

Review: Boiling Frogs, Southwark Playhouse

An edited version appeared in Time Out You can't boil a frog by adding hot water. Gradually increase the heat, however, and it will acce...

Review: Deathtrap, Noel Coward Theatre

Written for Culture Wars There’s more than a whiff of The Master Builder about Ira Levin’s comedy-thriller. The once-celebrated crime write...

Review: The Wonderful World of Hugh Hughes, Barbican Pit Theatre

Written for Time Out Hugh Hughes could stare into the bottom of a pint glass, swill the dregs and still call it half-full. He sees the world...

Review: Waiting in the Wings, Pentameters Theatre

Written for Time Out They don't make them like this any more. Waiting in the Wings , the fiftieth play to emerge from the nib of Noel Co...

Review: Clybourne Park, Royal Court

“Knowledge is power, Bev.” So decrees all-American Jim when bickering with his wife over the origins of the word Neapolitan as applied to th...

Review: How to be an Other Woman, Gate Theatre

Written for Culture Wars There comes a certain point in a young woman’s life, probably somewhere in her early to mid-twenties, when the plac...

Review: The Maddening Rain, Old Red Lion

Written for Culture Wars Across the stage of the Old Red Lion, yellow arrows point to a door labelled ‘Stage Right Exit.’ The way out is cle...

Review: Teenage Riot, Traverse Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Teenage Riot is a magic eye. / It’s a two-tone tie. / It’s a line-drawn bunny that seems like a duck. / It’s a rot...