Review: Mongrel Island, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Ed Harris' first major play - smartly partnered with Anthony Neilson's Realism at the Soho Theatre - is, f...

Review: Wunderkammer, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars When circus moves its audience, it usually does so via the extraordinary, with feats of grace or daring. We marvel ...

Portrait: Kevin Spacey as Richard III, Old Vic

The following is an experiment that grew out of Lyn Gardner's Critic's Notebook on the absence of actors in theatre criticism. Larg...

Review: Bodies Unfinished, Brockley Jack Theatre

Written for Time Out An existential shrug of a play, Bodies Unfinished makes life seem an extension of the gestation period. Like cells in ...

Review: Mirror Teeth, Finborough Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Once again, the minnow that is the tiny Finborough Theatre is punching above its weight. With Nick Gill’s Mirror Te...

Review: As I Like It, Chelsea Theatre

Written for Time Out The sort of semi-autobiographical splurge that ought never have reached the stage, Amanda Eliasch and Lyall Watson'...

Review: Emperor and the Galilean, National Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Now this, this is the sort of staging the Olivier deserves. Jonathan Kent and his designer Paul Brown have thrown e...