Review: The Last of the Duchess, Hampstead Theatre

Written for Whatsonstage.com You wait years for a drama about Wallis Simpson and then three turn up at once. Last Christmas, she popped into...

Review: Death and the Maiden, Harold Pinter Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Sometimes a faulty production can be as instructive as a great one. Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden reads as ...

Review: 13, National Theatre

Written for Whatsonstage.com Theatre is championed for its ability to react to current events. With talk of social media revolution, impendi...

Review: A Round-Heeled Woman, Riverside Studios

Written for Time Out Taboo-busting doesn't get much tamer than this. Jane Prowse's adaptation of Jane Juska's best-selling memoi...

Review: Jumpy, Royal Court

Jumpy is just that. April De Angelis relies on momentous events – pregnancies, marital crises, affairs, gunshots – to make her points, only...

Review: Inadmissible Evidence, Donmar Warehouse

Written for Whatsonstage.com The old criticism of John Osborne is that he wrote not plays, but character studies. It holds true for Inadmiss...

Review: Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Scale, ambition and a spirit of collaboration make the inaugural event at the new Bush Theatre, which has moved fro...

Review: When the Chickens Came Home to Roost, Brixton Empire

Written for Time Out Laurence Holder's biographical drama about Malcolm X is the inaugural production of the Brixton Empire. Daljinder S...

Review: Third Floor, Trafalgar Studios

Written for Time Out Jason Hall 's Third Floor is a broad comedy about neighbourly etiquette among residents of a London apartment bloc...

Review: Saved, Lyric Hammersmith

Edward Bond hasn’t granted permission for a London production of his second and most famous play for 27 years. If that seems self-righteous,...

Review: Fit and Proper People, Soho Theatre

She’s here. She’s there. She’s every-fuckin’-where: Georgia Fitch. Georgia Fitch, who crams every major footballing scandal from recent year...

Review: Something About You (makes me want to hurt you), Asylum Chapel

Written for Culture Wars Electra , with all its grand, sweeping passions that seem to have knotted the intestines of its characters, with it...

Review: Farewell to the Theatre, Rose Theatre

Written for Time Out Delicacy is insufficient recompense for tedium and there's plenty of both in this previously unseen two-hander by H...

Review: Bound, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars Jesse Briton was still a student at East 15 when he wrote Bound , a story of six Devonshire trawlermen facing an ec...

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Southwark Playhouse

Written for Culture Wars There’s colour and character aplenty in Robin Norton-Hale’s production of Shakespeare’s least agreeable play, but i...

Review: Mixed Marriage, Finborough Theatre

Written for Culture Wars St John Ervine’s 1911 play could easily begin with the ‘Ding! Ding!’ of a boxing bell. It is, essentially, a right ...

Review: The Veil, National Theatre

Conor McPherson’s latest is a curious piece: a penny dreadful with the sort of highbrow ambitions that ought to set you back a shilling. The...

Review: The Baker's Wife, Union Theatre

Written for Time Out Michael Strassen, king of the micro-musical, has previously compacted Assassins and Company for the Union's tiny ...