Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Noel Coward Theatre

Written for Time Out Iqbal Khan's India-set RSC production of 'Much Ado…' is a fine note to finish this year's phenomenal Wo...

Review: One Day When We Were Young, Roundabout Season

Written for Culture Wars Time runs away. Life catches up. We must be slowing down. British playwrights have taken to time-travel recently. M...

Review: Mudlarks, Bush Theatre

Written for Culture Wars A dead end in a dead end town – and what better dead end for " a generation stuck in quicksand " than the...

Review: Big Hits, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Big Hits certainly doesn’t pull its punches. It swells, over 90 minutes, into a full-blast lambast; a roar of disg...

Review: Thom Pain, Print Room

Written for Time Out Life is short and life is shit. Both sentiments can seem like truisms on stage, but they're rarely so carefully sew...

Review: Love and Information, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Love and Information sets out to overload. Fifty-one scenes – playlets really – come thick and fast, each firing d...

Review: The Mystery of Charles Dickens, Playhouse Theatre

Written for Time Out Simon Callow has built himself a tidy sideline as a Charles Dickens tribute act, so the great Victorian novelist's ...

Review: King Lear, Almeida Theatre

Written for Culture Wars In the middle of that wind-wracked heath, a sapling sprouts; a shoot of green in a barren wasteland. It troubles yo...

Review: Choir Boy, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Patience is not a virtue one generally associates with new writing; particularly today, given a development culture...

Review: Three Sisters, Young Vic

Written for Time Out "You ain't going to Moscow, baby," quips a minor character in auteur director Benedict Andrews's icon...

Review: Motor Vehicle Sundown, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars The passenger seat of a Skoda Fabia is an unlikely place to realise you’re in the same boat as Willy Loman. However...

Review: Brand New Ancients, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Spoken word rarely really fires me up. I can sit alongside it perfectly happily and leave, at the end, with an appr...

Review: Yours for the Asking, Orange Tree

Written for Time Out Four adverts fit to make Sophie Dahl blush hang around the Orange Tree, threatening to turn it blue. Susi Roman (Mia Au...

Review: Head of a Woman Double Bill, Chelsea Theatre

Love theatre, love liveness, right? Well, yeah, I guess, but so often liveness isn’t really that at all. Lyn Gardner has her mantra about be...

Review: Troilus and Cressida, Riverside Studios

A play is more than a set of circumstances. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with the RSC and Wooster Group’s (dis)joint(ed) production o...