Review: Tinderbox, Broadway Studios

Written for Time Out Its flaws remain unhealed, but second time around - post-riots, post-Starkey - Lucy Kirkwood's debut play should be...

Review: Decade, Commodity Quay

Written for Culture Wars Marking the tenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre, Rupert Goold’s Decade aims to peel back the...

Review: The Time Out, Forest Fringe & A Machine to See With, St George's West, Edinburgh

Written for Culture Wars There is, at the heart of theatre, a game of hide and seek. Novels can be stories taken as they are, at face value:...

Review: Venus at Broadmoor/The Demon Box, Finborough Theatre

Written for Time Out Compared to Bedlam, as seen on the Globe stage last year in Nell Leyshon's play of the same name, Broadmoor seems a...

Review: The Faith Machine, Royal Court

Written for Culture Wars Though absolutely attached to the offstage world, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s latest reaches beyond mere topicality. It i...

Review: Wittenberg, Gate Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Hamlet, Dr Faustus and Martin Luther walk into a student union bar. That’s pretty much the premise of David Davalos...

Review: You Once Said Yes, Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe

Written for Culture Wars There’s just about the spoonful of sugar in You Once Said Yes to help its bitter medicine go down. It is essential...