Review: Lettice and Lovage, Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre
The first 45 minutes or so of Trevor Nunn’s production of Lettice and Lovage at the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre are an utter delight. Peter Shaffer’s three...
Dan Rubins
Review: The Addams Family, New Wimbledon Theatre
Gomez and Morticia might be hoping for an unhappily ever after, but the UK tour of The Addams Family, now stopping off at the New Wimbledon Theatre, offers only...
Review: This Was A Man, Leicester Square Theatre
Noël Coward’s 1926 This Was A Man had the good fortune to be banned before its London premiere for its casual depiction of adultery. That scandalous history has...
Review: Don Carlo, Royal Opera House
The Act 1 set for Nicholas Hytner’s stellar production of Don Carlo, now in its third revival at the Royal Opera House, looks a bit like a dollhouse designer’s ...
Review: Salomé, National Theatre
Plenty of pretty sand swirls around the stage of the National Theatre in director-writer Yaël Farber’s new play Salomé. But that’s not enough to conceal the bar...
Review: Nova Insula, Putney Library
A confession: I find few immersive theatre experiences as unpleasant as those in which performers take notice of me: I don’t like being talked to or touched or ...
Dan Rubins
Originally from New York City, Dan is a writer, composer, and educator currently studying Shakespeare at King's College London. When not at the theatre, he usually can be found singing with two London choirs or reading obscure early modern plays at the library.