Review: The Hothouse
Every so often, perhaps once in a generation, an actor can seem to have been born to play a role. Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard III, for instance. In The Ho...
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Review: Merrily We Roll Along
It took me a while to warm to Maria Friedman’s production of Merrily We Roll Along. At first I didn’t quite get it. I was bemused rather than enthralled, as...
Interview with playwright Luke Barnes
With his play Bottleneck currently at Soho Theatre until 9th March, Luke Barnes tells us more about storytelling and what's exciting about theatre.
Review: Bottleneck and Bitch Boxer
On the same day that writer Fin Kennedy released ‘In Battalions’, his report into the effect of the cuts on new writing for the stage, Soho Theatre opened a dou...
Theatre comment: In defence of the arts
In this age of austerity, it is very easy to take a sniffy and dismissive attitude to the arts. "Why save a theatre when you can save a hospital?" appears to ...
Competition: Win tickets to God’s Property at Soho Theatre
It is competition time! Soho theatre have kindly given us a pair of tickets for God’s Property by Arinze Kene on Thursday 28 February. The script for the produc...