5.0
Review: A Very Expensive Poison, The Old Vic
At once anachronistic, investigative and deeply morally invested, it’s easy to see a million and one ways in which Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison could...
Tom Scutt
5.0
3.0
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, Barbican
What strikes me halfway through the first act of Timothy Sheader’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, is what a truly bizarre subject this is to base a rock...
Review: Summer and Smoke, Duke of York’s Theatre
Written in 1948, Summer And Smoke by Tennessee Williams is far from one of his most performed works. Overshadowed by the likes of The Glass Menagerie and A Stre...
Review: Little Shop of Horrors, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Two things come to mind whenever someone mentions Little Shop of Horrors: amateur productions (sometimes good, but mostly bad) and Steve Martin cruising around ...
Review: Julie, National Theatre
This updated version of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, drops the Miss, and plunges us into a modernised upstairs-downstairs conundrum. In Polly Stenham’s upda...
Review: Summer and Smoke, Almeida Theatre
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall, Tennessee Williams’ 1948 play Summer and Smoke arrives at the Almeida Theatre in the week that the meteorological season of sprin...