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...
Tom Scutt
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...
Review: Belleville, Donmar Warehouse
Amy Herzog’s Belleville, at the Donmar Warehouse this winter, grasps at a few things: the experiences of ‘expats’ vs. ‘immigrants’ in foreign countries, the rom...
Review: The Lady from the Sea, Donmar Warehouse,
Written in 1888 by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea is originally set in the coastal fjords of Scandinavia. Newly adapted by Elinor ...