BWW Review: COUNT ORY, Arcola TheatreAugust 14, 2019Opera Alegría plonk Rossini's naughty Count on the Home Front in 1943, with lots of laughs in between the fine singing and beautifully played piano.
BWW Review: 8 HOTELS, Minerva TheatreAugust 9, 2019Nicholas Wright's new play, set on the road in wartime America, examines the relationships between Paul Robeson and his Othello co-stars, José Ferrer and Uta Hagen. It does not waste that wonderful set up.
BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, Chichester Festival TheatreJuly 23, 2019Oklahoma! stands at the very start of musical theatre's post-war re-invention on Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein's template for storytelling on show for two wonderful hours. However, this production raises some unexpected questions.
BWW Review: OUR CHURCH, Watermill TheatreJuly 18, 2019Our Church looks at how a moral dilemma impacts on a small community and at how pain can vibrate through decades before re-surfacing - and it avoids the glibness of a resolution founded in easy answers.
BWW Review: PETER GYNT, National TheatreJuly 10, 2019David Hare's updating of Ibsen's Peer Gynt has plenty to say about the world in 2019 - perhaps a little too much - but James McArdle's central performance and the sheer chutzpah of the concept and direction pulls it through.
BWW Review: ONE GIANT LEAP, Jack Studio TheatreJuly 5, 2019One Giant Leap takes a good set up - a failing sci-fi show asked to fake the moon landings - but loses its way amongst predictable stereotypes and laughs that come few and far between.