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Sweeney Todd, Chichester Festival - review

12.10.11
It's been another cherishable season at the resurgent Chichester Festival Theatre but there's a wonderful sense that they've been saving the best until last... more

Fine set pieces illuminate She Loves Me

17.05.11
It may not boast the show-stopping sequences of Singin' in the Rain or the dark panache of Sweeney Todd, but what She Loves Me should have is charm... more

Twelfth Night has a pleasing intimacy but not enough sexiness

19.01.11
Rebecca Hall is making her debut at the National Theatre, over which her father presided for 15 years, and Twelfth Night seems an apt choice... more

Breakfast goes far too lightly at Tiffany's

30.09.09
Breakfast at Tiffany's is froth with a small shot of naughtiness in it — a cappuccino of a play, stylish perhaps but not nourishing.... more

Enron is a dashing tale of greed

23.09.09
Enron reclaims its rise and fall as a telling harbinger of the more recent global boom and bust.... more

Enron dazzles as a corporate Macbeth

23.07.09
Rupert Goold the returns with the highbrow hit of the year - Enron. As the phrase goes, “buy now” for an outstanding evening.... more

Transatlantic ambition from The Bridge Project

10.06.09
The Bridge Project is a joint venture between Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey, staging The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard, but the productions do not fully satisfy.... more

Oliver! needs more of a twist

15.01.09
What kept the first-nighters teetering on the verge of delighted hysteria throughout the almost £5 million extravaganza that is Oliver!?. ... more

Ties that bind on the east side

16.04.08
Small Change lives up to its title and gets locked in a repetitive, emotional cycle, says Nicholas de Jongh. ... more

Transfixed by the case against Judas

04.04.08
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by promising American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a divinely amusing and unconventional comedy which poses hard questions regarding religion.... more

Hollywood star joins list of Standard presenters

26.11.07
Christian Slater, Sheila Hancock, Samuel West and Olivia Williams complete the list of presenters for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Double winner and TV comic present awards

21.11.07
Stage legend Sir Ian McKellen and TV favourite Meera Syal will be among the presenters at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Still Frisch and incendiary

07.11.07
Max Frisch's The Arsonists is a thrilling classic but in this lethargic production the play never really catches fire, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Blackmail, greed, despair ... a tale for our times

15.10.07
Glengarry Glen Ross premiered in 1983, but appears more timely today, when both our main political parties bend over backwards to satisfy very big business, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Mocking a metamorphosis

28.09.07
Absurd and hilarious, black comedy Rhinocerous is an accomplished British send-up of Gallic pomposity and pedantry.... more

Macbeth in hell's kitchen

04.06.07
Rupert Goold's mesmerising kitchen-sink Macbeth's imaginative invention and capacity to generate shock, suspense and revulsion far exceeds Trevor Nunn's classic studio production in 1976.... more

Grimes eclipsed by glory of Venice

27.11.06
Three decades after his death, Britten's reputation as an operatic composer soars higher than ever as these productions of Peter Grimes and Death In Venice prove.... more


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