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The Marriage of Figaro, ENO - review

06.10.11
This is a refreshing take on The Marriage of Figaro and the work is often arresting but there's an awful lot of bull... more

Dominic West is at his wired best in Butley

07.06.11
The lead role in Simon Gray's claustrophobic character study, Butley, is a gift, and Dominic West revels in it... more

The Knot of the Heart holds us riveted

18.03.11
The very first thing we see in The Knot of the Heart is the lead actress smoke heroin in the garden of her mother's comfortable Islington home... more

In world of seedy hustlers, House of Games' heroine misses a trick

17.09.10
Despite some strong points, Richard Bean's film-into-stage adaptation never feels quite right... more

Seeking solace in Serenading Louie

18.02.10
Director Simon Curtis isn’t afraid to let silence punctuate the increasingly fraught exchanges in Serenading Louie.... more

Yeah but no, for Prick Up Your Ears

01.10.09
Matt Lucas delivers a performance that is complex and precisely gauged, albeit hyperbolic, in Prick Up Your Ears.... more

Hello Dolly! makes a virtue of its limits

11.08.09
Hello Dolly! is wholesome, feelgood entertainment. Cynics and firebrands should look elsewhere for their fun.... more

Entertaining Mr Sloane is still seductive

02.02.09
Forty-five years after its London premiere, Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane comes up almost as fresh as a four‑leaf clover.... more

Crucial spirit is lacking in elegant tale of lost love

27.01.09
Ian McDiarmid’s misguided stage adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s poignant novel Be Near Me at the Donmar Warehouse is greatly diminished by cutting out crucial figures from the book.... more

Full marks for Chalk Garden

12.06.08
The Chalk Garden is a delectable revival of a forgotten comedy that deserves five stars, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

How sex shook up the empire

01.11.07
Cloud Nine makes glorious fun of Anglo-Saxon guilt about the naughtiness of erotic acts outside the sacred realms of marriage... more

Fit as a Fiddler

30.05.07
There are some simply great tunes and moving performances in this impeccable revival of musical favourite Fiddler on the Roof, says Fiona Mountford.... more

A winter's betrayal

21.02.07
Michael Grandage's revival of the great Ibsen drama, John Gabriel Borkman, is anaemic and miscast, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Rosamund plays it cool

19.10.06
Tennessee Williams's Summer And Smoke has been rediscovered on the London stage but actress Rosamund Pike is a little too serene for the role of a sexually desolate preacher's daughter.... more

Cattrall convinces in cryptic role

18.10.06
The prime reason for reviving David Mamet's distinctly minor play must be Kim Cattrall's eagerness to appear in it. Her decision to do so seems even stranger than The Cryptogram itself.... more

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