The Fever Chart is lost in the war zone
The Fever Chart is fine as far as it goes but frustratingly unlinked to what has preceded it. The final scene makes for a strained ending to an effortful evening... more | Add your review
The 3D is sparkling at times but flat and wonderless compared to Avatar
Alice In Wonderland
Theatre
This is a satisfying and intelligently conceived production. It’s fluent, very funny and at times dazzlingly well-acted
Private Lives
Restaurants
A swathe of west London will be swooning ... this is as good as pizza gets
Franco Manca
Who knew Kim Cattrall was such a sensational stage actress? And Matthew Macfadyen doesn't seem to be able to put a foot wrong
The Orange isn't just a 'swishy gastropub' but a clever combination of various pub/dining experiences all under one roof
Dizzee Rascal and Lily Allen, two giants of pop shared the stage for what was sure to be an incredible evening.

Sally Hughes has a fine line in blonde wholesomeness and a creamy voice in the lower registers as Doris Day in Adam Rolston's A Sentinemtal Journey... more | Add your review
The Fever Chart is fine as far as it goes but frustratingly unlinked to what has preceded it. The final scene makes for a strained ending to an effortful evening... more | Add your review
Circa has ditched the anarchic larks and goofy characters. Gone, too, are the sets and costumes, plus all the props and most of the kit. .. more | Add your review
It’s delightful to see the Unicorn launch its spring season headliner with such a visible spring in its step in The London Eye Mystery... more | Add your review
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After a slightly uncertain opening, Nicholas Hytner’s production of London Assurance is wickedly entertaining, skewering several kinds of pretentiousness... more | Add your review
Admirers of Phantom are likely to be disappointed with Love Never Dies, and there’s not enough here to entice a new generation of fans, says Henry Hitchings... more | Add your review
Born and raised in the Capital, Roger Rees gives us his advice on the best attractions in the Big Smoke...some of which are quite unexpected... more | Add your view
For a six-month period the Royal Court has taken over one of Elephant and Castle shopping centre's vacant units, as part of an initiative called Theatre Local.. more | Add your review
It’s hard not to rave about La Fille mal Gardée, especially with Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta in the lead roles... more | Add your review
Creator of the darkly funny sitcom Pulling, Dennis Kelly's new play, The Gods Weep, is, he tells Nick Curtis, based on King Lear and Akira Kurosawa’s epic version, Ran... more | Add your view
If only Alice Bell (2006) and Daniel Hit by a Train (2008) were as fine as The Festival at the Barbican... more | Add your review
Arthur Schnitzler’s Sweet Nothing is presented here in a nicely idiomatic new version by David Harrower... more | Add your review
It's little wonder that Margaret Hodge MP is on board as a participant in one of A Day at the Racists' post-show discussions... more | Add your review
Although it begins on an unexpectedly passive note, Private Lives is a satisfying and intelligently conceived production... more | Add your review
This may not be the King Lear we remember when we’re 90 but it’s a very well spent three and a half hours now... more | Add your review
Martin Lawrance is every inch Richard Alston’s pupil, sharing many of his teacher’s strengths and flaws. .. more | Add your review
This isn’t so much Shakespeare’s Henry V as a package of edited highlights, a cheeky remix at the Southwark Playhouse... more | Add your review
host Stories may prove a cult success but it’s not truly disturbing. In fact, it’s one big exercise in crafty misdirection... more | Add your review
This year’s Flamenco Festival closed with a gala, and if not exactly disappointing, parts of the 90-minute show underwhelmed. .. more | Add your review
The Dead School is a feast of madness — a carnival of quirks, part A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and part Daliesque foray into the backwoods of psychosis... more | Add your review
Somewhere in the middle of the flurry of short scenes that make up Two Women, Fiona Mountford realised she was watching something rare and cherishable... more | Add your review
The crypt of St Pancras Church is an admittedly atmospheric setting but everything else about Warnings is woeful... more | Add your review