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An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
20.11.09
As the dark nights beckon, it's oddly comforting to be transported to one of Earth’s coldest places with The Fahrenheit Twins.
16.11.09
The Orange Tree's revival of the bracing 1957 satire The Making of Moo, first performed at the Royal Court, is impressive.
13.11.09
Blood Brothers has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C.
11.11.09
From posh panto to burlesque, London is full of festive entertainment. Here are a dozen shows that should entice children — and adults — into the...
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10.11.09
Despite two lovely performances in Origin of the Species it's hard not to wish that Bryony Lavery had allowed her script to evolve a little more.
09.11.09
Robin French's script is not without its drawbacks but overall has the agreeable air of a little-visited outpost of a rambling museum in Gilbert Is...
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04.11.09
It's bad timing for This Much is True that it should come so soon after Kieron Barry’s impressively taut Stockwell.
04.11.09
The Great Extension is lacking the strength and motive that is needed for farce.
02.11.09
Less flap and greater clarity would make The Only Come At Night a truly visionary experience.
02.11.09
Matt Lucas having left the show Con O’Neill has taken over the role of Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears.
20.10.09
With Remembrance Day coming up, it's salutary to be offered a chance to reflect upon war's impact on the families of our armed forces in Motherland.
19.10.09
Confident ensemble singing and nifty accompaniment from just four pianos shoot sharp in Annie Get Your Gun.
16.10.09
It's heartening, at last, to see the financially precarious Rose in full bloom as a producing house with Bedroom Farce and Miss Julie.
15.10.09
While Comedians certainly shouldn’t be booed offstage now, it’s not going to be gifted any slots on primetime television.
13.10.09
Writer Lucy Kirkwood and director Lucy Morrison, lead us skilfully as they explore sex trafficking in It Felt Empty When the Heart Went At First But...
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12.10.09
There’s more stimulating food for thought — not to mention a number of bothersome acoustic dead spots — in Shooting Rats.
06.10.09
Standing alone at the end of the first half, John Barrowman positively decants emotion into that anthem of self-acceptance, I Am What I Am.
02.10.09
“Urinating nurses; mechanical dogs; fornicating, headless women; burning books and Adolf Hitler” reads the list on the publicity material. Yes, this...
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01.10.09
Money, a new show from boundary-pushing favourites Shunt, is inspired by Emile Zola's 1891 novel L’Argent.
30.09.09
The Authir is the sort of frustrating yet rewarding work that is stronger on ideas than their execution.
