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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
06.11.09
What do you get if you combine corsets, cabaret and abstract dance routines? Architecting would be the answer
05.11.09
Shraddha has energy and some moments of real poetry, and, although at times soft, it feels faithfully contemporary.
03.11.09
Atiha Sen Gupta's first full-length play - What Fatima Did - is a brave and timely exploration of the faultlines in our multicultural society.
03.11.09
in Seize the Day Kwame Kwei-Armah turns his scrutiny to the question of race within the political sphere itself.
30.10.09
While it gets laughs, there's a persistent sense that Mrs Klein is cerebral rather than wise.
29.10.09
Although Pains of Youth's erotic charge has been extravagantly talked up, it is about as sexy as a cold hip bath.
23.10.09
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet is a fresh and rewarding piece, which suggests that Nick Payne is a writer to look out for.
22.10.09
Gregory Doran's production of Twelfth Night, which transfers to London in December, has enchanting moments.
21.10.09
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is amusing, affecting and decidedly old-fashioned.
16.10.09
Amid Endgame's remorseless asperity there’s poetry — given brilliant expression by director Simon McBurney.
14.10.09
In Life Is a Dream we are treated to a performance that combines lofty existential angst and poetic hyperbole by The Wire's Dominic West.
13.10.09
If Category B is a drama with few real surprises, that's because Roy Williams is taking aim at the tyranny of the inevitable.
08.10.09
Alistair McGowan's new play, Timing, which features two plays within the play, taking place either side of a piece of sound-proof glass.
07.10.09
A National Theatre should tackle national issues, and that is certainly what David Hare's new play - The Power of Yes - does.
02.10.09
Kevin Spacey's latest offering at the Old Vic - Inherit the Wind - is a revival of a 1950s play that dramatises the confrontation between science and...
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01.10.09
Matt Lucas delivers a performance that is complex and precisely gauged, albeit hyperbolic, in Prick Up Your Ears.
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.
29.09.09
Speaking in Tongues is a provoking comment on the strangled communication that occurs between men and women
28.09.09
Stephen Daldry reimagines An Inspector Calls as a darkly psychological drama complete with brooding string music and sepulchral woodwind
25.09.09
The RSC’s “Revolutions” programme is a theatrical exploration of Russia and the former Soviet Union.
