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Critics' Choice

Film

Andrew O'Hagan

quotePrecious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressingquote

Andrew O'Hagan Precious Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteIan McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignantquote

Henry Hitchings Waiting for Godot Theatre

Fiona Mountford

quoteSlight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding highquote

Fiona Mountford Enron

Reader reviews

Film

Simon, London

quoteUtterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treatquote

A Prophet Theatre

Ella, London

quoteThough 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hourquote

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Dave A, London

quoteWe went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiancequote

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If we’re so tolerant why is gay-bashing on the up?

02.02.10

Tom Ford's A Single Man shows us repressed gay America of the Sixties - not as far away from Britain of today as we'd like to believe

My part may be over but theatre goes from strength to strength

17.04.09

As he makes his exit after almost 18 years at the Standard, our theatre critic calls for the London stage to be given the bright future it so richly...
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Make a date with the Calendar Girls

15.04.09

Calendar Girls is a chance to enjoy displays of prudery, coyness and vulgarity, a mixed cocktail of character-traits that remains forever English.

Dazzling display in Death and the King's Horseman

09.04.09

The extraordinary Death and the King’s Horseman, by Nobel prize‑winning Wole Soyinka, has never been seen in London until now.

A Little Night Music goes west

08.04.09

On transfer to the West End, A Little Night Music leaves Nicholas de Jongh far less than enraptured.

The Fever is lurid but unbelieveable

07.04.09

Wallace Shawn does not condemn the liberal rich, he renders them luridly unbelievable in The Fever.

War Horse is a National winner

06.04.09

War Horse canters into town with the confidence of a natural-born winner in this superb production by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.

Shocking secrets in Tusk, Tusk

02.04.09

After her precocious debut at 19, with the award-winning That Face, Polly Stenham's second play, Tusk Tusk, confirms a startling, theatrical promise.

Resound of the suburbs in Parlour Song

27.03.09

Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song duly delves into the vexed problem of marriages heading for the rocks.

Retreat into Greek tragedy with Dimetos

26.03.09

Douglas Hodge's emotionally fraught revival of Dimetos helps provide partial answers to questions that were raised in its 1976 premiere.

Dido without the fire

25.03.09

James Macdonald's production of Christopher Marlowe's unjustly neglected Dido, Queen of Carthage is anti-climatic.

Wild ride for Priscilla Queen Of The Desert

24.03.09

London has never played host to a musical pitched on a higher level of gayness and camp comedy than this ingenious adaptation of Priscilla Queen Of...
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Hunter's one-ape show in Kafka's Monkey

20.03.09

Shoulders hunched, knees jerked forward, one low-hanging hand contorted, Kathryn Hunter gazes at us with swivel-eyed interest in Kafka's Monkey.

Sex, drugs and frocks for de Sade

19.03.09

Few more weird or perverse straight plays than Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade can have hit the staid West End stage this century.

Writer's fatal attraction in The Last Cigarette

18.03.09

Nicholas de Jongh never realised there was a Felicity Kendal inside the late, lamented playwright Simon Gray, struggling to get out.

The art of cover-ups in Deep Cut

12.03.09

Deep Cut, a disturbing semi-documentary play by Philip Ralph serves as another jolting reminder of how well government ministers cover-up.

Over There documents young man's disillusion

09.03.09

Mark Ravenhill has hit upon an arresting dramatic conceit to convey complex ideas and emotions in Over There.

Dancing to escape destiny at Lughnasa

06.03.09

Brian Friel's 19-year-old memory play, Dancing At Lughnasa, is shot through with scenes of outstanding pathos and rueful humour.

A Miracle is compelling take on life in a flat land

05.03.09

What makes A Miracle so poignant and Bondian is the way the main characters struggle to improve their lives.

Pioneering spirit of Pitmen Painters

05.03.09

In the larger space of the Lyttelton, The Pitmen Painters comes across as a glorious, instant classic of early 21st-century theatre.

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