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Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
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
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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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.
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.
08.04.09
On transfer to the West End, A Little Night Music leaves Nicholas de Jongh far less than enraptured.
07.04.09
Wallace Shawn does not condemn the liberal rich, he renders them luridly unbelievable in The Fever.
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.
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.
27.03.09
Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song duly delves into the vexed problem of marriages heading for the rocks.
26.03.09
Douglas Hodge's emotionally fraught revival of Dimetos helps provide partial answers to questions that were raised in its 1976 premiere.
25.03.09
James Macdonald's production of Christopher Marlowe's unjustly neglected Dido, Queen of Carthage is anti-climatic.
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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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.
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.
18.03.09
Nicholas de Jongh never realised there was a Felicity Kendal inside the late, lamented playwright Simon Gray, struggling to get out.
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.
09.03.09
Mark Ravenhill has hit upon an arresting dramatic conceit to convey complex ideas and emotions in Over There.
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.
05.03.09
What makes A Miracle so poignant and Bondian is the way the main characters struggle to improve their lives.
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.
