I haven’t reviewed for quite some time - not because I’ve fallen out of love with theatre, but because sometimes life just gets in the way. But I can still be found in the stalls, programme in hand and a glass of wine or gin...
It’s where Shakespeare debuted Twelfth Night, and fellow literary legend and author of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, studied law, but so spectacular is Middle Temple Hall that it doesn’t even need to mention these credentials to be considered a breathtaking venue; rather, its Elizabethan...
The festive season is finally upon us, the change in season heralded by smell of mince pies, the taste mulled wine, and the sound of pantomime emanating from almost every theatre. But this year, instead of spending December taking my normal dive headfirst into a...
When hit crime author Gily Jacoby ends up fighting the inevitable descent into writers' block, she has a reputation to maintain, desperate for The Bloody Life of Ponton to become another bestseller. But what if that inspiration comes at a cost? In Faustaff or the...
Welcome to Applehurst, a town so mundane it would make your journey to work look like a rollercoaster of emotion. With highlights including Mrs Someone from down the road suffering a chest infection, and Mr Someone Else confiding in Sister George about his deepest fears,...
Why that and not this? It’s one heck of a question, a question with infinite interpretations and infinite answers. You could ask me “why that and not this” at 9am on a Monday and I’d say something entirely different to whatever I’d come out with...
Sex. It’s generally considered a “dirty” word, even though the vast majority of us are only here today because of it. And despite the fact that most adults regularly - or at least sometimes - have sex, for centuries it’s been publicly suppressed and denied, a...
The first details have been released of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play based on an original story by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. An "epic theatrical event" presented in two parts, the story continues where Rowling's seventh book left off,...
Early 20th century Austria, and an eligible young man and woman from the upper echelons of Viennese society are looking for love. Far from the rigid etiquette and elaborate calligraphy that instantly spring to mind, the pair of delightfully silly individuals write of their disenchantment...
Last year, when In The Heights opened at the Southwark Playhouse to near unanimous critical acclaim, stars were flying around like they were going out of fashion, praise heaped so highly at the door of the production that it must have been difficult to get...