Goya: The Portraits
Witches covens, assassinations, a cannibalistic Saturn and glowering colossus – the paintings by Francisco de…
Browsing: The Culturist
The Father
The Father by French playwright Florian Zeller won the 2014 Molière award for France’s best…
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
I’m going to begin by admitting that Showstopper! is the most hilarious musical I’ve seen…
Farinelli and the King
Mark Rylance, hailed as one of the greatest stage actors of a generation, is an…
Hangmen
The playwright Martin McDonagh achieved enormous success at the turn of the millennium with a…
Mr Foote’s Other Leg
In 2012, the actor and biographer Ian Kelly published a brilliant account of the life…
Future Conditional
It was halfway through Future Conditional that I knew playwright Tamsin Oglesby must have gone…
Jane Eyre
This experimental new play at the Lyttleton Theatre, an adaptation of arguably the greatest Victorian…
Our Country’s Good
It’s always a difficult decision for an artistic director as to how long he or…
Oliver!
It’s impossible not to be charmed by the Watermill Theatre’s current production of Lionel Bart’s…
On Blackheath
Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? ‘On Blackheath’? What’s on Blackheath? Quite a bit, it turns out.…