Talking Heads
I’ll come straight to the point; this new touring production of a trio of Alan…
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For Services Rendered
While the acknowledged master of the ‘well-made play’ Terence Rattigan has been having a deserved…
Bakkhai at the Almeida
Continuing the Almeida’s Greeks season, Ben Whishaw stars in a proficient albeit rather anti-climactic staging…
Three Days in the Country
It is a truth semi-universally acknowledged that Russian drama is tricky to stage for an…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Subtitled ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was…
The Red Lion
After cricket, there has been no sport about which there has been so much rubbish…
Heartbreak Hotel
The swinging 60s are dead. A dilapidated hotel waits at the end of a small…
Get Thee to the Greek: Oresteia at The Almeida
For the rest of the year, the Almeida is staging a season of Classical Greek…
The Beaux’ Stratagem
When the worst thing about a play is the name – and, let’s be fair,…
Hay Fever
Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, written when the playwright was just twenty-five and first performed in…
Temple
St Paul’s Cathedral, in all its glory, has stood tall through thick and thin, including…
High Society
As the last show of Kevin Spacey’s 11 year tenure as Artistic Director of The…