Theatre Review Archive
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84 Charing Cross Road (Richmond
Theatre) - Review
39 Steps
2002 - the year of the musical?
A
Almeida Theatre
- September 2005 to Spring 2006 season unveiled
Albery and Strand to be renamed
Coward & Novello (Story, Lizzie Guilfoyle)
And Then There Were None
- Agatha Christie back in West End (preview)
A Few Good Men - Theatre
Royal Haymarket (Rob Lowe preview)
Amajuba - Criterion
As You Desire Me - Kristin Scott
Thomas returns to West End
American Dream/Gringo - Union
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw) l Transfer
to New Wimbledon
The Alchemist heads to Pleasance
Theatre (Preview)
As You Like It - Wyndham's
(Sienna Miller for West End) l Buy
tickets
Arsenic & Old Lace - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Acorn Antiques
hits West End for six-weeks only (Preview)
A Life In The Theatre
- Joshua Jackson's West End debut l Buy
tickets
Anne of Green
Gables at Sadler's Wells
Annie: The Musical - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Aladdin - Sir Ian McKellen to
play Widow Twankey (Old Vic, preview)
Anna in the Tropics
- Hampstead Theatre (Preview)
As You Like It - Rose, Kingston-upoin-Thames
(Preview)
Almeida Season - 2004-2005 (preview,
Brighton Rock etc)
Amazonia - The Bridewell Theatre
(Review)
About Alice - Richmond Theatre
(review)
Amber Agar - An interview with
the Cheeky Maggot supremo
Age-Sex-Location, Riverside
Studios, Review
After Mrs Rochester (Richmond
Theatre) - Review
Gillian Anderson to return
in The Sweetest Thing in Baseball
Anything Goes - Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane (David Munro, Review)
Arms and the Man - Richmond Theatre
(Review)
A Woman of No Importance (Theatre
Royal Haymarket) - Review
After Mrs Rochester
(Duke of York's Theatre) - Review
A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum (Swanbank Music) - Review
A Night in the Desert
(Union Theatre) - Review
Ashes to Ashes/A Slight Ache
(Wimb Studio) - Preview
A Dolls House - Preview
Auntie and Me
Arsenic and Old Lace
Around the World in Eighty
Days - Richmond
Around the World in Eighty Days
- Battersea
A Night To Remember
An Audience With The Mafia
A Dangerous Woman
Anyone Can Whistle
Awake
The Apple Tree
Arrivederci Millwall
Anything Goes
Annie
A Buyer's Market
An Evening of Flanders and
Swann
A Different Way Home
Alice In Wonderland
B
Behind The Iron Mask
- Duchess Theatre (Preview)
Barnum - Union Theatre (Review, Emma
Whitelaw)
Bashment - Theatre Royal Stratford
East (Preview)
Broken Voices - Tristan
Bates Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Boogie Nights 2 - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
The Birthday Party - The
Duchess Theatre (Preview) l Buy
tickets
Bridewell Theatre - future secured
(2005)
Blood Wedding - Gael Garcia
Bernal heads to Almeida (Preview)
Battersea Arts Centre -
For One Week Only (Feb 2005)
Blue Man Group (Broadway
NY, Emma Whitelaw)
Bridewell Theatre forced to close
(December 2004)
Blithe Spirit - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Bat Boy - Shaftesbury Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Buried Child - Lyttleton
Theatre (Preview)
Brimstone and Treacle
- Bridewell Theatre (Review, Hannah Knowles)
Billy Elliot: The Musical
- special feature l New
cast members announced
Brighton Rock (Almeida
Theatre, preview)
Billy Elliot - stepping things up
for West End
The Baby and The Bathwater - Old
Red Lion Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Blood Brothers - Phoenix
Theatre (Review, Lizzie Guilfoyle)
Betrayal - Richmond Theatre (Review)
Bright Colours Only (Lyric
Hammersmith, Studio) - Review
Derren Brown heads for the
West End (Preview)
Bombay Dreams to close for
one year
Bridewell Theatre secures funding
for immediate future
Blood Brothers - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review)
Billy Elliot - Young hopefuls sought
The Beautiful and the Damned
- Lyric (Preview)
Brick Lane Music Hall
to re-open (December 03)
Betrayal - Duchess Theatre (Review)
Bedlamb return to Baron's Court
(Me and My Friend/Wanda's Visit) - Review
Bye Bye Birdie (Landor Theatre)
- Review
Brenda Bly Teen Detective (Bridewell
Theatre) - Review
Borrowed Scenes (Concordance)
- Brompton Cemetery preview
Bouncers (Richmond Theatre) - Review
The Ballad of Little
Jo (Bridewell Theatre) - Preview
Best Men (Hen and Chickens Theatre)
- Review
The Bomb-itty of Errors - Review
Bad Blood (Richmond Theatre) - Review
Boogie Nights (Richmond Theatre)
- Review
The Bible: The Complete
Word of God (abridged)
The Ballad of Norah's Ark
A night of many twists... but few jumps
at Wimbledon Studio
Lifeless production is a criminal
waste of two great talents
Holly is not just for Christmas!
Sadly for Joe and Blood Brothers,
these plays need a good ending
Unflinching boys' tale is practically
perfect
A superb comedy with a serious twist
in the tale
Blood Royal revue sketch becomes a drag
Sherwood's B stands for sheer brilliance
Phantom of the Ballet
Marlowe set to deliver a flawless
solo performance
It's criminal how these brothers
left me with the Blues
Oh my God - book now to catch
the complete word of the Bible
Few grey areas for The Biggleswades
C
Crystal Clear - Landor Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Countess - Criterion Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Carver - Arcola Theatre (The return
of William Gaskill)
The Canterbury Tales
to visit Southwark landmarks (Story)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to close
in September 2005
The Crucible - London
Oratory Arts Centre (Chelsea Players, review, Emma Whitelaw)
Chichester Festival - 2005 preview
Company - Bridewell Theatre (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
Critics' Circle/Theatregoers'
Choice awards 2005
Chicago - Is Brooke Shields
bound for the West End?
Margaret Cho - State
of Emergency - New Players (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Censor - Union Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Cats - New Wimbledon Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
Clouds - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
Christmas shows 2005 - A preview
of what's on for kids l And
more
Cosi - Bridewell Theatre (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
A Class Act - Landor Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Calculus - New End Theatre (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
Candida - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
Cloaca - Old Vic (Kevin Spacey,
preview)
The Colour of Poppies -
Jermyn Street Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Carousel - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, Davi Munro)
Cowardy Custard (Swanbank
Music), Putney Arts Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Conflicts of
Interest - Rosemary Branch Theatre (Review)
The Constant Wife (Richmond
Theatre, David Munro) - Review
Barbara Cook's Broadway
- Gielgud Theatre (Preview)
Catching Dust -
Tangled Feet (Pleasance and White Bear) - Review
Cheeky Maggot - An interview
with Amber Agar
Calico to close after one month in West
End
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Blair
and Biggins join cast
Crazy For You - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Cheeky Maggot Theatre
present fundraising evening (review, Emma Whitelaw)
Crave - Battersea Arts Centre (Preview)
Camarilla - Old Red Lion Theatre
(Review)
The Cream of London
Cabaret (RiverWalk Restaurant) - Summer 03 season
Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury Theatre)
- Paul Nelson's review
Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury Theatre)
- David Munro's review
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Wayne
Sleep to star
Candide (Richmond Theatre) -
Paul Nelson's verdict
Candide (Richmond Theatre) -
David Munro's verdict
Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury
Theatre) - Preview
Clive James & Pete Atkin:
Words and Music - Tour details
The Children's Hour
Claw
Coming Up For Air
Cued Up
Classics Across Centuries
Harsh lessons, supremely well
told, in The Children's Hour
Getting passionate about Orton's
Greenwich double bill
You won't 'Corpse' but you
may die laughing at Richmond
A theatrical Giant which is superbly
presented
One of the most charming love
stories I have ever witnessed
Chekhov's Cherry Orchard bears
a rich fruit at Wimbledon
A sexy and sinister take on the Big Brother
theme...
My love affair with Cabaret continues...
The reason why writers should
possess a paper shredder
Sadly, this is not a Goodyear
for La Cage Aux Folles
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Brendan Fraser)
- Review
D
A Dangerous Age - Drill
Hall (Preview)
The Devils - Union Theatre
(Review, Marcela Olivares)
Dancing in the
Dark - Croydon Clocktower (Review, David Munro)
Donmar Warehouse: Season
2005-06: Sir Ian McKellen (Preview)
Dancing in the Streets
- Cambridge Theatre (Motown Musical, preview)
Janie Dee Cabaret - Shaw
Theatre (Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber world prem)
Dear Mr Kennedy -
Hen and Chickens Theatre: Sarah Thomas interview (DM) l Review
Death of a Salesman - Lyric
Theatre (Preview)
The Days of Wine and Roses
- Donmar Warehouse (Preview)
The Dresser - Duke of York's
(Nicholas Lyndhurst joins Glover in West End)
A Doll's House - Greenwich
Playhouse (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Don Carlos heads to the Gielgud
(Preview)
Dinner - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
Death and the Maiden -
King's Head, preview
Dralion (Circque du Soleil)
returns to Royal Albert Hall (Preview)
Damages - Bush Theatre (Review, Emma
Whitelaw)
'Dead body' sought by London theatre
group
The Dice House, Arts Theatre (Preview)
Dinner, Wyndham's Theatre (Paul
Nelson's review)
Dinner, Wyndham's Theatre -
A second opinion
Dick Barton V, The
Excess of Evil, Warehuse Theatre, Croydon (Preview)
Dark Meaning Mouse (Finborough
Theatre) - Preview
Don't Dress for Dinner (Richmond
Theatre) - Review
Dangerous Liaisons (Pentameters
Theatre) - Review
Dangerous Liaisons (Pentameters
Theatre) - Preview
Dragula (Heaven) - Preview
Dr and Mrs Faustus
(Wimbledon Studio Theatre) - Preview
Dear Liar (Wimbledon Studio) -
Preview
Drill Hall - The Bed
Bug, Sarah Redmond, Boheme, etc
A Dangerous Woman
The Dance of Death
A Dangerous Woman
The Drill Hall unveils its line-up
for early 2003
Drill Hall
Drill Hall 2
Hats off to McKellen and de
la Tour, this is not to be missed!
Their Record Speaks for Them:
Edith Day
Abbot excels in the hilarious
Dick Whittington
A magical evening of cabaret
in Dulwich
In the presence of a star at
the Donmar
Season opener begins with a starburst
at Dulwich
Superb Dann let down by
her material
You will be mad to miss Kramer's
heartfelt Destiny
It's Swing Time for Dorothy Fields
in the West End
E
The Edcuation of
a Lap Dancer - Pleasance preview
Edinburgh Fringe 2005: Report
1 l Report 2 l Report
3 l
Billy Elliot - Victoria
Palace Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Epitaph for George
Dillon (Comedy Theatre) - Joseph Fiennes (Preview)
Elmina's Kitchen - Casualty
star heads to West End (Preview)
The Erotica Project
- Greenwich Playhouse (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Elephant Woman -
New Ambassadors (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Embedded - Riverside Studios
(Tim Robbins defends his play, story)
The Elephant Man - Union Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Everyman: An Immorality Play
- Riverside Studios (Review)
Edward's Presents - Union Theatre
(Preview)
The Edge of Darkness - Richmond
Theatre (review)
End of the Night - White
Bear (Kennington) - Preview
Edinburgh in focus - Luxury
Assortment (Black Sheep) - Preview
Edinburgh in focus - To Hal and
Back (Preview)
Edinburgh in focus - Soweto
Gospel Choir (Preview)
Edinburgh Festival 2003 - Highlights
preview, part two
Edinburgh Festival 2003 - Highlights
preview, part one
Earl Okin, Musical Genius and Sex
Symbol (Wimb Studio) - Preview
Early Morning
Edinburgh favourites to feature
at Riverside Studios
F
Framed - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
Georges Feydeau,
Greenwich Playhouse (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Four Nights in Knaresborough
- Riverside Studios (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Fighter - Actor's Church,
Covent Garden (Preview)
The Far Pavilions heads
to West End (Preview) l Buy
tickets
Fame: The Musical - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Family Snaps, New Wimbledon
Studio Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Faliraki - Lyric Studio
Hammersmith (Review, David Munro)
Four Ladders, Seven
Brothers and a Couple of Brooms - Oh!Art Centre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Footloose - New Wimbledon Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Fuddy Mears to close after
two weeks in West End
The Full Monty - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Full Circle - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Joan Collins, review, David Munro)
The Flats - Chelsea Theatre (Preview)
Follow My Leader - Hampstead
Theatre (Preview)
The False Servant (National
Theatre) - Preview, Rampling's UK debut
Feast - Chelsea Theatre (Preview)
Finborough Theatre - Writers-in-Residence
Season (2003) (Preview)
Forgotten Voices from
the Great War (Pleasance) - Review
Fatale - Bridewell Theatre (Review)
The Fair Maid of the West (Pleasance)
- Review
Fascinating Aida - One Last
Flutter (Richmond) - Review
Fragrant - Preview
Footloose The Musical headed for
West End?
The Finborough - Looking
ahead (until August '03)
The Finborough prepares to
re-open!
The Fulham Jesus
Raise a glass as the Finborough
prepares to re-open!
The Fulham Jesus proves too much
of a cross to bear
An emotionally-packed short play
on the futility of war
West End favourite to find Fame at Aldwych Theatre
One of the West End's bare necessities
It would be a Folly to miss this!
Wow! These Five Ladies are real stunners!
A terrific way to spend
two hours in the theatre
G
Glorious - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
The Government Inspector
(Chichester Festival review, David Munro)
Guys & Dolls -
Piccadilly Theatre (Review, Jack Foley)
Gardening Leave - Union
Theatre preview
The Genius of Ray
Charles - Theatre Royal Haymarket (Preview l Tickets)
The Gruffalo - Islington,
Greenwich and Richmond (Preview)
The Girl With Red Hair
- Hampstead Theatre
Going Straight - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Grand Hotel - Donmar
Warehouse (Preview & history)
The Gingerbread Lady - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro
The Government Inspector
- Union Theatre (review, Emma Whitelaw)
Grease - New Wimbledon Theatre
(Review)
Gone to Earth (Shared Experience)
- Lyric Hammersmith
Sir John Gielgud centenary celebrations
Ricky Gervais talks Politics
in West End (Garrick)
Shakespeare's Globe Summer season
2004
George Gershwin Alone
- Duchess Theatre, review
Shakespeare's Globe coming to Hampton
Court (Summer 04)
Grimms 2003 (horla) - Greenwich
Playhouse (Preview)
Golden Boy (Greenwhich Theatre)
- Review
Gerald Scarfe -
An Audience With.. preview
Get A Life! Get a Life Coach!
Horla works some more Grimms magic for
a fantastical evening
All my prayers answered with Godspell
Good Olde Daze, great new night!
Halcion Daze
H
How To Succeed In Business
Without Really Trying - Chichester (David Munro, review)
Hair - Gate Theatre (Preview)
The Heiress of the
Cane Fields - Greenwich Playhouse (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Hamlet - Cockpit Theatre (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
Home Place - Tom Courtenay
back at The Comedy Theatre (Preview)
Hedda Gabler - Almeida preview
Hecuba - Vanessa Redgrave heads
for RSC revival (preview)
Have A Nice Life - Union
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
High Society, Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Hecuba - Donmar Warehouse
Hardcore - Pleasance Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Henry IV - Donmar (Preview)
The Hurricane - Arts Theatre
(Review)
The Holy Terror (Richmond Theatre)
- Review
Hackney Empire re-opens - feature
Hello You (Riverside Studios)
- Review
The Happiness Compartment
(Greenwich Playhouse) - Preview
The Hotel in Amsterdam
(Donmar Warehouse) - Preview
How The Other Half
Loves - Richmond Theatre (Review)
Hearts, Heaven and Hard Words
(Gay Pride season, Jermyn Street)
Hamlet - Greenwich Park (Preview)
Have A Nice Life (Plesance
Theatre) - Preview
A Hip-hop Story (Wimb Studio)
- Preview
Hic! - Wimbledon Studio Theatre preview
Have A Nice Life - Preview
Head Games
Head Games exposed at Oval
House
The Haunters makes for a seriously
creepy evening
Never mind a life, what about getting
a gag or two?
Harvey's terrific performance is a real
Cracker!
Have we got Muse for you... it's
flawed but worthy!
I
I Am My Own Wife - Broadway
hit bound for West End
The Improvisers - Richmond Theatre
(review, David Munro)
Immodesty Blaize
and Walter's Burlesque
- Arts Theatre (Preview)
Importance
of Being Earnest - Barbican (Preview)
If Destroyed True -
Menier Chocolate Factory (Preview)
The Importance of
Being Earnest - Richmond (Review)
Identity Panic - Greenwich
Playhouse (Preview)
I Have Before Me a Remarkable
Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda
(Finborough Theatre) - Review
Ines de Castro (Greenwich Playhouse)
- Review
I Have Before Me
a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda
(Finborough Theatre) - Preview
It all boils down to a supreme evening
for Boily
Keyes stages an astonishing
translation
J
Julius Caesar - Lyric Hammersmith
(Review, David Munro)
Just Desserts - Richmond Theatre
(review, David Munro)
Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Richmond Theatre 2005 (Review, David Munro)
Etta Jenks - The Finborough (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
Journey's End - Duke of
York (Review, Emma Whitelaw) - 10 Reasons to see the play
Jekyll and Hyde - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Journey's End - Richmond
Theatre (Tour review, David Munro)
Journey's End, Playhouse
new cast [Aug 2004] (Review, David Munro)
Journey's End, Playhouse
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Just So, Chichester Festival
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
- New Wimbledon (Review, David Munro)
Jarman Garden (Riverside
Studios) - Review
Journey's End - Comedy Theatre
(review, Jack Foley)
Jerkbeast at The Foundry
- Review
Jailhouse Rock - Piccadilly
Theatre (Preview)
Jerry Springer, The Opera
- The Cambridge Theatre (Review)
John Bull's Other
Island (Tricycle Theatre) - Review
Jocks Away - A taste of Edinburgh
without the travel expense!
Jack Pleasure
An evening with Jack is a genuine
Pleasure
Long may cabaret reign and may we have
Miss Soper back, please?
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, Jack ain't
much fun!
K
King Lear - Chichester Festival
2005 (Review, David Munro)
The Kindness of Strangers
- Warehouse Theatre (Preview)
Kangaroo Valley heads up
Southwark Playhouse season
Kevin Spacey appointed director
of Old Vic
Kitchen Skink
L
Little Women - The
Musical (West End preview & CD review)
Frank Loesser - A tribute
to genius of Guys & Dolls creator
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar
and Grill - New Players preview
Lord Arthur Saville’s
Crime - Richmond Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Lord of the Rings musical
swaps London for Toronto (story)
Lovers From Hell - Oval
House (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Lady in the Van - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Little Women to head for
Duchess (Preview)
Little By Little -
Arts Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Lost Property - Pleasance
Theatre (Hannah Knowles, review)
Billy Liar - Richmond Thetare (Review,
David Munro)
Les Miserables - Queens Theatre
(Review, Lizzie Guilfoyle)
London Suite - Richmond Theatre
(review, David Munro)
Little By Little -
Arts Theatre (Preview)
Liberace's Suit - Jermyn
Street Theatre (Review)
Lyric Hammersmith - Neil
Bartlett (artistic director) resigns, 2004
Love of a Good Man - Union
Theatre (Review)
Lyric Hammersmith - New season
(February to June 2004)
Les Miserables to move to
Queen's Theatre
The Lisbon Traviata
- King's Head Theatre (Islington) - Review
Lear's Daughters (Yellow
Earth) - Oval House Theatre (Review)
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Richmond Theatre (Review)
Luxury Assortment (Black
Sheep) - Edinburgh preview
Little Baby Nothing (The
Bush Theatre) - Preview
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar
& Grill - Warehouse
Theatre preview
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar
& Grill - Union Theatre review
The Laramie Project
And for his next trick, Durham must
return to Wimbledon!
Their Record Speaks for Themselves:
Gertrude Lawrence
Lessack and Mercer - too marvellous
for words...
The Lodger has found a fond room in
my head!
An intriguing and satisfying
night out... after George
Richly symbolic, The Lord of
the Flies is brilliant
A Fair day for McCutcheon as Phantom
proves an audience favourite
Thompson's tale makes for a truly magnetic
couple of hours at Wimbledon
Sadly, this is not a Goodyear
for La Cage Aux Folles
Little women deliver big performances
M
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
- Jerwood Theatre Downstairs (Preview)
The Musical Medium - Landor
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
A Man For All Seasons
West End-bound (Martin Shaw, preview)
Miss Julie - Greenwich Playhouse
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Man And Boy - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro) l West End
Misconceptions - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Murderous Instincts
- Savoy Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw) l Close
Mandragora King of
India, Clocktower Croydon (Review, David Munro)
Master and Margarita
- Lyric Hammersmith (Review, David Munro)
Master and Margarita - Chichester
Festival Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Measure for Measure
- Shakespeare's Globe (Review, Oli Burley)
Matches for Monkeys - Chelsea
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Ministry of Pleasure - The
Latchmere Theatre (Emma Whitelaw, review)
Much Ado About Nothing
(Shakespeare's Globe, Oli Burley review)
My Boy Jack (Richmond Theatre,
David Munro) - Review
Ministry of Pleasure (Latchmere)
- Preview
Master and Margarita (Lyric,
Hammersmith) - Preview
Monster II (Dylan Moran in
West End) - Review
Mixed Feelings - Richmond Theatre
(Review)
The Merry Widow (New Wimbledon)
- Review
M.A.D. - Bush Theatre (Review)
The Marquise - Richmond Theatre (Review)
Mum's The Word - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review)
Majnoun, Riverside Studios,
Preview
My Sister Sadie, Scarborough
(Review) - headed for the West End?
Mrs Ruskin - Warehouse Theatre,
review
A Midsummer Night's Diva! - Lowdown
at The Albany review
Money To Burn (The Venue, W1)
- Preview
Masks (Oval House) - Review
Marry Me A Little (Landor
Theatre) - David Munro verdict
Marry Me A Little (Landor Theatre)
- Paul Nelson review
A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Comedy Theatre, W1) - Review
Mrs Warren's Profession
(Twiggy) - Richmond Theatre, review
Mr Elliott (Chelsea Theatre)
- Review
Modern Man - New End (Preview
June 24 - July 26)
Mr Elliott (Chelsea Theatre)
- Preview
The Marriage of Figaro - Review
Mary Ellis
My Fair Lady
The Mysteries -
Richmond Theatre review
My Brilliant Divorce
Their Record Speaks for
Them: Jessie Matthews
Professor Higgins and co make
a welcome West End return
Mrs Warren's Profession
- West End review (Paul Nelson)
Exposing the idle rich for what they are...
in fine style!
Why Monsieur, this is the funniest
play I have seen in years!
Man oh man, this is an evening of constant
delight
Mates has found a friend in me!
An evening of gay abandon
which looks set to run
Adolescent wedding tale fails to ring
true for its mature cast
Crumbs! This is a mad, meaty
romance
Less than Wild about Michael and
his evening
N
Night of 1,000 Voices
- Royal Albert Hall preview
National Anthems - Old
Vic (Review, Jack Foley)
Not About Heroes -
Barons Court Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The National Theatre - 2005 season
announced
Notes From New York - November
finale for popular event
National Youth Theatre - taking
Shakespeare back to his roots
Paul Nelson - The Memorial Service
(June 2004)
Jeremy Northam heads for
the Donmar Warehouse Summer season (2004)
Notes From New York -
Donmar Warehouse review (March 7, 2004)
Young: Uncensored - National
Youth Theatre 2004 Season Launch
Matthew Bourne's The Nutcracker
- New Wimbledon Theatre, review
Paul Nelson - An obituary and tribute
National Youth
Theatre presents.... (Lyric Hammersmith)
Natural Inclinations give
rise to a terrific evening
This particular milch cow has been
milked dry by Morley
All's Weill at the Arcola for this
musical tribute
O
Oedipus heads to Baron's
Court
Orange Tree Theatre (Richmond)
- Autumn 2005 preview
Old Vic Theatre - 24 Hour
Plays (2005 fundraiser)
On Cieling - Nigel Planer comedy bound
for West End (Preview)
Olivier Awards winners 2005 (Producers/Mary
Poppins)
On The Town - Adam Garcia
heads for The Coliseum in 2005
Eugene Onegin - New End Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest - Gielgud Theatre (Review, Jack Foley) l Slater
extends to 2005
Outside Edge - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Out Of This World - Chichester
Festival (Second opinion review, DM)
Out of This World - Chichester
Festival Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Oleanna - Garrick Theatre (Review, Jack
Foley)
RSC's Othello to head to Trafalgar
Studios
Oliver Twist - Lyric Hammersmith
(Review)
Olivier Award winners 2004
(Kelly/Jerry Springer)
Onefourseven - Oval House
(preview)
On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall)
- Review
Office Suite (Richmond Theatre)
- Review
Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre
Trust Award 2003
Of Mice and Men (Richmond Theatre)
- Review
Once Upon A Mattress (Landor)
- Preview
Office Games - Preview
Our Song - Review
Olivier Awards
Oh! What A Night
Our Song
Oh! What A Night indeed - and not
one I'd wish to repeat!
Sam Mendes the toast of the West
End at Olivier Awards
Conti gives a star performance
- but is it Barrymore's?
A Fayre night for A Lady as Phantom
proves an audience favourite
This should have the West End
looking Over Its Shoulder
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Pericles, Prince of
Tyre - Shakespeare's Globe (Review, Oli Burley)
The Philadelphia Story
- Old Vic (Review, David Munro)
The Postman Always
Rings Twice - Playhouse Theatre (Val Kilmer)
Pericles - Shakeaspeare's
Globe preview
Paint Over - Blue Elephant
Theatre (Preview)
Mary Poppins - Prince
Edward Theatre (Review, David Munro) l Tickets
Pyrenees - Menier Chocolate
Factory (Preview)
The Philadelphia Story
- Old Vic (Preview)
Party Piece - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Pippin - Union Theatre (Review, Emma
Whitelaw)
The Producers - Drury Lane
Theatre (Review, David Munro) l John
Gordon Sinclair to replace Lee Evans
The Producers - Richard
Dreyfuss pulls out/Nathan Lane in
Puppetry of the Penis
- Apollo Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Pinafore Swing - Richmond Theatre
(review, David Munro)
Purlie - Bridewell Theatre, Review
The Phantom of the Opera - Her Majesty's
(review, Lizzie Guilfoyle)
The Piranha Lounge - Lyric
Hammersmith (Review, David Munro)
The Passion revival to mark
Bridewell's tenth anniversary
The Play What I Wrote (New
Wimbledon Theatre) - Review
The Pickled King, Riverside
Studios (Preview)
The Price (Apollo Theatre) -
Review
Peter Pan/Pirates of Penzance
(Savoy Theatre) - Xmas preview
Postcards from Maupassant
- Old Red Lion Theatre preview
Paper Flowers - Greenwich
Playhouse (Preview)
Pacific Overtures (Donmar
Warehouse) - Preview
The Playing Fields
Portraits in Song
Excellent performances and some
sublime direction at Wimbledon
Bitter Fruit harvests an intelligent
look at the Israeli conflict
Unlike its title, this Middle East tale
is devoid of Passion
These Pirates look set to steal
audiences' hearts... and voices
A round trip through some musical
classics - Ports of Call
Bringing you
some winter sunshine!
The only accessible place to see Music
Hall
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Quest: The Legend of the Green
Knight - Clapham Common (Review)
Queer Counsel - Warehouse
Theatre Croydon (Review, David Munro)
An astounding piece of direction
at Union Theatre
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The Real Thing - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Rookery Nook - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Joan Rivers - Before The
Doctor Pulls The Plug Tour (Oct 05 preview)
Richard II - Kevin Spacey takes
on Shakespeare (Old Vic, preview)
Rebecca - Richmond Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
Riverdance - Coming back
to Hammersmith for the final time?
Round The Horne - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Roast Beef - Riverside Studios
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare's
Globe, Oli Burley) Review
Risk Everything - Old
Red Lion (Review)
Vanessa Redgrave to return
to RSC
The Rat Pack: Live From Las
Vegas (Strand Theatre, Jack Foley) - Review l Buy
tickets
Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre)
- Review
Random Actors - Preview
Riverside Studios joins the anti-war
brigade
2002 - the year of the musical?
Romeo and Juliet told in a raw, hip-hop
style
Planet delirium?
Oh Romeo, Romeo, where art thou quality?
Spend a night with the Bard
Rent proves a real scorcher
A none too happy family affair
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Snow Dragon heads to Soho Theatre
The Scarlett Letter - Chichester
Review (2005) (David Munro)
The Seagull - Greenwich
Playhouse (Review, MG Olivares)
Sunday in the Park
with George - Menier Chocolate Factory (Preview)
Six Pictures of Lee
Miller - Chichester Festival 2005 (Review, David Munro)
Edward Scissorhands
at Sadler's Wells for Christmas (preview)
Siddharta Becomes The Buddha
- Union Theatre (Preview)
Scrooge - London Palladium
(Tommy Steele, preview)
Some Girls - Gielgud Theatre
(David Schwimmer( (Review, Jack Foley)
Scapino or The Trickster - Chichester
2005 (Review, David Munro)
SEDOS: Shakespeare in the
City l Centenary celebrations
Sunay’ha
(Invitation) - Oxford House (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Something Wicked This
Way Comes (Derren Brown) - Cambridge preview
Mary Stuart - Donmar Warehouse
preview
Josephine Singer - Diorama
preview
Some Girls Are
Bigger Than Others - Lyric Hammersmith (Preview)
The Settling Dust - Union
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Sweet Bird of Youth - Christian
Slater to return to West End?
Some Girls - Gielgud Theatre
(Schwimmer heads for West End, preview) l Female
cast announced
Shakespeare's Globe
- 2005 season preview (Oli Burley)
Stepping Out - Richmond Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
Maria Stuart - Union Theatre (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
Season's Greetings - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Simply Heavenly - Trafalgar
Studios (Review, David Munro)
The Soldier's Tale - Jeremy
Irons heads for Old Vic for one night
Sweeney Todd - New Ambassadors
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
The Snowman to return to The
Peacock - Preview
Seven Screams at Sea
- Theatro Technis (Review, David Munro)
Snoopy: The Musical! - New Players
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Seven Doors - Chichester Festival
(Review, David Munro)
Solid Gold Cadillac heads
for West End - Preview
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs (Lily Savage, panto preview)
Swan Lake returns
to Sadler's Wells (Preview)
Songs My Mother Taught
Me (Preview) - Savoy
Kevin Spacey unveils Old Vic
first season as artistic director
Suddenly Last Summer
- Richmond Theatre (Review)
Saturday Night Fever
to return to West End
The Shape Shifter (Review)
Kevin Spacey seeks leading
lady for Philadelphia Story
Shining City - Conor
McPherson's ghostly West End return
The Shape of Things -
New Ambassadors (Alicia Witt, Preview)
Saturday Night Fever -
New Wimbledon Theatre (Review)
Suddenly Last Summer
(Albery) - Rigg heads for West End
Shrek: The Musical part of new
Sam Mendes line-up
Shaking Spears for Shakespeare
(King's Head Theatre) - Review
Singin' In The Rain - Richmond
Theatre (Review)
Still Painful - Pleasance
Theatre (Review)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Richmond Theatre (Review)
Static - Union Theatre (Review)
Squint - The Chelsea Theatre
(review)
Shaking Spears for Shakespeare
(Greenwich Playhouse) - Review
Soweto Gospel Choir - Edinburgh
preview and tour
Swanbank Music (Putney)
present A Funny Thing Happened on the Way...
Sexual Perversity in
Chicago (Comedy Theatre) - Review
Something Cloudy,
Something Clear (Finborough) - Review
South (Vayu Naidu Company national
tour) - Preview
Something Cloudy, Something
Clear (The Finborough) - Preview
The Streets (Wimbledon Studio Theatre)
- Preview
Simply Heavenly
Snoopy The Musical
Stones in His Pockets
Classy cast works wonders with Peanuts
in terms of plot!
Kevin Spacey appointed director
of Old Vic
Great play, nice performances
- shame it was inaudible
Goldstein lights up
Larry's Room with self-critical tales of men
Sadly for Joe and Blood Brothers,
these plays need a good ending
A tour-de-force which makes
for an extraordinary evening
Something worth Stomping about at the Vaudeville
A fine trilogy, each one a gem
in its own right
A Singing Group in fine voice...
if a little repetitive
So Schwartz it all about? Love and
sex...
Superficial Skin Deep only saved by
its stars
Robinson family belong on a different
planet!
Smelling A Rat - revisited
Lorna's Spring Collection is as changing
as the seasons
Leigh's farcical comedy proves just
the tonic
Sorry! But I loved this Capra-esque
tale
A Soul-ful evening which I enjoyed
Waltz along and catch this collection
of Strauss
A must-see tale of SubUrbia at Wimbledon
Studio
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Twelfth Night - New Wimbledon
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Trafalgar Studios - Winter
Season 2005
Thalidomide! A Musical - Tour
preview
The Tempest - Shakespeare's
Globe (Review, Oli Burley, 2005)
Talking to Terrorists
- Royal Court Theatre (Preview)
Tin Tin heads for The Barbican
(December 2005, preview)
Tricycle Theatre unveils Summer
Season 2005
This Is How It Goes - Donmar
Warehouse (Preview, Ben Chaplin)
Tick Tick Boom - Menier
Chocolate Factory (preview)
Telstar - New Ambassadors
review (Emma Whitelaw)
Theatro Technis - Heiner
Müller triple-bill (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Travelex £10 Season - Full
details
Theatre of Blood - Jim
Broadbent bound for West End (Preview)
Tara Arts appeals for Tsunami
Funds l Comics
line up at Apollo for tsunami relief
Terror 2004 - Union Theatre (Review,
Emma Whitelaw)
Turn of the Screw - New End
Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Talk About The Passion
- New End Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Translucent Frogs
Of Quuup!! - New Ambassadors (Review, Munro)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
posts closure notices
Taboo - New Wimbledon Theatre (Review,
David Munro)
The Trumpet Major (Bridewell
Theatre) - Review
The Timekeepers - New End Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Tell Me On A Sunday - New
Wimbledon (Review - Understudy delights)
Trip's Cinch
and Three More Sleepless Nights - The Lion & Unicorn Review
Taking Sides - Richmond Theatre
(Review)
Thoroughly Modern
Millie, Shaftesbury Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Tabloid Caligula and A
Road in Winter (Union Theatre) - Review
To Hal and Back - Preview
Tales From A Pier (Union)
- Review
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
- Southwark Playhouse Review
Tom Thumb (Wimb Studio & BAC)
- Preview
Tell Me On A Sunday
Theatres Against War (THAW)
True or Falsetto
Two Up is guilty of being an absolute classic
Culkin steals the show
as Lonergan's lost Youth returns...
Book now for a thoroughly enjoyable
trip
A talented cast lynched by their
author at the Lyric
A truly romantic tragedy really
well told
Talking Heads will set tongues wagging
An unlikely but captivating tale
at Shakespeare's Globe
NY youth with the gift of the gab...
and a lot more besides!
Young stars are the mane reason
for seeing this classic
Sharrock's Top Girls left us over the
moon!
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Union of Shorts: The Pub (2005)
- Union Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Unexpected Man - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
The Ushers - Etcetera Theatre (Review)
Union of Shorts VI: Unpretentious
Theatre (Union) - Preview 03
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Vent Peupliers - Wyndham's
Theatre (John Hurt, Ken Stott, etc, preview)
The Vegemite Tales -
Riverside Studios (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Virgin Territory:
Body Anonymous/Sid & Nancy/Empty Chair (Review, EW)
Visiting Mr Green - New End
Theatre (Preview)
Vagina Monologues - Sharon
Osbourne heads for West End
Vincent in Brixton - Richmond
Theatre (Review)
Pointing the finger of praise
at these Monologues...
This play is God's gift to women
- and they flaunt it!
Vagina Monologues - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
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Wait Until Dark - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Who Killed Mr Drum?
- Riverside Studios (Preview)
The Winter's Tale
- Shakespeare's Globe review (Oli Burley)
What The Butler Saw
- Hampstead Theatre (Preview)
The Winter's Tale - Richmond
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
When
Harry Met Sally - Richmond Theatre (Review, David Munro)
Wilde Tales - Southwark
Playhouse (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
The Witches - Wyndham's Theatre
(Review, Emma Whitelaw)
West End Theatres enjoy record-breaking
year (2004)
The Woman in White - Michael
Ball stands in for Crawford
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber causes West
End stir
The Woman in White - Palace
Theatre (Review, David Munro)
We Could Be Heroes
- Bridewell Theatre (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Oscar Wilde - Shaw Theatre (Review,
David Munro) l Show closes
Welcome Home, Landor Theatre
(Review, David Munro)
The Wild Party - Riverside
Studios (Review, Emma Whitelaw)
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- Duke of York's preview
When Harry Met Sally
to close
War Crimes for the
Home - oh!art Centre, at Oxford House (review, Emma Whitelaw)
Whistle Down The Wind
- New Wimbledon (review, David Munro)
We Happy Few (Gielgud Theatre)
- Preview
When Harry Met Sally -
Molly Ringwald/Michael Landes to step in
Whistling Psyche - Almeida
(Preview)
When Harry Met Sally
- Theatre Royal Haymarket (review, Jack Foley)
When The Night Begins
- Hampstead Theatre (Preview)
The Wine Tasters - Pleasance
review
The Wild Party - Union Theatre
(Review)
Wimbledon Theatre - A fresh
new start in 2004
Wait Until Dark West
End revival (Garrick) - Preview
The Women At War - A Centenary
Celebration (Finborough)
- Review
Elizabeth Welch - An obituary
W.C. - Blue Elephant preview
The Way of the World (Upstairs
at the Gatehouse) - Review
What Happened Last Night? (Paul Nelson
review)
What Happened Last night - Reader
Review
It's Harry's Destiny to amuse - and
that's the truth!
Make Wimbledon Studio Theatre one of
your Ports of Call
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Ba Humbug! Scrooge is back
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You Never Can Tell - Richmond
Theatre (review, David Munro)
Ying Tong - Goons head
for New Ambassadors (Preview)
Young Vic - Secures Lottery
funding for refurbishment work
Young Vic - Actor, Jude Law, supports
fundraising appeal
You Couldn't Make It Up
(New End) - Review
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Leigh Zimmerman heads
for Producers after Couch sessions...
Za Ji Chinese Acrobatic Spectacular
- Peacock Theatre (Preview)
Zadie's Shoes (Finborough Theatre)
- Preview
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