Chair of Soho Theatre, Dame Heather Rabatts DBE says, “It’s been an incredible journey for Soho Theatre. We’re a small theatre, always managing to creatively punch above our weight, and…
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An Interrogation at Hampstead Theatre review: Rosie Sheehy is utterly compelling
by News Roomby News RoomBut this is a creditably taut debut work from him and another notch on Rosie Sheehy’s impressive CV, which already includes work for the RSC and National Theatre, David Mamet’s…
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Martin Freeman returns to London’s West End alongside Jack Lowden in alcoholism confessional
by News Roomby News RoomDavid Ireland’s new play The Fifth Step is a starry two-hander coming to @sohoplace
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Cymbeline at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review: bold telling of a Shakespeare deep cut
by News Roomby News RoomThis sharpens the fevered misogyny of the men who covet Innogen and despise Posthumus, and the agents of Imperial Rome who want to subjugate Cymbeline’s Britain. An ambient soundtrack of…
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In essence the plot is simple. A middle-aged white couple, Christopher and Lynette, enlist wealthy black neighbours Sihle and Bonolo, who they’ve hitherto largely ignored, to improve the “optics” of…
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Kyoto at @sohoplace review: this bravura show turns real life climate change talks into a gripping thriller
by News Roomby News RoomBillions star Stephen Kunken puts in a seductively charismatic central performance as a lawyer funded by Big Oil to derail consensus on limiting carbon emissions
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Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre review: this darker take on the classic musical is all killer no filler
by News Roomby News RoomThe score of Oliver! is all killer, no filler, from Food Glorious Food to Consider Yourself to I’d Do Anything. It’s boggling to think that the witty book, wildly diverse…
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The Maids at Jermyn Street Theatre review: an angry shout of a play
by News Roomby News RoomWe first see breathy, earthy Claire dressed in her mistress’s finery, bossing solemn, aggrieved Solange around and heaping opprobrium on her work, her clothes, and her rank breath. Crimp’s adaptation…
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Titanique at the Criterion Theatre review: get on board with this outrageous Celine Dion parody
by News Roomby News RoomToday, Blue’s production still has the air of a cabaret performance, with the cast, band and backing singers occupying a stepped set only lightly suggestive of nautical architecture. A giant,…
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The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane review: Sigourney Weaver in the West End is a thrill but the show fails to spark
by News Roomby News RoomJamie Lloyd’s production has an incantatory, dream-like quality but instead of lightning in a bottle it’s a damp squib