The Duchess of Malfi
It’s always exciting to visit a new theatre in London, and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is one of the most ambitious that the capital’s seen in years – quite probably since the opening of its stablemate, the Globe.
Browsing: The Culturist
2013 in Film
Tom Bangay takes a look back at the top ten films of 2013…
Manon at the Royal Opera House
Whilst it may hark back to those heady days of the Belle Époque, the moral of Massenet’s 1884 opera is as relevant today as it was to the nineteenth century Parisian society…
Daumier: Visions of Paris
As the RA’s critically-acclaimed celebration of the French visionary enters its final fortnight, Harry Chapman makes a late call to the exhibition the Evening Standard called “an aesthetic boxer’s blow to the heart”…
Wendy and Peter Pan at the RSC
“Following on from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s huge success with the musical Matilda, their flair for bringing the world of childhood imagination and wonder to life does not disappoint.”
The Duck House
“From the writers behind Have I Got News For You, this play was never going to pull any punches, and it doesn’t disappoint.” Rachel Fellows has a giggle at our MPs’ expenses…
Coriolanus
“Whatever way you manage to see this powerful production of a much-misunderstood play, with a genuine star performance at its dark heart, it will be worth it.”
House of Whipcord
Our resident obscure – the films, not the man – film man, Steve Thompson, stumbles…
Fortune’s Fool at The Old Vic
“I was delighted when I read that Lucy Bailey would be directing Fortune’s Fool; her production of The Beggar’s Opera in 2011 was one of the most side-splitting revivals I’ve ever seen…”
American Psycho: The Musical
“What on earth could a musical version of American Psycho be like, I wondered. Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 satirical novel is perhaps one of the funniest and most disturbing works of fiction there is…”
Carmen at the ROH
Carmen still has something to offer, 138 years on. Nick Hammond watches Bizet’s classic opera comique at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden…
RSC’s Richard II
Alex Larman witnesses the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Richard II, “…in a headline-grabbing piece of news, it features David Tennant, and his wig.”