Ruth Gledhill

Ruth Gledhill, on Twitter @ruthiegledhill, contributes regularly with reviews for London and regional shows, as well as reporting on press launches. Ruth Gledhill has worked on The Times from 1987 to 2014. Before that she was a news reporter and feature writer on The Daily Mail. She wrote her first theatre review, Tennessee Williams 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', while serving indentures at The Birmingham Post & Mail. After leaving the Midlands in 1984 she decided to concentrate on news. She is delighted to be able to revive her love of writing about the stage as a critic for London Theatre. Public profile http://journalisted.com/ruth-gledhill

The Shawshank Redemption Edinbugh Fringe

October 19, 2014August 20, 2013 by Ruth Gledhill

Omid Djalili has to be one of the bravest and funniest actors alive in the country today. Before Shawshank, we saw him do one of his regular stand-up comedy nights where he was preparing his set for a forthcoming tour. We did not stop laughing throughout, yet it was clear from his appealing self-deprecation that … Read more

Review of A Doll’s House at the Duke of York’s Theatre

October 19, 2014August 15, 2013 by Ruth Gledhill

It is little surprise that 120 years after he wrote it, Henrik Ibsen still compels us to come in to his A Doll’s House and live the nightmare of Nora in particular, but also her husband Torvald and their friends. Only her two children, Jon and Ivar, safely sleeping by the start of the second … Read more

Review of The Sound of Music Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

October 19, 2014August 6, 2013 by Ruth Gledhill

Like so many children born in the 1950s, I grew up to a backdrop of the iconic Julie Andrews film. Our mother was obsessed by it. She had five of us already but augmented our number with foster kids to bring us up to the requisite seven. She dressed us in stripy curtains, put our … Read more