Reviews

A twenty-fifth anniversary is something to be celebrated. For most couples, it might be a candlelit dinner in a romantic restaurant. But, if you are Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh, and the twenty-fifth anniversary being celebrated is of one of your most successful musicals, then something a little bit bigger is called for. So, … Read more Review of The Phantom of the Opera at The Royal Albert Hall

The Kite Runner is a wonderful play about the history and culture, people and politics of Afghanistan. Based on Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel, Matthew Spangler’s adaptation for the stage somehow manages to capture the many layers of complexity that give the novel such heft and power. The play gives us a story about a father … Read more The Kite Runner at Richmond Theatre | Review

In the past couple of years, a spate of Terence Rattigan’s plays have been revived by drama schools and amateur theatre companies in the greater London area and further afield. I use the term ‘amateur’ quizzically as many of these low-scale undertakings embody the dignity of Rattigan’s intent more faithfully than big-budget productions in London’s … Read more Cause Célèbre by Terence Rattigan at Hampton Hill Theatre | Review