Okay. If you read no further, this is the takeaway. Phil Wilmott’s revival of Arthur Miller’s Finishing the Picture, currently at the Finborough Theatre, is a very good production of…
Sophie Treadwell’s masterful 1928 play Machinal has been revived at the Almeida as a play in ten episodes, each one segmented with a flash of searing lights and a title…
Leave Taking opens on a hazy, warm set into which Mai, an obeah (a Caribbean healing woman, played by Adjoa Andoh) saunters, cracks open a beer and lays down in…
So. Downstairs at the Pleasance has been open for four weeks now, and the programming shows no signs of getting less outrageous. For hot on the heels of Bismillah! (the…
It’s always a danger to go into a show with Very High Expectations but unfortunately with a show and brand like Shitfaced Shakespeare, it’s unavoidable. The Magnificent Bastards have spent…
Circusfest 2018 has got off to a cracking start – if you don’t believe me, check out our reviews of ‘Even When I Fall’ and ‘Hyena’. Happily, ‘Knot’ keeps up the…
Tori Allen-Martin who will play Chelsea in H.R.Haitch at the Union Theatre from 9th May spoke to us about the role, the history of the production and how she manages to…
Jane Austen, I’m sure we can all agree, is one of the all-time greats. A women ahead of her time, indulging both in scathing social commentary and in bonnets, and…
On the way out of the Hen and Chickens Theatre, I text Upper Circle’s editor. “Abducting Diana is Bat. Shit. Crazy,” I say, “I have no idea what I just…