

A Little Bird Told Me
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Ibsen's The Wild Duck in a version by Simon Stone & Chris Ryan Barbican Theatre | London directed by Simon Stone At the heart of...


Livin' la Vida Loca
✮✮✮✮ Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange Ensemble Theatre | Sydney directed by Anna Crawford Health services are a crucial part of all...


b.21
✮✮✮ b.21 Balanchine | Hans van Manen | Martin Schläpfer Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Düsseldorf Dutch ballet legend Hans van Manen's long and...


You Really Got Me - You Really Did
✮✮✮✮✮ Ray Davies' Sunny Afternoon Harold Pinter Theatre | London book Joe Penhall directed by Edward Hall Even if musicals aren’t your...


Without Love There is No Nation
✮✮✮ Sue Smith's Kryptonite Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Geordie Brookman Through an international love story, Sue Smith’s...


Jigsawing Chekhov
✮ 1/2 Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya St.James Theatre | London directed by Russell Bolam It’s a bafflement. Not the updating of a...


Hades Hath No fury
✮✮ 1/2 Sophocles' Electra in a version by Frank McGuinness The Old Vic | London directed by Ian Rickson It’s the old luvvie’s refrain:...


Teaching Literary Genius
✮✮✮✮ Theresa Rebeck's Seminar Hampstead Theatre | London directed by Terry Johnson Shortly before last week's announcement of 2014's...


Freedom and Its Opposite
✮✮✮ 1/2 Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie Belvoir St Theatre | Sydney directed by Eamon Flack Tennessee Williams refers to The...


Beckett on Poppers
✮✮✮✮ Enda Walsh's Ballyturk National Theatre | London directed by Enda Walsh Ballyturk is an Irish town of Father Ted surrealness, so...