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Heather Neill

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Heather Neill is a critic and theatre writer. She was Arts Editor of The Times Educational Supplement and has contributed features to The Times, Telegraph and theatre programmes. She reviews for The Stage, interviews for theatrevoice.com and has been a judge of the Offies and the Theatre Book Prize and an assessor for NT Connections.

Articles By Heather Neill

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe online review - a seasonal treat

Tuesday, 16 June 2020 Read more...

Nora: A Doll's House, Young Vic review - Ibsen diced, sliced and reinvented with poetic precision

Wednesday, 12 February 2020 Read more...

The Duchess of Malfi, Almeida Theatre review - a radically original perspective on Webster's tragedy

Wednesday, 11 December 2019 Read more...

A Christmas Carol, Old Vic Theatre review - the festive favourite mixes gloom with merriment

Thursday, 05 December 2019 Read more...

The Wind of Heaven, Finborough Theatre review - a welcome, if strange, Emlyn Williams rediscovery

Saturday, 30 November 2019 Read more...

The Taming of the Shrew, Barbican review - different but still problematic

Friday, 08 November 2019 Read more...

Ian McKellen On Stage, Harold Pinter Theatre review - a master relishes the joy of theatre

Thursday, 03 October 2019 Read more...

Blood Wedding, Young Vic review - inventive, poetic if over-stretched revival of Lorca's rural tragedy

Thursday, 26 September 2019 Read more...

A Doll's House, Lyric Hammersmith review - Ibsen tellingly transposed to colonial India

Thursday, 12 September 2019 Read more...

The Girl on the Train, Duke of York's Theatre review - boozy psycho-thriller rolls clunkily into town

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Lia Williams on the challenges of theatre

Sunday, 14 July 2019 Read more...

Death of a Salesman, Young Vic review - new-minted revival of a masterpiece

Friday, 10 May 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: playwright William Nicholson

Saturday, 27 April 2019 Read more...

Mary's Babies, Jermyn Street Theatre review - rollercoaster investigation of early fertility treatment

Tuesday, 26 March 2019 Read more...

Tartuffe, National Theatre review - morality-heavy version of the comedy classic

Friday, 22 February 2019 Read more...

Agnes Colander, Jermyn Street Theatre review - Naomi Frederick shines in 'new' Granville Barker

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 Read more...

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