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'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages of love and support

Friday, 14 November 2025 Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Globe review - Egypt in sign language, Rome in pale force

Monday, 19 August 2024 Read more...

The Hot Wing King, National Theatre review - high kitchen-stove comedy, with sides of drama

Saturday, 20 July 2024 Read more...

Crossing review - a richly human journey of discovery

Saturday, 20 July 2024 Read more...

Richard III, Shakespeare's Globe review - Michelle Terry riffs with punk bravado

Thursday, 23 May 2024 Read more...

Something in the Air, Jermyn Street Theatre review - evocative London mood music

Tuesday, 25 October 2022 Read more...

Meeting Gorbachev review - Werner Herzog offers a swansong tribute

Wednesday, 31 August 2022 Read more...

Mad House, Ambassadors Theatre review - David Harbour is magnificent in Theresa Rebeck's family drama

Monday, 27 June 2022 Read more...

Jitney, Old Vic review - a directorial delight

Saturday, 18 June 2022 Read more...

Lava, Soho Theatre review - silences, secrets and lies

Friday, 22 April 2022 Read more...

'Daddy' A Melodrama, Almeida Theatre review - production exuberance carries a new play of promise

Monday, 11 April 2022 Read more...

The Fever Syndrome, Hampstead Theatre review - ambitious family drama falls short

Wednesday, 06 April 2022 Read more...

Peggy For You, Hampstead Theatre review - comedic gold, and a splinter of ice, from Tamsin Greig

Tuesday, 21 December 2021 Read more...

Measure for Measure, Sam Wanamaker Theatre review - this problem play is a delight

Monday, 06 December 2021 Read more...

A Merchant of Venice, Playground Theatre review - Shylock supreme in a pared-down production

Thursday, 18 November 2021 Read more...

'Night, Mother, Hampstead Theatre review - despair in sotto-voce

Tuesday, 02 November 2021 Read more...

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I first came across Rachel Jones in 2021 at the Hayward Gallery’s painting show Mixing it Up: Painting Today. I was blown away by the...

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Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in their old age. These...

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There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new...

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When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which...