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Articles By Tom Birchenough

'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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King & Conqueror, BBC One review - not many kicks in 106...

In this strangely dreary recreation of 11th century history, it’s not just grim oop north, it’s grim everywhere. King & Conqueror...

Juniper Blood, Donmar Warehouse review - where ideas and ide...

Playwright Mike Bartlett is, like many writers, a chronicler of both contemporary manners and of the state of the nation. In his latest domestic...

Album: The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives

The Hives must be one of the most self-assured bands around – but not without good reason. Ever exuberant, all their tunes are short and sweet,...

BBC Proms: Faust, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Nelsons revie...

Does the orchestra that sways together play together? Quite apart from their (reliably gorgeous) sound, the tight-packed strings of the...

Elizabeth Alker: Everything We Do is Music review - Prokofie...

Composers and musicians explore acoustic...

Album: Benedicte Maurseth - Mirra

During the opening seconds of Mirra, an unusual sound leaps out – a grunting. It’s integral to a shifting aural pallete which also...

BBC Proms: Jansen, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mäkelä rev...

How often is an orchestral concert perfect in every texture, every instrumental entry, every phrase? Wednesday's Phiharmonia Prom struck sound-...