Some of the shows I missed in 2018 — and some of the shows I loved.
Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 7)
Top ten of the week, but there are lots of dark theatres, too, in London at the moment.
Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c Feb 22)
Top ten of the week, with new addition for Simon McBurney’s phenomenal The Encounter.
Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c Feb15)
Top ten of the week, including a wonderful new play Nell Gwynn and a revelatory Uncle Vanya – both of which got five-star raves from me!
Diary of a Theatre Addict: Starring with a cast of 500 Supporting Actors, and Two Trips to Yorkshire (with a day in London inbetween)
You Me Bum Bum Train isn’t exactly a train journey, but it provided the ride of my life; I also made two separate train journeys to Yorkshire that provided musical and comic diversions of their own.
Hello/goodbye to Hello/Goodbye?
Today Lyn Gardner delivered one of her blistering one-star pans for Hello/Goodbye at Hampstead Theatre, which has newly transferred this week to the mainhouse after its earlier premiere downstairs in 2013. Dubbing it an “inoffensive but entirely pointless two-hour romcom”, she went on to say that Shaun Evans and Miranda Raison “have all the allure of two slightly defrosted chicken nuggets.