Mature Times

“Hay Fever is well worth seeing.”

“Paddington The Musical is a super family friendly show.”

“The production is the least naturalistic, the least Chekhovian, I have seen.”

“It's a lot of drivel going nowhere and neither Jones, nor Cummings, nor Radcliffe has found a way of making it work.”

“Simon Evans' revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a fitting memorial tribute.”

“The production has bags of energy.”

“The production, which Rice describes as a love letter to theatre, matches the exuberance of the original novel and revels in its whimsicality, diversity, theatricality.”

“The great pity is that Mullarkey's play is so unfunny and such an apocalyptic comic strip bore.”

“The production is excellently acted by a fine ensemble, excellently directed by Ian Rickson and excellently designed by Rae Smith.”

“Thomas Eccleshare has written an amusing Sci-Fi satire on parental expectation and parental disappointment.”

“The updating is a mistake. It spoils the play.”

“The production is a slow burner and is never as harrowing as it ought to be.”

“Stoppard's dazzling intellectual and verbal jeu d'esprit is carried off by Tom Hollander and Freddie Fox, who play Henry Carr and Tristan Tzara respectively, with panache.”

“Buried Child is as strange as it always was but it is no longer as spooky and as thrilling and certainly not as hilarious as I remember it in the Gary Sinese production.”

“Reece Shearsmith as the devoted dresser is giving the best performance I have seen him give: camp, waspish, sad, lonely, bitter, and finally deeply moving.”

“Watching Polly Findlay’s dull production I kept thinking that Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure story can’t be as bad as this.”

“Simon Russell Beale, physically does not look right for Lear; but he is often impressive in his handling of the verse and especially in his depiction of dementia.”