Rachel Halliburton

“The strength of Lester's performance is in the way he makes us feel the smouldering sadness beneath the verbal fireworks.”

“This adaptation by Nick Stafford in association with Handspring Puppet Company is – on so many levels – a tour de force, heightened by the performances of actors who hold their own against the stunning visuals.”

“In a virtuoso press night performance she slayed doubters like a vampire hunter administering a stake to the heart.”

“Chris Fisher’s stunning illusions prove the coup de grâce, challenging the pelvic floor as much as the mind.”

“But if you’re devoted to the spirit of F Scott Fitzgerald’s original, this will leave you with mixed feelings.”

“Clueless: The Musical can still stand up proudly in its overpriced stilettos.”

“But though The Score occasionally flares enjoyably to life, as we enter Lent season you’d be better off seeking out one of the many Bach Passion performances to get a sense of the man it depicts.”

“It’s impossible not to admire the consummate skill with which Murphy and Robertson have compressed almost a decade of fraught debate, giving each meeting a sharp dramatic trajectory that it must have lacked at the time. (In the programme, the late Prescott describes the process as ‘diplomacy by exhaustion’.”

“This is then – rather like Dr Strangelove with his rebellious prosthetic limbs – an evening of different parts, some functioning better than others.”

“In this joyful, sensitive interpretation they prove the enduring chemistry of their creative partnership.”

“Grandage’s production executes itself as nimbly as clockwork, delivering plenty of laughs along with the live corgis.”

“All the ingredients are there for a rip-roaring run which in good enough time will bring the rafters down.”