Guest Five-Word Review of: Lady Julia (Hen and Chickens Theatre)

You can't improve on Strindberg.


Guest review by: Margaret Hardie

Guest Five-Word Review of: The Author (Jerwood Theatre)

Author-abuser alienates actors, audience.



Guest review by: Margaret Hardie

Five-Word Review of: Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)

Huge cast decorates spectacular set.

Five-Word Review of: Hamlet (Wyndham's Theatre)

Ensemble can't touch RSC's production.


(Starring Jude Law.)

Five-Word Review of: As You Like It (Shakespeare's Globe)

Magical production, as Shakespeare intended.

Five-Word Review of: The Comedy Store Players (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre)

Same as usual, only outside.

Guest Five-Word Review of: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre)

Heartfelt camp won me over.


Guest review by: Candace Kuss

Guest Five-Word Review of: Dido, Queen of Carthage (National Theatre)

Marlowe should've stuck to spying.


Guest review by: Annie Drynan

Five-Word Review of: A Little Night Music (Garrick Theatre)

Lively revival with moving performances.

(Directed by Trevor Nunn.)

Five-Word Review of: Twelfth Night (Wyndham's Theatre)

Jacobi is faultless as Malvolio.

(Starring Derek Jacobi.)

Five-Word Review of: The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company, Novello Theatre)

Satisfying resolution eludes raunchy modernization.

Guest Five-Word Review of: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company, Novello Theatre)

Acting overcomes "Mad Max" faeries.


Guest review by: Candace Kuss

Five-Word Review of: Showstopper (King's Head Theatre)

Musical improv - an audience pleaser.

Five-Word Review of: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company, Novello Theatre)

Tennant’s back(!) with justified hype.

(Starring Patrick Stewart, David Tennant.)

Five-Word Review of: Roaring Trade (Soho Theatre)

Resonates with a roaring "CRUNCH"!

Five-Word Review of: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company, Novello Theatre)

Bennett masters Hamlet. Tennant, who?


(Starring Patrick Stewart.)

Five-Word Review of: Ivanov (Wyndham's Theatre)

Engaging production of depressing material.

(Starring Kenneth Branagh.)

Five-Word Review of: Waste (Almeida Theatre)

Fine acting portraying English stuffiness.

Five-Word Review of: Timon of Athens (Shakespeare's Globe)

Shows credit crunch’s “shitty” aftermath.

Five-Word Review of: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare's Globe)

Delightful production of Elizabethan "sitcom".