Till the Stars Come Down at the Haymarket: uproariously fun and profoundly moving 4/5 Bijan Sheibani’s production of Beth Steel’s play has lost none of its power as it returns to the West End Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025
The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review Richard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale with circus gaiety; and a young couple unravel beautifully in Bijan Sheibani’s latest The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024
The Cord review – daggers of judgment as a birth rocks a family Therapists will love this drama about neonatal strains with all its flashbacks to childhood battles. Shame the focus is all on the father, leaving the women looking like harpies The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2024
The week in theatre: Till the Stars Come Down; Othello; Plaza Suite – review Beth Steel’s battling Notts wedding guests are a treat; Ola Ince’s Met police Othello makes horrible sense; and Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a creaking Neil Simon revival The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024
Till the Stars Come Down review – your invitation to the wedding of the year Beth Steel’s new drama is dazzlingly performed and full of pain, joy and laughter in a deft production by Bijan Sheibani The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2024
Sons of the Prophet at Hampstead Theatre review: this queasy tragicomedy drags The characters are self-consciously quirky, the situations forced, the wit overdone Evening Standard · Dec 13, 2022