BIZARRE: 3 - What They Never Told You

Anne-Marie Duff is fascinatingly nasty in Lyndsey Turner’s uneven Little Foxes

3/5 Duff’s Regina is such a monster in this production that it’s hard to feel any kind of surprise or sympathy, as she manipulates and is manipulated in turn

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

Carlos Acosta's guide to Havana: dancing, the seawall of the Malecón and the Meliá Cohiba hotel

The legendary dancer shares the secrets to his home city of Havana, from streetside discos to the best restaurants

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024

Kiss Me, Kate review: A supremely silly evening of summer escapism

‘Line of Duty’ star Adrian Dunbar teams up with Broadway legend Stephanie J Block for another perfectly pitched Cole Porter revival at the Barbican

The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2024

Ulster American review – Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis perfectly awful in anarchic comedy

David Ireland’s explosive satire turns into farce as two buffoons parading as progressives team up with a dramatist played by Louisa Harland

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2023

‘I gasped when I read it’: Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American

The trio are about to fall out violently in the shocking yet hilarious play about misunderstandings over the Troubles and Brexit. They talk woke fever, big pharma and playing chimpanzees

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2023

Backstairs Billy review – anodyne comedy about the Queen Mother and her servant

Penelope Wilton plays the isolated royal and Luke Evans is her courtier in a light production that never gains much depth

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2023

The Time Traveller’s Wife review – eternal romance is a bumpy ride

Joss Stone and Dave Stewart’s strangely forgettable score does little to lift this musical but there are some wonderful set pieces

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2023

King Lear review – Kenneth Branagh’s fast and feverish tragedy

At two hours with no interval, the actor-director’s production hurtles past at such speed that the depths of the play are too rarely realised

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2023

Romeo & Juliet review – slow jams, Asda bags and trackie tops in a Manchester love story

Nicholai La Barrie’s production edits out some of Shakespeare’s characters, but amps up the modern-day relevance of this play about a divided community

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Penelope Skinner on her #MeToo play: ‘We focus on perpetrators. I wanted to explore the life that was lost’

Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James take centre stage in the playwright’s new drama Lyonesse, which explores power, abuse, and why things haven’t changed as much as people hoped

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023