Review Theatre

Nightfall at The Bridge: ‘pastoral paralysis’

Grief, nostalgia and rural decay provide an inescapable atmosphere of paralysis in Barney Norris’s latest play set on a run-down, debt-ridden Hampshire farm. This is The Bridge’s third production since...

Sam Taylor

Category - Review

Exhibitions Review

All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain

Jim Crawley gets up close and personal with Tate Britain’s latest show, All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life. I’m not sure what to make of All Too Human, the summer blockbuster at Tate Britain. So let me start with the...

Jim Crawley

Review Theatre

An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre

The fifth show as part of the Vaudeville Theatre’s Oscar Wilde season, Carleigh Nicholls returns to examine this stylish production and how the father-relationship is intimately realised by a real-life pairing. “One’s past is what one...

Carleigh Nicholls

Review Theatre

Why is the Sky Blue? at the Southwark Playhouse

The result of a year’s worth of research, Abbey Wright’s new play Why is the Sky Blue explores the difficult subject of child pornography. Alberto Tondello considers this piece of work and how a controversial topic has been rendered for...

Alberto Tondello

Review Theatre

The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre

Marnie Howlett

Dance Review

DeNada Dance Theatre’s TORO: Beauty and the Bull at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells

DeNada Dance Theatre’s latest production, TORO: Beauty and the Bull, is a deliciously dark fairy tale-come-nightmare that explores queer sexualities and draws on fantasy, myth and camp culture. In his programme notes, DeNada co-founder and...

Christy Wensley