John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
Recent Reviews
Fresh Mountain Air. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Lana Del Rey’s ode to female unity and resilience, God Bless America And All the Beautiful Women In It, forms the [...]
Rodney Black: Who Cares? It’s Working. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
Rodney Black is a tacky small-time comedian with a venal manager and a taste for nasty misogynism. “I’m a huge supporter [...]
The Woods. Courtyard Theatre.
First produced in 1977, David Mamet’s narrative-starved folk-horror fairy tale about relationships, power struggles, and existential musings, The Woods, gets a [...]
The Invention of Love. Hampstead Theatre.
Close to thirty years after its National Theatre debut, Tom Stoppard’s dense play about poet and classical scholar A.E. Housman, The [...]
Arsenal and No Trace. Collective Theatre.
Collective Theatre N7 producers Luna Laurenti, Al Hawkins, and Alessa Lewis draw on Joseph Kesselring’s 1940s Broadway megahit Arsenic And Old [...]
The Legends of Them. Royal Court Theatre.
Close to a decade in the making, Sutara Gayle’s autobiographical The Legends of Them, co-created by director Jo McInnes and dramaturg [...]
Hansel and Gretel. Shakespeare’s Globe.
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s wintry, polemical take on The Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel had a brief, troubled run at the [...]
The Snow Queen. Theatre At The Tabard.
Theatre At The Tabard’s approach to Christmas productions—traditional, even conservative child-friendly fare that eschews panto—has served the venue well in recent [...]
Twelfth Night. National Youth Theatre.
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's tale of love, mistaken identity, ambition, and revelry, gets a decidedly Christmassy take in the National Youth Theatre’s [...]