John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
Recent Reviews
Body Or Soul. Omnibus Theatre.
Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre’s residency of diverse productions and co-productions from the Chronic Insanity Theatre team moves towards its close with an [...]
Milked. White Bear Theatre.
Written in 2013 and first seen a decade ago in a production at the Soho Theatre, Simon Longman’s slice of countryside-set [...]
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 [...]