Paul’s Latest Theatre Reviews
Theatre review: Natalie Dormer in Anna Karenina at Chichester Festival Theatre
Natalie Dormer shines but Phillip Breen's adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina barely scratches the surface of Tolstoy's great novel ...
Review: Jack Lowden & Martin Freeman in The Fifth Step
Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman excel as a recovering alcoholic and his mentor in a cat and mouse game of ...
Theatre Review: Stereophonic at the Duke Of York’s
Paul Seven Lewis reviews a long but rewarding play about the creative process of making a rock album and its ...
Theatre review: Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren’s Profession
Mother Daughter Clash is Perfect Harmony Garrick Theatre ⭑⭑⭑⭑ What is Mrs Warren’s Profession? Well, she’s a highly successful owner ...
Theatre review: Conversations After Sex
More is revealed than bodies when a grieving woman embarks on a series of casual sexual encounters in this fine ...
Theatre review: The Government Inspector at Chichester
Gogol’s classic satires about government corruption becomes a knockabout comedy in the hands of former RSC director Gregory Doran ...
Theatre review: The Brightening Air with Chris O’Dowd and Rosie Sheehy
There’s drama, comedy and outstanding in Conor McPherson’s Chekhovian play about crushed dreams ...
Theatre review: Much Ado About Nothing – RSC
TV stars Freema Agyeman and Nick Blood play Beatrice and Benedict in Michael Longhurst's football-themed production of the popular Shakespeare ...
Theatre review: Backstroke with Tamsin Greig & Celia Imrie – Donmar Warehouse
Anna Mackmin's debut play at the Donmar explores the complex relationship between a mother and daughter as it develops over ...
Theatre review: Unicorn with Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan & Erin Doherty
Mike Bartlett's comedy about a menage-a-trois is challenging and uplifting in a production where nothing distracts from the tremendous acting ...
Theatre Review – The Autobiography of a Cad – Watermill
A G MacDonell's 1930s satire about the self-centred, corrupt ruling class has echoes to this day. Paul Seven Lewis reviews ...
Theatre review: The Years at The Harold Pinter Theatre
Top class acting turns the life of an ordinary woman into an extraordinary stage play based on Annie Ernaux’s book ...
The Little Foxes at the Young Vic – review
Powerful acting from Anne-Marie Duff as greed tears a family apart in Lillian Hellman's classic play. The excellent cast includes ...
Theatre review – The Devil Wears Prada with Vanessa Williams – Dominion
It helps of course that The Devil Wears Prada has a book by Kate Wetherhead, music by Elton John, lyrics ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – The Musical – review
Jethro Compton has relocated F Scott Fitzgerald's short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to Cornwall in the 20th ...
Ncuti Gatwa in The Importance of Being Earnest- National Theatre
Oscar Wilde triumphs despite the National Theatre’s panto-style production, thanks to Ncuti Gatwa, Hugh Skinner and Sharon D Clarke doing ...
Steve Coogan in Dr Strangelove – Noel Coward Theatre – review
I don't know what's more spectacular, the production of Dr Strangelove at the Noel Coward Theatre or Steve Coogan's triumphant ...
Theatre review: The Cabinet Minister at The Menier
Adaptor Nancy Carroll, director Paul Foster, designer Janet Bird and a well chosen cast have cooked up into the comedy ...
Review: Oedipus with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville at Wyndham’s Theatre
Sophocles recognised the nature of the human condition, and director Robert Icke has laid it out again for us in ...
Coriolanus at the National Theatre – review
David Oyelowo provides us with a Coriolanus full of power and subtle feelings In the new National Theatre production ...