Theatre Reviews With Paul Seven

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 ...

The King’s Speech – The Watermill Theatre – review

Generous measures of tension and empathy ★★★★ One of the best things about where I live is that my closest ...

Fiddler On The Roof – Open Air Theatre – Review

Revival brings fresh life to classic musical ★★★★★ Fiddler On The Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, and became the ...

Witness For The Prosecution at County Hall – review

It's a Mystery why Witness For The Prosecution is a Success. Here are the Clues ★★★ It’s been on since ...

Imelda Staunton in Hello, Dolly! – London Palladium – review

Hello, Dolly! has two redeeming features: it provides the opportunity to put on magnificent chorus numbers and a vehicle for ...

Mnemonic – Complicite – review

Memory and origins feature in stories of a trip across Europe searching for a lost father and a journey 5000 ...

Slave Play with Kit Harington – Noel Coward Theatre – Review

We’re promised-  sorry, trigger-warned- about racist language, sexual violence, and of course a naked Kit Harington. So, is Slave Play ...

Boys From The Blackstuff – review

James Graham, of Dear England fame, has written a stage version of Boys From The Blackstuff, the legendary TV series ...

Two Strangers (carry a cake across New York)

This is a review of a new British musical by Kit Buchan and Jim Barne with the feel of an ...
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