The Times UK
Jimmy Cliff : Getting his share now
A gritty Jamaican musical has come to the West End. We speak to the man who inspired it all
The Revenger’s Tragedy, London and Manchester - the Sunday Times review
The Revenger’s Tragedy is a sow’s ear of a play. Two new productions fail to convince our correspondent otherwise
Contractions - the Sunday Times review
Mike Bartlett’s 50-minute two-hander is set in the manager’s office. The company has a psychiatrist. You soon see why
Love – the Musical - the Sunday Times review
Sweet as it is, it is all rather shapeless and meandering until the finale; a bit bumbling, like the home’s inhabitants
Fast Labour - the Sunday Times review
Ian Brown’s production crackles with sardonic humour; his actors handle characters and accents like true tragic comedians
Topless Mum - the Sunday Times review
Two journalists publish a shocking photo that Barry, a disabled Afghanistan veteran, has sold them. Is the photo real?
Piranha Heights - the Sunday Times review
Prostitution, fratricide, fundamentalism, TV worship, psychosis . . . all the strong stuff of life is stuffed in here
The Observer
Revenge as a dish served twice
Theatre: You wait 20 years for Middleton's macabre tragedy and then two come along at once...
The Independent
David Lister: The Week in Arts
The midnight hour is the time for culture
Review: Reading Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Love as flat-pack furniture, delivery by Minghella
Reviews: The Revenger's Tragedy, NT Olivier, London; Hysteria, St Bart's Hospital, London
Love: the Musical, Lyric Hammersmith, London; Rosmersholm, Almeida, London
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