ATW NewsClips - London

The Independent

Review: Divas Apollo Theatre, London
Reviews: Black Watch, Barbican, London; The Diver, Soho, London; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Globe, London

Financial Times

Meet the cast
No one is excluded from the performing arts at Chickenshed theatre, where the teenage truant mixes with the middle-class boy and the girl with Down’s syndrome to produce socially groundbreaking work

Simon Callow’s last opera production
The director’s production of ‘The Magic Flute’ for Holland Park Opera will be measured against his conviction that he alone knows how to stage this difficult Mozart piece, writes Anna Kythreotis

Black Watch, Barbican Theatre, London
Gregory Burke’s topical piece about the conflict soldiers face is a superb, multi-faceted political and social drama that explores the male psyche with sympathy and wit, writes Sarah Hemming

Candide, The Coliseum, London
This staging of the wayward masterpiece about America in the 1950s is not just a satirical punch-bag: it is a show with bags of theatrical know-how and razzamatazz, writes Richard Fairman

The Times UK

Joan Rivers heads for Edinburgh
She’s just been thrown off TV chat for saying the f-word. Yet with a new play and a stand-up show, is it all good publicity?

The hidden cost of a night on the town
That theatre or concert ticket might seem good value but, when you arrive, there’s the pricey programme, food and drinks

Shakespeare's Globe at The Frontline
Ché Walker brings the tang of contemporary London street life to Shakespeare’s Globe. Sacrilege or spot-on?

Black Watch - the Sunday Times review
A more moving portrait of war would be difficult to find. Get a ticket to see Black Watch any way you can

The Merry Wives of Windsor - the Sunday Times review
This is a masterful performance: bullish, warm-hearted, frisky, never condescending

The Observer

In bed with the boys from Fife
Theatre review: Black Watch, the tale of the historic regiment's service in Iraq, has been hailed as a theatrical milestone. So how would it strike someone who has reported from the region?

Turning the tables
Rebecca Lenkiewicz once worked as a table dancer in a Soho club. Now she is the first woman ever to have a play performed on the main stage at the National Theatre