Archive: Theatre

The Black Rider Three of the coolest men who ever lived - singer and songwriter Tom Waits, writer William Burroughs and director Robert Wilson - got together in 1989 to start work on creating a musical fable for the stage. Fifteen years later, the resulting production has finally made it over to the UK. Was it worth the wait? Updated 20/05/2004


Closer To Heaven With a book by Jonathan Harvey and songs by the Pet Shop Boys, this new musical is the gayest thing to have appeared in London's West End for years. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Updated 04/06/2001


Mamma Mia! The Abba Fan Disaster: but not even a six hundred ton avalanche of nutty slack could save the biggest turkey in the West End. If you've ever wondered why there are so few negative reviews on this site, you may be about to find out. Updated 01/04/1999


Shakespeare In Shoreditch Ralph Fiennes and Linus Roache both take the stage / And for their feats are garlanded with roses / At Gainsborough: a theatre for our age, / Yet soon rebuilt as flats for Hoxton posers. Updated 01/07/2000


The Tempest The Almeida theatre was the stuff that dreams were made of, but its little life has been (temporarily) rounded with a sleep. I was there the night it happened. Updated 24/02/2001


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