Tag: Simon Coates

Posted in Michael Frayn News Theatre Touring

News: Noises Off announces new touring cast

The full cast for the continuation of the 40th anniversary production of Michael’s Frayn’s multi award-winning farce, Noises Off,…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Stephen (ITV)

Stephen is a deeply compassionate and quietly furious look at the many injustices of the Stephen Lawrence…

Posted in Caryl Churchill Gate Theatre Hampstead Theatre Morgan Lloyd Malcolm News Noël Coward Not-London Royal Court Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Theatre West End Young Vic

August casting update

  Linda Bassett and John Heffernan have been cast in Caryl Churchill’s new play What If If Only,…

Posted in Adam Guettel Almeida Theatre Barbican Theatre Cheek By Jowl Chichester Festival Theatre Dance David Greig David Hare Donmar Warehouse Harold Pinter Jamie Lloyd LGBTQ+ Noël Coward Not-London Old Vic Oscar Wilde Terence Rattigan Theatre Theatre Royal Bath UK West End

June theatre round-up

I might have taken a break from reviewing in June, but I didn’t stop going to the…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Ancient Greeks Digital Mark Gatiss Theatre

Review: The Iliad Online, Almeida/Live-stream

“You can’t kill me I can’t ever die” After three weeks away, all my initial thoughts were…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: King John, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!” One of the terms most overused by reviewers and publicity writers…

Posted in Cheek By Jowl Digital Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Cheek By Jowl’s As You Like It, screening at Noël Coward Theatre

“One man in his time plays many parts” Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of this particular production and…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Theatre

Review: The Prince of Homburg, Donmar Warehouse

“Your face isn’t the most cheerful today” The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist is this year’s…