Everything about it looks as if it has delved deep into the clichés of another age
Australia
Theatre
Small is better and sometimes beautiful when it comes to this scaled-down, intimate version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
Sunset Boulevard
Restaurants
Canteen looks so much the part. The owners stress that they take design as seriously as they do food
Canteen Baker Street
Without doubt THE worst film I can remember seeing in many a year
The entire cast give outstanding performances that had the audience in tears of sorrow and laughter
It is sheer joy from start to finish. Especially the dancing skeletons
Nicholas de Jongh is astonished that Lisa Kron's Well received two Tony Award nominations and praise from the New York Times... more | Add your review
There were huge cheers as the curtain came down, and rarely have they felt so poignant as in English National Ballet's Manon... more | Add your review
Amid all the confusion one can spot the kernel of a fine idea in Rosy Fordham's Sleeping Beauty and this is frustrating. .. more | Add your review
Adrian Berry has moved Dickens’s indestructible 1843 story to the present day but those partial to a good bit of Victoriana can rest assured that the beating heart of the piece is still intact... more | Add your review
Richard E Grant, Juliet Stevenson and Antony Sher are among the stars of the new season at Richmond Theatre... more | Add your view
The Orange Tree does what few other venues have the time or inclination to undertake, namely a trawl through the archives to unearth neglected gems of early 20th-century theatre like Mary Goes... more | Add your review
Don John, the new take on the downfall of the legendary lover Don Giovanni, is limp in all the wrong places, says Fiona Mountford. .. more | Add your review
Nicholas de Jongh liked the ingenuity, underlying seriousness and political bias of Glenn Chandler's Boys of the Empire... more | Add your review
TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party shifts with mesmerising stealth into terrain of suffering and death... more | Add your review
The Thief of Baghdad has wonderful music and clever sets and, although the plot is too detailed, the story is sweetly told. .. more | Add your review
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Marina Carr's two-hander, The Cordelia Dream, hitches a ride on the back of King Lear but is unceremoniously shrugged off... more | Add your review
Small is better and sometimes beautiful when it comes to the scaled-down, intimate version of Sunset Boulevard... more | Add your review
Loot takes serious aim at an England eager to wear the trappings of respectability while succumbing to immorality... more | Add your review
The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker benefits from the assured touch of Peter Wright, a director and producer who knows how to keep things traditional and real... more | Add your review
Simon Reade mounts his own adaptation of The Scarecrow and His Servant with five actors, recycled props and a whole field-full of charm. .. more | Add your review
The magnificent Clive Rowe towers above in Mother Goose; singing, dancing, ad-libbing and making the oldest jokes in the panto book gleam afresh. .. more | Add your review
It hasn't got Sir Ian McKellen starring in it, or Stephen Fry writing it, but New Wimbledon Theatre's Cinderella is as posh as panto is going to get... more | Add your review
Michael Grandage's triumphant advance upon the West End continues with a treasurable Twelfth Night that discovers a renewed sense of comedy... more | Add your review
You would never have guessed from the self-confidence and composure of his performance that Edward Bennett was a stand-in Hamlet... more | Add your review
The festive focus on 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at Christmas makes the show substantially slicker, wittier and deeper than before. .. more | Add your review
This year we've got a bog standard line-up of B-listers and too many Americans, says Bruce Dessau
Video has emerged of Russell Brand allegedly inserting a toy doll up his bottom
After watching Angus Deayton at the British Comedy Awards, all is forgiven
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