GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Sympathy for the devils
‘There's outrage aplenty in this production but we never quite get to the dark night of the soul,’ writes WILL STONE
HOMOSEXUAL REPRESSION: Kingsley Ben-Adir as Brick and Seb Carrington as Skipper
[Marc Brenner]
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Almeida Theatre
TENNESSEE Williams’s favourite play is a masterpiece of richly drawn characters, open to seemingly endless interpretation.
Set on a cotton plantation in the Deep South, the original 1955 production had a white cast performing as the family of wealthy landowners with black actors playing servants.
Since then productions have featured an all-black cast and those set in the modern era complete with mobile phones and iPads.
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