Category: Theatre Reviews

June 22, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

Capitol Theatre, June 13 7/10 Chicago borrowed two of the most vacuous characters in theatrical history – Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart – and made them razzle-dazzle the world. Simultaneously its creators, John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, launched a satirical rocket attack on the US justice system, which,…

June 17, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

Wharf 1 Theatre, June 11 8/10 Little children suffer terror with minimal provocation. Dreams, sounds and shadows on the wall will do it, let alone hospitals, war and abduction. Alongside tidal waves of grief, families ripped asunder, all sense of home and belonging annulled and lives devastated beyond salvage, the…

June 10, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

Belvoir St Theatre, May 29 6.5/10 Do we let hate go, or cling to it, and let it define us? Wars breed resentments that last for decades. Those spawned by occupations last for generations, and are renewed by each fresh atrocity and its reciprocation, as we witness in Palestine/Israel. Most…