Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

November 12, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Fairmont Resort, November 11 8.5/10 Dylan Thomas was already dead when Under Milk Wood, the only true masterpiece in the history of radio plays, was recorded in 1954, with a 28-year-old Richard Burton voluptuously intoning the poetry as First Voice. Endlessly revised, the work was still being rewritten up to…

October 9, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, October 8 9.5/10   This is the best Antigone I have seen, and no one who loves theatre should miss it. Sport For Jove’s Damien Ryan may have freely adapted the text, but in so doing he has arrived at a play that is frighteningly true…

September 15, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Capitol Theatre, August 11 7.5/10 You’ve seen chandeliers, helicopters and whatever else once passed for spectacle on a stage. That was amateur hour. Aladdin has scenes to make your eyes grow out on stalks and coups de theatre to leave you lying awake wondering how they were done. Then again,…