The View from the Circle

Saturday was a glorious, sunny day in London; possibly the last real day of summer. Because nothing says summer like angsty Russians, I deci...

Play-ja vu: the feeling you get watching a play that’s very similar to something you’ve seen before. I wonder if there’s a separate faux F...

In a game of word association based on the phrase ‘the Lake District’, ‘taut prison drama’ may not be the obvious response. How many the...

As nice as it is to be surprised, it’s also nice when you think you’re going to love something, you see the something and you actually do lo...

An annual pilgrimage to the Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the highlights of my summer these days. Last year it was big glossy musi...

Guilty confessions of a Shakespeare fan: until this year I had never seen Hamlet live. Even worse, I’d never seen it in any format all th...

The last time composer Tim Minchin and director Matthew Warchus collaborated a beautiful thing was created: Matilda . Combining that level...