The View from the Circle

It’s mid-December, I’m more mince pie than human and I only know what day it is based on which Christmas lunch I’m going to. This can only m...

High on the list of phrases that are likely to make me instantly book tickets to see a show is ‘starring Simon Russell Beale’. If this is pr...

When you’re watching a musical and find yourself thinking ‘I imagine this is what a musical written by Bruce Springsteen  would be like’ you...

There’s a special quality of listening, isn’t there, when a theatre audience is really, properly engaged in a play? It’s like you could lite...

Like ripping off a dramatic plaster, now that I’ve done one show’s worth of Harold Pinter it’s time to plunge headfirst into another. Pinter...

Stagey confession: I have never seen a Harold Pinter play. Ever. I don’t know why particularly. I don’t think it’s a conscious decision. It’...

I would have loved to have been in the meeting where The Bush Theatre's latest Studio production, Lands ,  was agreed. 'So, it...