Theatre Reviews

Art, the UK tour play reviewAfter a brief look at the cover and reviews of Art, I suspected it to be a simple low-key, hearty laugh-fest based on different perceptions of art. I couldn’t have been more wrong. This play is about far more than humorously showing different sides of a painting, it’s about seeing things that you’ve kept hidden for so long in a sight so obscure, you start doubting your own motives and friendships. Every laugh is delicate because of just how intricate and insightful the situations of these ying a

The Nightmare Room at Theater Nottingham Royal review: White Surface, Twisted Hell Underneath:With a deceivingly simple concept, The Nightmare Room sets a cleverly-placed rabbit hole right under your nose to slowly plunder into a stack of many unseen twists and turns in a single white room with two women, one a brash, deceptive businesswoman, the other a frightened, more reserved friend and hostage to the psychotic Catherine’s deadly game. Thinking there’s but one way to settle who gets the love of an American movie star, the actor Michael’s wife Catherine kidnaps and locks her childhood

Mark Gattis works up a storm: The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse reviewThe idea of a blurred line between private and public life can be an intimidating one. But when you’re a royal monarch in a time where people can hardly make sense of an inner conundrum, it can be viewed as an envisioning of hell itself, crunching that last connecting branch to fall into a pit of insanity. Mark Gatiss has had quite the full-circuit experience from playing the deceiving and intellectual (Mycroft in Sherlock) to the pompously aloof (League of Gentlemen) so to see him in a role tha

Review: Jekyll and Hyde at the Nottingham Royal Theater is a must-seeWhen a take on a popular play includes 2 adults acting as children and a twisted altered self is played like a drunk Scotsman, you’d expect this version of Jekyll and Hyde to be a miss but ends up providing a very fresh and overall cleverly executed version of the beloved story. Performed in Nottingham Royal Theatre and directed by Kate Saxon, this version of the well-known classic adds some gripping and intriguing new elements to the material while never separating from the classic themes of g

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