Tim Walker
29 November 2023
Theatre Review: This Christmas Carol has a chilling resonance
The withering contempt Christopher Eccleston's Scrooge has for the poor and homeless hits particularly hard this year
Read the full article10 November 2023
Theatre Review: Mandy Patinkin, the Broadway legend going it alone in the West End
The American actor's solo show is eloquent - if sometimes self-indulgent
Read the full article08 November 2023
Theatre Review: The Queen Mother’s champagne-loving servant is the subject of the funniest West End play in years
Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets
Read the full article23 October 2023
Theatre Review: No more Lloyd Webber revivals, please
The latest reboot of Sunset Boulevard veers into self-indulgence
Read the full article17 October 2023
Theatre Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane feeds the imagination
An adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel makes for a startling production
Read the full article06 October 2023
Theatre Review: Flowers for Mrs Harris cleans up with a triumph of Anglo-French co-operation
Patient theatregoers will be richly rewarded with Bronagh Lagan's production of the Paul Gallico book
Read the full article21 September 2023
Theatre Review: Pygmalion skewers the social climbers
Richard Jones's revival displays perfectly what a preposterous activity our national obsession is
Read the full article17 September 2023
Theatre Review: This Private Lives was dead on arrival
For a West End production, this show was simply not up to the mark
Read the full article17 September 2023
Theatre Review: Little Big Things brings large joy
At a time when we have seen so much of the worst of it, this show appears to be tapping into something big
Read the full article17 August 2023
Theatre Review: Alone Together is a play for your mind
Simon Williams has written a very clever and thoughtful play with an unusually sure grasp of the human condition
Read the full article14 August 2023
Theatre Review: The timely revival that drags just a little
The return of La Cage Aux Folles, the show that proved too much for Thatcher-era Britain
Read the full article29 July 2023
Theatre Review: Wash your hands of Dr Semmelweis
The production is intelligent, well-acted, but oh, so boring
Read the full article28 July 2023
Theatre Review: This Sound of Music is one of my favourite things
Adam Penford’s production of the classic musical speaks to our populist times
Read the full article12 July 2023
Theatre Review: Crazy For You is fun if undemanding
Unlike the joyless reworking of Oklahoma!, this gets the point of a big, old-fashioned musical
Read the full article26 June 2023
Theatre Review: Groundhog Day is one to see over and over again
The writers have taken a film that I couldn't imagine could ever be improved upon and managed to improve upon it
Read the full article21 June 2023
Theatre Review: McKellen and Allam are a charming odd couple
Frank and Percy lets the two old stagers do their thing, which is what makes it work so well
Read the full article19 June 2023
Theatre Review: Winston’s war is strange and uneven
Jack Thorne's telling of an early BBC struggle is unfocused, often boring and poorly realised
Read the full article29 May 2023
Theatre Review: Love changes everything… except this show
An Aspects of Love revival feels uncomfortable three decades on
Read the full article29 May 2023
Theatre Review: Misguided Mountain fails to move
The stage version of Brokeback Mountain is well-meaning, well-acted and well, pointless
Read the full article23 May 2023
A triumphant tale of love and Haiti
1990s musical Once on This Island gets a sensational revival
Read the full article17 May 2023
A corpsing comedy that deserves its cult hit status
Based on a WWII deception that fooled the Nazis, Operation Mincemeat is a deft pastiche
Read the full article05 May 2023
Mark Gatiss takes his cue from Gielgud
Many TV comedy actors come a cropper when they turn to serious stage roles, but the League of Gentlemen star captures Sir John magnificently
Read the full article02 May 2023
The test of the moral man
A new play about Sidney Poitier is a fitting allegory for our immoral times
Read the full article17 April 2023
Theatre Review: Private Lives is the Donmar at its very best
Noel Coward's play is funny now in a way that is tragic
Read the full article29 March 2023
Theatre Review: This Winnie the Pooh is a bear necessity
This musical is a joyous explosion of colour, light and good humour
Read the full article29 March 2023
Theatre Review: Black Superhero is good-looking but skin deep
There’s almost certainly a great play to be written about gay black and mixed-race men but this sadly isn’t it
Read the full article21 March 2023
Theatre Review: Anarchic comedy is disturbingly timely
It’s nothing short of terrifying that Tom Basden has managed to shift a story of Italian police corruption so effortlessly and convincingly to a metropolitan police station in this country
Read the full article21 March 2023
Theatre Review: This Marjorie is in her prime
A triumphant production about life, love, growing old and dying has absolutely restored my faith in theatre
Read the full article14 March 2023
Theatre Review: Ensemble cast shines in slice-of-life drama
Sleepova is one of those free-flowing, slice-of-life dramas that, with a no-frills staging, places a vast amount of pressure on the individual actors to make something of their parts
Read the full article14 March 2023
Theatre Review: This Bonnie & Clyde is criminally time-consuming
It’s clear everyone has tried very hard to make this show work. They failed
Read the full article07 March 2023
Theatre Review: Shirley Valentine revival serves up stale taramasalata
The story of a bored Liverpudlian housewife finding love on a holiday to Greece now feels very dated
Read the full article07 March 2023
Theatre Review: This Oklahoma! is so not a beautiful evenin’
This has been said to be a dark reimagining of the old classic, but it is taking the word too literally
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