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6 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Krapp's Last Tape at York's Theatre Royal: Gary Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years makes perfect sense

The Hollywood star has chosen to make his stage comeback - after 37 years - in Samuel Beckett's 50-minute monologue about a rueful old git, surveying the paltry wreckage of his life.

29 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Apex Predator: Yes the title sounds promising, but John Donnelly's muddled new play is as bloodless as its victims

John Donnelly's muddled new play, ostensibly the tale of a young mother suffering from severe post-natal depression , turns into a one-woman, blood-sucking revenge mission against toxic masculinity

36 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews North By Northwest and Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Musical: Only one show has ingenuity, style and wit in this Hitchcock double bill

Alfred Hitchcock is suddenly flavour of the month. But his 1959 classic North By Northwest really ought to be unstageable.

43 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Dear England at the National Theatre: Southgate's super sub scores a winner (despite Lineker's cheesy gags)

Football's come home again to the National Theatre with James Graham's funny, sunny and crowd-pleasing homage to the newly knighted Gareth Southgate.

50 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Clueless at the Trafalgar Theatre: Big-hearted Barbie doll is flawless

From Legally Blonde to Heathers and Mean Girls, musicalisations of teenage romcoms can seem two a penny these days. But this staging (pictured) of the 1995 movie Clueless still has plenty to sing abo…

71 days ago

78 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Churchill In Moscow: The night Churchill and Stalin got sloshed on vodka

The latest play from theatrical provocateur Howard Brenton is about Winston Churchill's visit to Joseph Stalin in Moscow in 1942, and stars Roger Allam (pictured) and Peter Forbes.

85 days ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Elektra at the Duke of York's theatre: The REAL tragedy is this Hollywood star's assault on West End

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Electra, by Canadian poet Anne Carson.

3 months ago

This dark double act mark 30 years of gruesome comedy: PATRICK MARMION reviews Inside No.9 on the stage

Fifty-something TV comedians Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are celebrating their pearl anniversary by redeploying the format of their BBC 'anthology' series, Inside No. 9.

4 months ago

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