Nick Curtis is Chief Theatre Critic of the Evening Standard, a feature writer, columnist and award-winning interviewer. For the paper he has reported on mayoral campaigns, terror attacks and the 2012 Olympics, recreated the first scheduled commercial flight in a biplane, and opened Tower Bridge....
Nick Curtis is Chief Theatre Critic of the Evening Standard, a feature writer, columnist and award-winning interviewer. For the paper he has reported on mayoral campaigns, terror attacks and the 2012 Olympics, recreated the first scheduled commercial flight in a biplane, and opened Tower Bridge.
Vardy, who was a Jehovah’s Witness for 15 years, said making this documentary for Channel 4 was an “emotional rollercoaster”
After a promising start, this play ends up becoming increasingly repetitive
Mincemeat the musical has wit, charm and a Eurobeat number for a Nazi boyband
After The Mash Report was cancelled by the BBC, comedian Nish Kumar is back with a new and uncompromising political podcast. He talks to Nick Curtis about receiving death threats, starting therapy and staying optimistic
Henry can confidently add ‘playwright’ to his already polymathic CV
In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing
It’s a Sin’s Lydia West brings vulnerability and likeability to her stage debut
Ivanno Jeremiah delivers a performance of great strength and delicacy as the pioneering actor
The script feels as if it’s constantly, energetically changing shape, often shooting off at random tangents that never reach resolution
Compilation musicals have had a bad press, but this is a hugely superior example of the genre.
The Secret Life of Bees embraces many troubling tropes, mixes them all up in a musical bran tub, and - I think - synthesises something new
Even if you missed all the subtext, this show would still delight in its acute depiction of family dynamics
This show was clearly planned as a crowd-pleaser, a reappraisal of a classic and a star vehicle, but it doesn’t fully satisfy on any of those counts
From musicals to Shakespeare, performances of all stripes are being interrupted by booze-fuelled and up-for-a-party audiences. So is good etiquette a thing of the past? Nick Curtis reports
This play has fallen prey to Hampstead Theatre’s many woes
Though relentlessly bleak, this is a superb piece of theatre
This play puts a human face on momentous events outside the usual concerns of British theatre
This show transposes the off-key weirdness of the original, but the story could use more jeopardy, darkness and more of the monsters
This aimless musical is more a minestrone of ideas than a bunga-bunga romp
Marjorie Prime offers stimulating ideas and some great acting, but it’s not a great play
