Tim Walker
14 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
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Theatre Review: Wash your hands of Dr Semmelweis
The production is intelligent, well-acted, but oh, so boring
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Theatre Review: Love changes everything… except this show
An Aspects of Love revival feels uncomfortable three decades on
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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
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A corpsing comedy that deserves its cult hit status
Based on a WWII deception that fooled the Nazis, Operation Mincemeat is a deft pastiche
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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
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The test of the moral man
A new play about Sidney Poitier is a fitting allegory for our immoral times
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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
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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
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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
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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
Read the full article28 February 2023
Theatre Review: An arrogant attempt to rewrite Shakespeare
If we’d been allowed to judge it on own terms, Rachel O’Riordan’s production works perfectly well as a slice-of-life drama
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Theatre Review: Trouble in Butetown is intelligent and compelling
This is an atmospheric drama set during the second world war in a claustrophobic boarding house not far from Cardiff Docks
Read the full article23 February 2023
Brexit has wrecked your enterprise
Star Trek actor George Takei still finds much about British politics highly illogical
Read the full article23 February 2023
Theatre review: Casting a wider light on the history of Britain
This musical set on an estate in Sheffield charts the changing times of these islands
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Theatre review: Beverley Knight shines in misfiring suffragette musical
Sylvia fails to live up to its billing as the serious rival to Hamilton it was originally intended to be
Read the full article14 February 2023
Theatre Review: Phaedra collapses under the weight of its own pretentiousness
With its central theme of doomed, forbidden love, it is also a pretty odd play to put on around the time of Valentine’s Day
Read the full article14 February 2023
Theatre Review: The Lehman Trilogy is three hours of perfection
This play is a joyous celebration not just of great writing and acting, but also of the art of theatricality
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Theatre Review: This lemon lacks zest
Two big names can't mask the fact that Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is ponderous, pretentious piffle
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Theatre Review: This is quirky, idiosyncratic, brave – and great fun
Rob Madge's moving story of their relationship with their father is a reminder of Kenneth Williams
Read the full article01 February 2023
Theatre Review: This joke isn’t funny anymore
A comedy which seemed fresh and inventive many years ago now seems limp and hackneyed
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