Partially Obstructed View

Last summer I went on holiday to New York, where one of the Broadway shows I had the option of seeing was Tyne Daly in Master Class . I pi...

Conor McPherson's Port Authority shares a format with another Irish play I saw last year, Terminus : That of three monologues delivered...

First Shakespeare of 2012 and the "feast or famine" theme from last year is still going strong - I've only seen King John onc...

Though I'd heard of absurdist classic Ubu Roi I've never seen it, so had a quick online search about it before going to see Simon...

Only a few months after the rather good The Last of the Duchess , another new play from Nicholas Wright, Travelling Light . Or, as I could...

My first trip since starting this blog, to one of the theatres that gave it its title - although as I got an upgrade to the stalls, I can...

So far I've had a 50/50 response to Nick Payne's plays: If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet I liked, Wanderlust I was less co...

Written in 1982 and revised a few times subsequently, Execution of Justice dramatises the trial of Dan White (Philip Duguid-McQuillan,) who...

There's another kitchen on the stage of the new Bush (this time arranged in thrust by designer Morgan Large) but it's a posher and...

Last year, Terence Rattigan's centenary brought some high-profile revivals and a reappraisal of the playwright's work. This year w...

For the second night in a row I'm at a play featuring a long-married couple right at the end of the woman's life, which is a bit u...

January's happy wacky fun party continues with a play about assisted suicide. Tom Holloway's And No More Shall We Part is the lat...

Diversifying just a tiny bit from theatre reviews, I don't think I'll be going so far as to review films with a theatrical connectio...

Yep, it's definitely January - after the fluffier fare of Xmas TM there's a definite heavier mood to London's theatre - even ...

Actor Toby Wharton's first play is co-written with veteran playwright Tash Fairbanks, who was his mother's partner, and was born o...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Although this is a returning production, the performance reviewed was technically a preview. Natalie Abrahami and Ca...

Michael Frayn's double-sided farce Noises Off is regularly described as the funniest play of all time, which has to be a bit of a poi...

Having started at BAC and toured extensively, multimedia company 1927 (named after the year Fritz Lang's Metropolis was released) play...

Welcome to Partially Obstructed View , my new theatre blog. I started a personal blog, So anyway,  back in 2006 but over the years it became...