Tag Archives: Jermyn Street Theatre

Writer: Boo Killebrew Director: Stella Powell-Jones Reviewer: Scott Matthewman When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, it was more than just New Orleans that was hit. Playwright Boo Killebrew, from the Mississippi town of Gulfport, was living in Manhattan at the time – but her estranged father, a doctor at the local hospital, was there. His stories of ...

Writer: Esther Freud Director: Gaby Dellal Reviewer: Maryam Philpott With an overcrowded prison system, notable reoffending rates and high instances of suicide, there is an ongoing debate about the appropriate response to crime -  should we punish or rehabilitate. Lady Anne Tree firmly believed in the latter and spent a lifetime visiting prisoners and, in one extraordinary story, essentially running ...

Writers: Morna Young, Emma Harding and Jenny Ayres Director: Stella Powell-Jones Reviewer: Maryam Philpott Jermyn Street Theatre’s Noel Coward Season is as ambitious as it is exciting, and along with the first complete restaging of Tonight at 8.30since the 1930s, it has also commissioned three new plays by female writers inspired by Coward’s anthology. While predominantly remembered for his witticisms, ...

Writer: Noël Coward Director: Tom Littler Reviewer: Karl O’Doherty The Jermyn Street Theatre has set itself an ambitious task – staging a full schedule of Noël Coward’s group of one-act plays Tonight at 8.30. In addition to producing these nine smart shows, it is also staging three pieces of new writing – Tomorrow at Noon. These are brand new and have ...

Writer: Noël Coward Director: Tom Littler Reviewer: Karl O’Doherty The Jermyn Street Theatre has set itself an ambitious task – staging a full schedule of Noël Coward’s group of one-act plays Tonight at 8.30. In addition to producing these nine smart shows, it is also staging three pieces of new writing – Tomorrow at Noon. These are brand new and ...

Writer: Noël Coward Director: Tom Littler Reviewer: Karl O’Doherty The Jermyn Street Theatre has set itself an ambitious task – staging a full schedule of Noël Coward’s group of one-act plays Tonight at 8.30. In addition to producing these nine smart shows, it is also staging three pieces of new writing – Tomorrow at Noon. These are brand new and have ...

Writer: Lanie Robertson Director: Austin Pendleton Reviewer: Scott Matthewman For a woman born at the tail end of the 19th century, Peggy Guggenheim strikes a very modern, liberated chord in Woman Before a Glass, a one-act play by Lanie Robertson. Far more sexually and socially liberated than her peers, Guggenheim collected husbands (not necessarily her own) with as much vigour ...

Writer: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Director: Anna Simpson Reviewer: Maryam Philpott School days were the best days of your life so they say, but few of us remember it like that. While they may provide an educational foundation for who you become, that potent mix of puberty, adolescent hormones and opportunity for bullying can also have lasting effects on both the ...