Nick Curtis is The Standard’s chief theatre critic, co-host of the Standard Theatre Podcast, a feature writer and an award winning interviewer. Although he has written predominantly for the Standard for three decades his work has also appeared in most major English newspapers and magazines from Radio Times to Tatler to GQ....
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Nick Curtis is The Standard’s chief theatre critic, co-host of the Standard Theatre Podcast, a feature writer and an award winning interviewer. Although he has written predominantly for the Standard for three decades his work has also appeared in most major English newspapers and magazines from Radio Times to Tatler to GQ.
Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe: a joyful, sunkissed production
Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers
Stranger Things at the Phoenix Theatre: it will turn you upside down
This astonishing experience is full of enough thrills, scares and knowing nods to please fans and the uninitiated in equal measure
Ulster American at Riverside Studios: Woody Harrelson sends himself up
This deliberately offensive farce makes audiences guffaw one minute and recoil the next
Cold War at Almeida Theatre: a doomed love story, brilliantly told
Mulled wine and festive cheer? Forget about it, and see this bleak postwar love story unfold instead
Pandemonium at Soho Theatre: pandemic satire misses endless open goals
Elegantly profane language can’t disguise undergraduate-level humour and an incoherent mess of a script
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Hattie Morahan on starring in Ghosts – The Standard Theatre Podcast
Plus we discuss two exciting revivals heading to the West End next year
The Homecoming at the Young Vic: an impeccable revival
There is a direct line to draw from the world of this play to the online toxic masculinity of today
Pacific Overtures at Menier Chocolate Factory: a revelation
Unexpected? Yes, but don't let that put you off: this musical is a bijou delight
Patrick Vaill on Stranger Things - The First Shadow
Also: reviews of The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre and the Orange Tree's She Stoops to Conquer
Infinite Life at the National: exquisitely acted and intensely humane
American playwright Annie Baker's fourth show at the National is about the way we seek connection and meaning
Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz: flow, flair and a late sucker punch
Nathan Queeley-Dennis' debut play won rave reviews at the Fringe for good reason. He is clearly a talent to watch
Macbeth at the Depot, Liverpool: marketing masks a pedestrian show
Fiennes and Indira Varma have an easy chemistry but apart from the design and locations, this is a standard Scottish play
The House of Bernarda Alba at the NT: remorseless study of repression
Harriet Walter cleaves through the teeming action like a dreadnought
The Witches! Luke Thallon! Two Strangers’!
Plus! Our top picks of the shows to see this Christmas...
Andrew Richardson, rising star of Guys & Dolls, on his breakthrough
He was a total unknown before the show, now he's an Emerging Talent nominee at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023
Jack Wolfe on small town Wales and the London stage
The Emerging Talent nominee talks ahead of his first Evening Standard Theatre Awards
She Stoops to Conquer at the Orange Tree: a charming, starry revival
Like too much champagne, this story of country bumpkins outwitting London swells is sparkling but confusing
Lebedev Award winner Sam Mendes: me run the National? No way
He also had harsh words for the government's idea of what levelling up means for theatre
Andrew Scott, our Best Actor winner: 'I'm genuinely shocked'
The stage and screen star called Vanya 'a little bit mad' but people flew from all over the world to see it
Ruth Wilson: our Editor's Award winner on her 24-hour stint on stage
The Second Woman went from curious experiment to a bona fide London theatre phenomenon as soon as she stepped on the stage
Ghosts at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre: Hattie Morahan simmers sublimely
Productions of this Norwegian play seem to be either sublime or awful: this one is very, very good indeed.