Nicholas Hytner Archives

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. (Photo: Johan Persson)

Review: GIANT, Harold Pinter (2025) Closing 2nd August

Post author:Sonny Waheed
Post published:3 May 2025
Post category:Play Review West End

Giant: A Towering Achievement in Political Theatre Roald Dahl: “Would you buy an Israeli avocado? Or, if you didn’t would that make you anti-semitic?” Hallie (the Dahl household cook): “Does the…

Jonathan Bailey as Richard II (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Richard II, The Bridge Theatre (2025)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 February 2025
Post category:Outside London Play Review

Jonathan Bailey impresses as Richard II ""For God’s sake let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos’d, some slain in…

Maggie Smith (BBC image)

REVIEW: The Lady in the Van, Queen’s Theatre (2000)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:27 September 2024
Post category:Archive Play Review West End

The Incomparable Maggie Smith! "The smell is sweet, with urine only a minor component, the prevalent odour suggesting the inside of someone's ear. Dank clothes are there too, wet wool…