Miles Hedley3 days ago2 minSUMMER TREATS at Greenwich TheatreWriter Mike Bartlett is just about the hottest name in theatrical circles at the moment so it’s quite a coup for Greenwich Theatre to be...
Miles HedleyApr 152 minAPRIL, MAY AND JUNE at Greenwich TheatreDrama, comedy, music, dance and one of the world’s most adored children’s classics – there really is something for everyone at Greenwich...
Miles HedleyFeb 22 minJARMAN at Greenwich TheatreVisionary film-maker Derek Jarman became the ultimate icon of iconoclasm before his life was cruelly cut short by AIDS. Yet he packed...
Miles HedleyJan 122 minALARMS & EXCURSIONS at Greenwich TheatreIt was a brave choice for Greenwich Theatre to take on Alarms & Excursions, Michael Frayn’s comedy about our ever-growing reliance on...
Miles HedleyNov 25, 20212 minTHE QUEEN OF HEARTS at Greenwich TheatreA real test of how good a panto is to try it out at 10 o’clock on a freezing November morning more than a month before Christmas in front...
Miles HedleyNov 17, 20212 minTHE 12 DAYS (AND NIGHTS) OF CHRISTMAS in and around Greenwich1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...
Miles HedleyNov 1, 20212 minTHE QUEEN OF HEARTS at Greenwich TheatreLegendary panto dame Andrew Pollard is heading to Greenwich Theatre once again for the festive season – oh, yes he is! After a year’s...
Miles HedleyOct 6, 20212 minUNKNOWN at Greenwich TheatreHow does a writer create a fury-driven polemic without seeming to batter an audience into submission? The line that separates engagement...
Miles HedleySep 28, 20210 minTIGER LADY at Greenwich TheatreAs we arrived at Greenwich Theatre to see Tiger Lady we were greeted by the cast wandering around the auditorium offering shots,...
Miles HedleySep 8, 20212 minAUTUMN SEASON at Greenwich TheatreAfter what feels like an eternity, live performance is back at Greenwich Theatre this autumn in a season that features drama, comedy,...
Miles HedleyJun 27, 20212 minBAD NIGHTS AND ODD DAYS at Greenwich TheatreThey may be 40 to 50 years old but, as a brilliant new Greenwich Theatre production of four of Caryl Churchill’s early plays reveals,...
Miles HedleyMay 2, 20213 minSPRING/SUMMER SEASON at Greenwich TheatreLive performance is back! And the highlight of Greenwich Theatre’s season is a quadruple bill of brilliant short plays by living legend...
Miles HedleyMar 18, 20212 minTHE AFTER-DINNER JOKE at Greenwich Theatre onlineThe After-Dinner Joke, Caryl Churchill’s great satire on corporate philanthropism, may be 43 years old but shockingly, as director James...
Miles HedleyJan 25, 20212 minWINTER SEASON at Greenwich TheatreAt a time of universal lockdown gloom, Greenwich Theatre is doing its bit to raise our wilting spirits with a mainly online season of...
Miles HedleyDec 30, 20202 minTHE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE online with Greenwich TheatreThe Christmas lockdown forced Greenwich Theatre to close its doors days before its production of the children’s classic The Wolves Of...
Miles HedleyDec 2, 20202 minCHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN in Greenwich, Deptford and onlineThe entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...
Miles HedleySep 29, 20202 minGREENWICH THEATRE AUTUMN SEASONAs the arts face a battle for their very survival, Greenwich Theatre has defiantly launched an autumn season of live performances to keep...
Miles HedleyAug 2, 20202 minTHE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA Greenwich Theatre YouTube channelSteven Berkoff’s play The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia could have been written for lockdown – an exchange of 39 claustrophobically...
Miles HedleyJul 27, 20203 minVOICES IN THE DARK Greenwich TheatreCovid-19 has forced creatives across the arts to find new forms of expression. And Greenwich Theatre’s latest contribution to online...
Miles HedleyJul 16, 20202 minTHE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA at Greenwich TheatreSuperstar actor Dame Helen Mirren is to appear in a groundbreaking new production at Greenwich Theatre this month. The 74-year-old, who...
Miles HedleyMar 1, 20202 minMACBETH at Greenwich Theatre Apart from Hamlet, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most quotable play, containing some of his finest soliloquies and packed with phrases...
Miles HedleyFeb 16, 20202 minPOLLY (THE HEARTBREAK OPERA) at Greenwich TheatreIt’s a brave theatrical performance that begins with the show’s narrator declaring gleefully: Theatre is dead. Such bravado could have...
Miles HedleyJan 19, 20202 minDR FAUSTUS at Greenwich TheatreSplendid Productions lived up to their name when they brought their spellbinding version of Dr Faustus to Greenwich Theatre, ingeniously...
Miles HedleyDec 11, 20191 minA CHRISTMAS CAROL at Greenwich TheatreOur modern idea of Christmas is almost entirely down to Charles Dickens – he’s why the iconography of the festive season remains so...
Miles HedleyDec 2, 20193 minSLEEPING BEAUTY at Greenwich TheatreOne of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...
Miles HedleyNov 11, 20191 minLEST WE FORGET at Greenwich Theatre There’s a lot of really good stuff in Charlotte Green’s play Lest We Forget about the disgraceful treatment of black British troops who...
Miles HedleyNov 8, 20192 minCURTAIN’D SLEEP at Greenwich Theatre Two Lady Macbeths, two Ophelias, a stage split into four quadrants of a circle each visible only to a quarter of the audience, the cast...
Miles HedleyOct 4, 20191 minBKLYN THE MUSICAL at Greenwich Theatre If you love live performance, book a seat for BKLYN The Musical at Greenwich Theatre because the actors and band are as good as any I’ve...
Miles HedleySep 14, 20191 minIN AND OUT OF CHEKHOV’S SHORTS at Greenwich TheatreAnton Chekhov may be best known as a chronicler of tragedy but even amid the despair he will always find moments of comedy. It’s even...
Miles HedleyJun 28, 20191 minM.E.H at Greenwich Theatre One of the great questions posed by art is this: What is real? It is the theme of The Outbound Project’s latest stagework MEH, which is...
Miles HedleyJun 17, 20193 minGREENWICH BOOK FESTIVAL at University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College & Greenwich Theatre This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered...
Miles HedleyMay 19, 20192 minSALOMÉ at Greenwich Theatre You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of...
Miles HedleyMay 12, 20192 minTHE SIGN OF FOUR at Greenwich Theatre I thought Sherlock Holmes was dead, finally laid to rest by the definitive interpretations of Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and Benedict...
Miles HedleyApr 26, 20192 minTHE LONG WALK BACK at Greenwich Theatre We Brits love to put our sporting heroes on pedestals – but we also love to see them fall off. And few have done it quite so...
Miles HedleyApr 3, 20191 minTHE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE at Greenwich Theatre Britain today finds itself horribly divided over Brexit. A century ago the country was also horribly divided - but the reason then was...
Miles HedleyFeb 26, 20191 minTHE SHROUD MAKER at Greenwich Theatre The tragedy of Gaza and the West Bank is one of the most contentious issues of our times, which makes it an ideal subject for dramatists....
Miles HedleyNov 28, 20182 minROBINSON CRUSOE at Greenwich TheatreWhat possible connection is there between Brexit, Donald Trump, dentistry, TV academic Mary Beard and Christmas? The answer – of course –...
Miles HedleyOct 10, 20181 minHERE at Greenwich TheatreThere was a lot of audience laughter during Michael Frayn’s philosophical comedy Here at Greenwich Theatre. It wasn’t the gales of...
Miles HedleyAug 16, 20181 minTHE JUNGLE BOOK at Greenwich TheatreThere weren’t any of those swinging Disney songs in Greenwich Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book but that didn’t stop it being...
Miles HedleyAug 1, 20181 minEIGENGRAU at Greenwich TheatreIt’s self-evident that a great play can be ruined by a below-par cast – no doubt we all have any number of examples in our memories. But...
Miles HedleyMay 17, 20181 minA MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Greenwich TheatreAfter the grisly horrors at the heart of Edward II and Lord Of The Flies, the decision by company-in-residence Lazarus to finish their...
Miles HedleyMar 13, 20182 minLORD OF THE FLIES at Greenwich TheatreEver think acting is easy? Then you should have seen the performance of Lord Of The Flies that I saw at Greenwich Theatre. The young cast...
Miles HedleyFeb 3, 20181 minTRUMPAGEDDON at Greenwich TheatreMany satirise Donald Trump but most fail because the man’s so homophobic, so mysogenistic, so racist, so paranoid and so egotistical that...
Miles HedleyJan 16, 20181 minEDWARD II at Greenwich TheatreThere was a great opening to Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy Edward II at Greenwich Theatre. To an electronica soundtrack the cast, in...