
Dominic Maxwell
Theatre and Comedy Critic at The Times
Theatre and comedy critic and feature writer, The Times and The Sunday Times
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Dominic Maxwell
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Dominic Maxwell
I don't know about you, but I know what I don't want in theatre. I don't want shows that drift on and on ... oh, except the shows that justify every moment of their three-hour-plus running time, such as Jerusalem or The Lehman Trilogy. Maybe the incoming Broadway smash Stereophonic (190min) will fit the same bill, as the New York reviews suggest it will. I don't want shows that feel like they are serving short measures either, not for these prices.
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Dominic Maxwell
And for at least the first half of this 55-minute show, it's job absolutely done. Dressed ready for a Wild West gunfight in white shirt, waistcoat and ten-gallon hat, Gray fires out tightly written jokes galore with whipcrack assurance. Jokes against the status quo, jokes against herself, jokes about her penis - including the very issue in the phrase "her penis". Does her Essex loquacity resemble Russell Brand's? She has a line about that too.
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Dominic Maxwell
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Dominic Maxwell
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RT @timesculture: It’s Sondheim’s finale at the National, but a summer of burlesque in the West End | ✍️ @dominicjmaxwell Click below for…

Together at last: an oddly boring Star Wars burlesque (“May the phwoars be with you”?) and a half formed yet oddly fascinating final Sondheim. My Sunday Times theatre column https://t.co/JvyUIPiCv0

An Oak Tree review — Tim Crouch is back Back BACK with a 20th anniversary run of his arthouse classic. It came across a bit clogged on opening night, and frankly I should have tweeted this days ago, but it’s a real one-off https://t.co/2ygLnHdjMN