fri 22/08/2025

Helen Hawkins

Articles By Helen Hawkins

Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked satire?

Read more...

Eight Postcards from Utopia review - ads from the era when 1990s Romania embraced capitalism

Read more...

Every Brilliant Thing, @sohoplace review - return of the comedy about suicide that lifts the spirits

Read more...

Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, Rambert, Sadler's Wells review - exciting dancing, if you can see it

Read more...

Good Night, Oscar, Barbican review - sad story of a Hollywood great's meltdown, with a dazzling turn by Sean Hayes

Read more...

The Daughter of Time, Charing Cross Theatre review - unfocused version of novel that cleared Richard III

Read more...

Giselle, National Ballet of Japan review - return of a classic, refreshed and impeccably danced

Read more...

That Bastard, Puccini!, Park Theatre review - inventive comic staging of the battle of the Bohèmes

Read more...

Till the Stars Come Down, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - a family hilariously and tragically at war

Read more...

Too Much, Netflix - a romcom that's oversexed, and over here

Read more...

The Other Way Around review - teasing Spanish study of a breakup with unexpected depth

Read more...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunity to give new stage life to a Who classic

Read more...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story of Black survival in 1905 New York

Read more...

Chicken Town review - sluggish rural comedy with few laughs (and one chicken)

Read more...

Outrageous, U&Drama review - skilfully-executed depiction of the notorious Mitford sisters

Read more...

Stereophonic, Duke of York's Theatre review - rich slice of creative life delivered by a 1970s rock band

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Houghton / We Out Here festivals review - an ultra-marathon...

The long, hot summer of 2025 has been something else, right? Hate rallies, creeping authoritarianism, a weird reluctance to discuss the extremity...

Faustus in Africa!, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 re...

What new light can the age-old legend of Faust selling his soul to the devil shed on colonialism in Africa, slavery, the rape and destruction of...

Sorry, Baby review - the healing power of friendship in the...

“I have a baby in me,” says Lydie (Naomi Ackie; Mickey 17). “What? Right now?” says her friend Agnes (Eva Victor), who may not be...

BBC Proms: Liu, Philharmonia, Rouvali review - fine-tuned Tc...

Pianist Bruce Liu wasn’t the only star soloist last night, though he certainly had the most notes to play. Attention was riveted by at least five...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Imprints / Courier

Imprints, Summerhall ...

Album: Deftones - Private Music

Deftones’ Private Music arrives as the band’s long-awaited tenth studio album, carrying with it the weight of expectation built from...

BBC Proms: Suor Angelica, LSO, Pappano review - earthly pass...

At first, I had my doubts about Puccini’s Suor Angelica...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Ode Islands / Delusions a...

The Ode Islands, Pleasance at EICC ...

Album: Eve Adams - American Dust

A sticker on the cover of American Dust is says it’s “an ode to the beauty of the American Southwest,” specifically the High Desert area...