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Sam Marlowe

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Sam trained as an actor, and began her writing career as a critic and features writer for What's On In London magazine. She later became the magazine's theatre editor, before going on to work at The Independent, where she regularly contributed arts features. She is now a freelance arts journalist and regular theatre critic for The Times, Metro and the Chicago Tribune, and a judge for Theatre Awards UK.

Articles By Sam Marlowe

Fanny and Stella, Garden Theatre review - a saucy slice of queer history

Wednesday, 12 August 2020 Read more...

Institute, BBC Four review – masculinity and memory in a nightmarish world of work

Monday, 20 July 2020 Read more...

Sondheim at 90 Songs: 5 - 'Every Day A Little Death'

Friday, 27 March 2020 Read more...

& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre review - the Bard with dancefloor bangers

Thursday, 21 November 2019 Read more...

Lungs, Old Vic review - deluxe casting and slick delivery

Tuesday, 22 October 2019 Read more...

Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre review – blood, sweat and bullets

Friday, 02 February 2018 Read more...

Hamilton, Victoria Palace review - rich, radical and ridiculously exciting

Saturday, 23 December 2017 Read more...

Beginning, National Theatre review - assured, intimate, but short of surprises

Saturday, 14 October 2017 Read more...

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Theatre Royal Haymarket

Friday, 29 July 2016 Read more...

Eventide, Arcola Theatre

Thursday, 08 October 2015 Read more...

City of Angels, Donmar Warehouse

Thursday, 18 December 2014 Read more...

My Night with Reg, Donmar Warehouse

Wednesday, 06 August 2014 Read more...

King Charles III, Almeida Theatre

Friday, 11 April 2014 Read more...

Let The Right One In, Apollo Theatre

Wednesday, 09 April 2014 Read more...

Chimerica, Harold Pinter Theatre

Friday, 23 August 2013 Read more...

The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, Temple Studios

Thursday, 18 July 2013 Read more...

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