Nick Curtis is The Standard’s chief theatre critic, co-host of the Standard Theatre Podcast, a feature writer and an award winning interviewer. Although he has written predominantly for the Standard for three decades his work has also appeared in most major English newspapers and magazines from Radio Times to Tatler to GQ....
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Nick Curtis is The Standard’s chief theatre critic, co-host of the Standard Theatre Podcast, a feature writer and an award winning interviewer. Although he has written predominantly for the Standard for three decades his work has also appeared in most major English newspapers and magazines from Radio Times to Tatler to GQ.
Boys From the Blackstuff at the National Theatre: still stirring
This is a blast from the past, which still echoes today
Cruel Intentions at the Other Palace: a fast, funny, guilty pleasure
Full of classic hits from No Scrubs to Bittersweet Symphony this is a sexy, smirky riot
Hadestown's Anaïs Mitchell interview and music on our theatre podcast!
Plus, our reviews of Cowbois and The Good John Proctor
Cowbois at the Royal Court: a delight that needs reining in
Charlie Josephine's play is affirming and charming, but also in need of a bit of 'whoa there' and 'giddy up'
Kin at the National Theatre: a moving but messy immigration story
This show is full of mixed messages and its harrowing ending is completely unearned
The Enfield Haunting and Kagami reviews: Theatre podcast
Plus, the West End's best post-show pubs...
Catherine Tate on Enfield Haunting & work with David Tennant
How a ghost gripped the capital, plus Time Lords and a famous catchphrase
Exhibitionists at the King's Head: feels phoney from start to finish
The pub theatre has moved next door but the unfunny comedy of gay manners that opens its new home is not remotely convincing
Stranger Things, Tuppence Middleton, and Tennant's Macbeth
Plus, our hosts discuss the musicals they’re looking forward to see in London throughout this year: 2024 is looking to be a corker.
Kagami: Ryuichi Sakamoto mixed reality show is challenging but moving
This 'mixed reality' presentation allows audiences to interact with the work and spectral figure of the famous composer, 10 months after his death
Standard Theatre Podcast Christmas Special - our shows of the year
Only the best kind of drama this Christmas
The big fat Christmas quiz 2023
AI breakthroughs to royal breakdowns — what do you remember, asks Nick Curtis
This Much I Know at Hampstead: is it the time of year for a lecture?
American writer Jonathan Spector has created something fascinating but flawed
David Tennant gives his all in this Macbeth, so why try to sex it up?
Tennant and Cush Jumbo star as Shakespeare's murderous couple, but their work is overwhelmed by some ill-advised aural shenanigans
Stranger Things at the Phoenix Theatre: it will turn you upside down
This astonishing experience is full of enough thrills, scares and knowing nods to please fans and the uninitiated in equal measure
Ulster American at Riverside Studios: Woody Harrelson sends himself up
This deliberately offensive farce makes audiences guffaw one minute and recoil the next
Cold War at Almeida Theatre: a doomed love story, brilliantly told
Mulled wine and festive cheer? Forget about it, and see this bleak postwar love story unfold instead
Pandemonium at Soho Theatre: pandemic satire misses endless open goals
Elegantly profane language can’t disguise undergraduate-level humour and an incoherent mess of a script
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Hattie Morahan on starring in Ghosts – The Standard Theatre Podcast
Plus we discuss two exciting revivals heading to the West End next year
The Homecoming at the Young Vic: an impeccable revival
There is a direct line to draw from the world of this play to the online toxic masculinity of today