Category: Our Critics

It starts with a cough. Before we see red-nosed and bleary-eyed Beth (Gweyneth Paltrow), ailing but attributing it to jet-lag, we hear a cough – and it all begins that simply.

What if murderous aliens landed on earth, but instead of poising themselves over the world’s capitals in a fleet of giant spacecraft they crash-landed in a south-London housing project?

I can trace my love of musical theatre to a single moment, seared into my 13-year-old brain. My mom had sprung for tickets to The Lion King at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, smack-dab in the middle of the orchestra.

Wands, horcruxes, and legendary Deathly Hallows. If there are, in fact, still people on Earth completely unfamiliar with Harry Potter lore, now is not the time to begin explaining.