Author: David Tully


  • Comment: The Returned – Season Finale

    The Returned may not have given us all of the answers that we craved but it certainly went out with a bang, says David Tully

  • Review: Monsters University ★★★★☆

    Intelligent, entertaining and heart-warming, Monsters University typifies everything that I love about Pixar, says David Tully

  • The Returned: Will viewers return?

    David Tully discusses whether French drama The Returned can hold its own in a sea of American imports

  • Preview: West End Eurovision 2013

    The charity show which could be the ultimate stress-buster!

  • Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan

    David Tully explains why Esi Edugyan’s second novel deserves such high praise.

  • First Review: Promised Land ★★★★☆

    The subject of natural gas fracking perhaps doesn’t immediately suggest a Hollywood film but it is exactly this that Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land is offering audiences. My attention had been grabbed by the film’s trailer but I remained slightly sceptical as to whether the dramatization of this normally serious topic would work. I was […]

  • First Review: The Place Beyond the Pines ★★☆☆☆

    The Place Beyond the Pines is full of talent. It’s also full of self-importance and lacking in script, says David Tully.

  • Lift at The Soho Theatre

    Lift is a well-conceived piece of adult musical theatre.

  • Loserville at The Garrick Theatre, London

    A diamond in the rough, Loserville is nevertheless big, bright and alive.

  • Affordable Opera on Your Doorstep

    David Tully sets straight the false stereotype that operas only play to the rich in big cities

  • Macbeth – Theatre Group ★★★★☆

    When I found out that I was to review Theatre Group’s Macbeth I was excited but also a little nervous. In my experience, amateur Shakespeare goes very much one of two ways and, whilst I had faith in the cast, I could not entirely shake my misgivings. It is an absolute pleasure for me to […]

  • Why Understudies are Crucial to the Theatre

    David Tully tells us why understudies are so deserving of our respect and admiration.

  • The 39 Steps at The Criterion Theatre, London

    The 39 Steps is the perfect blend of hilarity and absolute precision. It is also utter madness.

  • Ghost at The Piccadilly Theatre, London

    Ghost is quite probably a technological marvel but this is not the same thing as a great musical.