Philip Fisher

London editor

E-mail: philip@britishtheatreguide.info

Philip Fisher is the BTG's London editor and a member of the Critics' Circle Drama Section.

He started reviewing theatre at the Edinburgh Festival 2000. Since then, he has become a regular reviewer and writer on theatrical matters, primarily for the British Theatre Guide.

He has also worked on a freelance basis for a variety of other publications. He regularly contributes audio interviews to TheatreVOICE, is the London critic for the Western Mail and the theatre critic of London Accountant Magazine.

He has been published in a wide variety of other journals including The Stage, The Jewish Chronicle and The Wisden Cricketer.

When he is not working as a theatre critic, he is a Human Capital Partner at BDO, a Top 10 firm of accountants. In this guise, he has written numerous articles on taxation matters for a wide variety of publications including The Times as well as writing and contributing to several books.

Latest reviews

Timothy Speyer (Sir Oliver) Russell Bentley (Moses), Nobby Clark

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Red-Handed Theatre at Park Theatre).
Reviewer: Philip Fisher

Daniel Flynn as Harold, Joseph Timms as Terence, Tristram Kenton

Bracken Moor

Alexi Kaye Campbell (Shared Experience at Tricycle Theatre, London).
Reviewer: Philip Fisher

Lucian Msamati - Luke, Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Margaret Alexander, Richard Hubert-Smith

The Amen Corner

James Baldwin (Olivier Theatre (National)).
Reviewer: Philip Fisher

Stephanie Pan, Simon Annand

Trash Cuisine

Nicolai Khalezin, Natalia Kaliada and the Company (Belarus Free Theatre at Young Vic's Maria Studio).
Reviewer: Philip Fisher

Michael Pennington and Linda Marlowe, Catherine Ashmore

Dances of Death

August Strindberg, in a new version by Howard Brenton (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill).
Reviewer: Philip Fisher

Anne-Marie Duff (Nina Leeds), Johan Persson

Strange Interlude

Eugene O'Neill (Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre)).
Reviewer: Philip Fisher