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Peter has been involved in the theatre since his school days. First attracted to write and feature in reviews for his local youth group, he also wrote and acted in several school productions.
Most of his time at University was spent stage managing, lighting or building sets for college productions in the massive auditorium of Queen Mary College, University of London – the old ‘People’s Palace’ down the Mile End Road in London’s East End.
After a spell of some 11 years as a school teacher during which he stage managed and assisted with numerous school productions (some of which he would largely prefer to forget!), Peter embarked on a career in computer based training and has been producing award-winning multimedia programmes for more years than he cares to remember. During this time, he’s had the privilege of working with some great actors – including Tom Wilkinson – and award-winning directors such as Lawrence Moore, now a close and highly-valued friend.
A keen fan of the work of Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller, Peter Brown has what can only be described as eclectic tastes in both theatre and film – in a sense, the ideal viewpoint for a reviewer.
Other interests include jazz, computer technology and sustainability. Peter always replies to comments or enquiries from readers, and can be contacted at:

Peter Brown's reviews for londontheatre.co.uk
Absurd Person Singular Garrick / 12 Dec 2007)
Afterlife (Lyttelton, NT / 11 June 2008)
After The Dance (Lyttelton, NT / 9 June 2010)
All About My Mother (Old Vic / 5 Sep 2007)
All The Fun of the Fair (Garrick / 28 April 2010)
All My Sons (Apollo / 1 June 2010)
And Then There Were None (Gielgud / 26 Oct 2005)
Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare Globe / 28 July 2010)
The Anniversary (Gielgud / 27 Jan 2005)
Antony and Cleopatra (Globe / 5 July 2006)
Antony and Cleopatra (RSC at Novello / 15 Jan 2007)
As You Like It (Novello / 7 March 2006)
Attempts on Her Life (Lyttelton, NT / 15 March 2007)
Babe, The Sheep-Pig (Open Air / 3 Aug 2006)
Bad Girls - The Musical (Garrick / 14 Sep 2007)
Bedroom Farce (Duke of York's / 31 March 2010)
Behind the Iron Mask (Duchess / 3 Aug 2005)
Believe What You Will (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 2 Feb 2006)
Bent (Trafalgar Studios 2 / 5 Oct 2006)
La Bete (Comedy / 8 July 2010)
The Big Life (Apollo / 24 May 2005)
Bill Hicks: Slight Return (The Venue / 1 June 2006)
Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace /11 May 2005)
The Birthday Party (Duchess / 26 April 2005)
Blackbird (Albery / 14 Feb 2006)
Boeing Boeing (Comedy / 16 Fen 2007)
The Boyfriend (Open Air / 20 July 2006)
Breakfast with Mugabe (Duchess / 8 May 2005)
Brazil x2: The Assault & The Last Days of Gilda (Old Red Lion / 21 Aug 2009)
Bubba & Luvvie (King's Head (Fringe) / 27 July 2010)
By The Bog of Cats (Wyndham's / 3 Dec 2004)
Cabaret (Lyric / 11 Oct 2006)
Caesar Twins And Friends (Comedy / 25 Jan 2006)
The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 18 Jan 2010)
A Christmas Carol (King's Head / 13 Dec 2009)
Cinderella (Old Vic / 14 Dec 2007)
Cirque du Soleil's Dralion (Albert Hall / 6 Jan 2005)
Clybourne Park (Royal Court Downstairs / 2 Sep 2010)
Comedy of Errors (Novello / 10 Jan 2006)
Comedy of Errors (Globe / 1 Aug 2006)
Comedy of Errors (Open Air / 29 June 2010)
Coram Boy (Olivier, NT / 17 Nov 2005)
Coriolanus (Globe / 16 May 2006)
Cosmonaut .... (Donmar Warehouse / 11 April 2005)
The Country Wife (Haymarket / 10 Oct 2007)
The Creeper (Playhouse / 13 Feb 2006)
The Crucible (Gielgud / 6 April 2006)
The Crucible (Open Air, Regent's Park / 2 June 2010)
Crunch! (Arts / 29 Mar 2007)
Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury / 23 Sep 2006)
Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge / 19 July 2005)
Danton's Death (Olivier, NT / 23 July 2005)
The Deep Blue sea (Vaudeville / 13 May 2008)
Derren Brown (Garrick / 8 May 2008)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Novello / 16 Nov 2007)
Disco Pigs (Pleasance - Fringe / 25 April 2006)
Enron (Noel Coward / 27 Jan 2010)
Disney's High School Musical (Apollo Hammersmith / 8 July 2008)
The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello / 6 JUne 2007)
Ducktastic (Albery / 24 Oct 2005)
Dumb Waiter (Trafalgar Studios One / 9 Feb 2007)
Educating Rita (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 26 July 2010)
Elephant Man (Trafalgar Studios Two / 6 April 2007)
Elmina's Kitchen (Garrick / 27 April 2005)
Embers (Duke of York's / 3 March 2005)
Emperor Jones (Olivier, NT / 29 Aug 2007)
The Entertainer (Old Vic / 8 March 2007)
Equus (Gielgud / 1 March 2006)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Olivier, NT / 14 Jan 2010)
Evita (Adelphi / 22 June 2006 )
Fame (Shaftesbury / 9 May 2007)
The Fantasticks (Duchess / 10 June 2010)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Open Air / 1 Aug 2007)
The Far Pavalions (Donmar Warehouse / 20 April 2005)
Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 29 May 2008)
Female of the Species (Vaudeville / 17 July 2008)
Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy / 30 may 2007)
Fool For Love (Apollo / 21 June 2006)
Footloose - The Musical (Novello / 18 April 2006)
Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida (Theatre503 / 13 July 2008)
Frida Kahlo Viva La Vida (Oval House / 23 Oct 2009)
The Frontline (Globe / 9 July 2008)
Full Circle (Oval House / 1 Nov 2006)
Ghosts (Duchess / 24 Feb 2010)
Ghost Stories (Duke of York's / 15 July 2010)
Gigi (Open Air / 14 Aug 2008)
The Glass Menagerie (Apollo / 15 Feb 2007)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Apollo / 12 Oct 2007)
Glorious (Duchess / 4 Nov 2005)
God of Carnage (Gielgud / 27 Mar 2008)
Gone With the Wind (New London / 22 April 2008)
Grease (Piccadilly / 9 Aug 2007)
Gutenberg! The Musical! (Jermyn Street / 9 Jan 2006)
Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly / 20 June 2005)
The Habit of Art (Lyttelton, NT / 25 Nov 2009)
Hair (Gielgud / 15 April 2010)
Hairspray (Shaftesbury / 1 Nov 2007)
Hamlet (New Ambassadors / 22 Feb 2006)
Hamlet House of Horror (Old Red Lion / 12 Aug 2010)
Hecuba (Albery / 8 April 2005)
Henry IV (National / 4 May 2005)
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Globe / 14 July)
Henry VIII (Globe / 24 May 2010)
Her Naked Skin (Olivier, NT / 1 Aug 2008)
Heroes (Wyndham's / 20 Oct 2005)
High Society (Shaftesbury / 10 Oct 2005)
The Ho-Ho Club (King's Head / 3 Oct 2006)
Holding Fire! (Globe / 3 Aug 2007)
Honour (Wyndham's / 16 Feb 2006)
The Home Place (Comedy / 30 May 2005)
Hound of the Baskervilles (Duchess/ 17 April 2007)
House of Bernarda Alba (National / 17 March 2005)
I Am My Own Wife (Duke of York's / 14 Nov 2005)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville / 31 Jan 2008)
In Celebration (Duke of York's / 18 July 2007)
In Extremis (Globe / 1 Sep 2006)
Inherit the Wind (Old Vic / 7 Oct 2009)
Into The Woods (Open Air Regent's park / 16 Aug 2010)
Jane Eyre (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 15 May 2006)
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (Garrick / 20 June 2006)
Jersey Boys (Prince Edward / 21 March 2008)
Jerusalem (Apollo / 11 Feb 2010)
Joan Rivers (Leicester Sq / 4 Sep 2008)
Kean (Apollo / 31 May 2007)
King Lear (Albery / 18 Jan 2005)
The Lady From Dubuque (Haymarket / 21 March 2007)
Lady Julia (Hen & Chickens - Fringe / 2 Dec 2009)
Legally Blonde (Savoy / 9 Jan 2010)
The Letter (Wyndham's / 2 May 2007)
Liberty (Globe / 3 Sep 2008)
Lies Have Been Told (Trafalgar Studios / 11 Jan 2006)
Lies Have Been Told (Trafalgar Studios / 26 June 2006)
A Life in the Theatre (Apollo / 3 Feb 2005)
Life of Galileo (Olivier, NT/ 8 July 2006)
The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick / 22 Jan 2010)
Little Shop of Horrors (Duke of York's / 12 March 2007)
London Assurance (Olivier, NT / 11 March 2010)
Lord of the Rings (Drury Lane / 21 June 2007)
Love and Money (Maria at Young Vic / 21 Nov 2006)
The Lover / The Collection (Comedy / 30 Jan 208)
Love's Labour's Lost (Globe / 11 July 2007)
Love Song (New Ambassadors / 5 Dec 2006)
Love Never Dies (Adelphi / 10 March 2010)
Mack and Mabel (Criterion / 11 April 2006)
Macbeth (Gielgud / 27 Sep 2007)
Macbeth (Theatro Technis / 25 Feb 2006)
Macbeth (Open Air / 4 June 2007)
Macbeth (Shakespeare Globe / 29 April 2010)
Macbeth (Open Air Regent's Park / 11 July 2010)
Major Barbara (Olivier, NT / 5 March 2008)
A Man for All Seasons (Haymarket / 4 Jan 2006)
Man of Mode (Olivier, NT / 7 Feb 2007)
Marguerite (Haymarket / 22 May 2008)
Marilyn Case: #81128 (Jermyn Street / 17 May 2005)
Market Boy (Olivier, NT / 7 June 2006)
Measure for Measure (Lyttelton, NT/ 18 Feb 2006)
Member of the Wedding (Young Vic/ 13 Sep 2007)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Globe / 19 Sep 2010)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Novello / 7 Feb 2006)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Open Air / 9 June 2006)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Open Air / 8 June 2007)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe / 21 May 2008)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Open Air / 12 Jul 2008)
Monty Pythons Spamalot (Palace / 18 Oct 2006)
Mother Courage and Her Children (Olivier, NT / 26 Sep 2009)
Movin' Out (Apollo Victoria / 10 April 2006)
Mrs Warren's Profession (Comedy / 25 March 2010)
The Mushroom Pickers (Southwark Playhouse / 4 May 2006)
My Matisse (Jermyn Street / 22 Nov 2006)
Nation (Olivier, NT / 25 Nov 2009)
Never Forget - Take That Musical (Savoy / 23 May 2008)
A New Way To Please You (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 23 Dec 2005)
A New World - A Life of Thomas Paine (Globe / 3 Sep 2009)
A Night in November (Trafalgar Stuios 1 / 22 Oct 2007)
'night, Mother (Etectera / 21 April 2006)
Night of the Iguana (Lyric / 6 Dec 2005)
Once in a Lifetime (Olivier, NT / 21 Dec 2005)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Garrick / 29 Mar 2006)
On The Third Day (New Ambassadors / 23 June 2006)
The Old Country (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 20 March 2006)
Othello (Upstairs at Gatehouse / 6 Oct 2006)
Othello (Globe / 24 May 2007)
Othello (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 18 Sep 2009)
Otherwise Engaged (Criterion / 1 Nov 2005)
Our Town (Camden People's (Fringe)/ 6 July)
Pete and Dud Come Again (The Venue / 8 Mar 06)
Peter Pan - El Musical (Garrick / 30 Mar 08)
Pillars of the Community (Lyttelton, NT / 2 Nov 2005)
Pluto (Blue Elephant / 30 May 2008)
Porgy and Bess (Savoy / 14 Nov 2006))
Preacherosity (Jermyn Street / 14 April 06)
Present Laughter (Lyttelton, NT / 3 Oct 2007)
Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy / 1 Oct 2009)
Prisoner of Second Avenue (Vaudeville / 19 July 2010)
Private Lives (Vaudeville / 3 March 2010)
Pygmalion (Old Vic / 19 May 2008)
Rafta, Rafta (Lytteton, NT / 27 April 07)
The Real Thing (Old Vic / 22 April 2010)
Rent (Duke of York's/ 17 Oct 07)
The Revenger's Tragedy (Olivier, NT / 5 June 2008)
Ring Round the Moon (Playhouse / 20 Feb 2008)
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville / 21 Oct 2009)
Rocky Horror Show (Comedy / 5 Jan 2007)
Romeo & Juliet (Albery / 21 Dec 2004)
Romeo & Juliet (Open Air / 9 June 2008)
Royal Hunt of The Sun (Olivier, NT / 13 April 2006)
Saint Joan (Olivier, NT / 13 Jul 2006)
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (The Venue / 7 Dec 2005)
Scrooge (London Palladium / 9 Nov 2005)
The Sea (Haymarket / 24 Jan 2006)
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Duchess / 21 July 2010)
Sejanus: His Fall (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 18 Jan 2006)
The Shawshank Redemption (Wyndham's / 15 Sep 2009)
Shirley Valentine (Trafalgar Studios / 26 July 2010)
Shoot The Crow (Trafalgar Studios / 13 Oct 2005)
Side by Side by Sondheim (The Venue / 1 May 2007)
Sinatra At the London Palladium (London Palladium / 9 March 2006)
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Haymarket / 30 Nov 2006)
Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic / 20 Jan 2010)
The Soldiers' Fortune (Young Vic / 22 Feb 2007)
Smaller (Lyric / 4 March 2006)
Some Girl(s) (Gielgud / 25 May 2005)
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (New Ambasssadors / 21 April 2005)
Sound of Music (London Palladium / 20 Nov 2006)
Speaking Like Magpies (RSC at Trafalagar Studios / 15 Feb 2006)
Speed-the-Plow (Old Vic / 13 Feb 2008)
Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham's / 24 May 2006)
Steptoe & Son (Comedy /23 Feb 2006)
Sweet Charity (Haymarket / 4 May 2010)
Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville /16 Oct 2007)
Taboos (New End / 28 Feb 2006)
Taming of the Shrew (Open Air / 5 June 2006)
Taming of the Shrew / Twelfth Night (Old Vic / 17 Jan 2007)
The Tempest RSC at Novello / 28 Feb 2007)
The Tempest Tara at Arts / 10 Jan 2008)
That face (Duke of York's / 9 May 2008)
Theatre of Blood (National / 21 May 2005)
Thomas More (Trafalgar Studios / 6 Jan 2006)
Timon of Athens (Globe / 6 Aug 2008)
Titus Andronicus (Globe / 30 May 2006)
To The Mountain (Studio at Theatre Museum / 7 April 2006)
Twelfth Night (Novello / 13 Dec 2005)
Twelfth Night (Open Air / 13 June 08)
Two Way Mirror (Courtyard / 2 Mar 2006)
Tynan (Arts / 21 Feb 2005)
Underneath the Lintel (Duchess / 12 Feb 2007)
Under the Black Flag (Globe / 18 July 2006)
Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York's / 28 July 2008)
Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea.... (Theatro Technis / 24 March 2005)
Vernon God Little (Young Vic / 8 May 2007)
Visiting Mr. Green (Trafalgar Studios 1 / 8 April 2008)
The Vortex (Apollo / 27 Feb 2007)
Voysey Inheritance (Lyttelton, NT / 26 April 2006)
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (New End / 5 April 2007)
War Horse (Olivier, NT / 18 Oct 2007)
Welcome to Thebes (Olivier, NT / 22 June 2010)
We the People (Globe / 6 Sep 2007)
Whipping It Up (New Ambassadors / 2 March 2007)
Whistle Down the Wind (Palace / 28 March 2006)
The White Guard (Lyttleton, NT / 24 March 2010)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Apollo / 2 Feb 2006)
Whose Life is it Anyway? (Comedy / 25 Jan 2005)
Wicked (Apollo Victoria / 28 Sep 2006)
The Witches (Wyndham's / 9 March 2005)
The Woman Before (Brockley Jack - Fringe / 10 Nov 2009)
Women of Troy (Lyttelton, NT / 29 Nov 2007)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Lyttelton, NT / 1 May 2008)
Ying Tong (New Ambassadors / 14 Feb 2005)
You Never Can Tell (Garrick / 8 Nov 2005)
Zorro The Musical (Garrick / 16 July 2005)

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