Seagull: True Story at Marylebone Theatre | Theatre review
Seagull: True Story makes its way from New York to London’s Marylebone Theatre. It’s February 2022, and Kon, a young director, is taking his actors through the final rehearsals of The Seagull by...
View ArticleDeaf Republic at the Royal Court Theatre | Theatre review
Deaf Republic is the new play by Dead Centre and Zoë McWhinney, adapted from the poems of Ukrainian-American author Ilya Kaminsky. Alfonso and Sonya are puppeteers in a small town in Ukraine. Petya, a...
View ArticleThree Billion Letters at Riverside Studios | Theatre review
Is it a play? Is it a science lesson? Is it a public forum? Yes. Three Billion Letters arrives at Riverside Studios feeling like it was created in a lab by sewing together dug-up pieces of other...
View ArticleTill the Stars Come Down at Theatre Royal Haymarket | Theatre review
Beth Steel’s Till the Stars Come Down is family drama and its most intense. Sylvia is getting married and she and her sisters, Hazel and Maggie, are enjoying all being together again for the big day....
View ArticleCruel Britannia: After Frankenstein at The Glitch | Theatre review
A powerful and important one-woman play that too few people will see. It’s the 80s. Thatcher’s Britain. Frank navigates masculine bravado and West Ham away days while Ruby navigates sexual encounters...
View ArticleThe Frogs at Southwark Playhouse | Theatre review
It’s Ancient Greece, but the time is the present. Based loosely on an Ancient Greek play of the same name by Aristophanes, The Frogs was adapted for modern times by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove,...
View ArticleShucked at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre | Theatre review
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre hosts this new corn-based musical from across the pond, a non-stop laughfest with so many jokes it’s a miracle they managed to fit any songs in. Shucked is the story of a...
View ArticleHamlet at Barbican Theatre | Theatre review
This is Hamlet, but not as you know it. It’s a lively and fast-paced reimagining that weaves the experiences of Shakespeare’s characters with the experiences of the cast. Peru’s Teatro La Plaza...
View ArticleThe Play’s the Thing at Wilton’s Music Hall | Theatre review
An impressive one-person showing of Hamlet at the ever-stunning Wilton’s Music Hall. What happens when you try to stage a famously long and large Shakespeare play with just one actor and in just 100...
View ArticleThe Glass Menagerie at Yard Theatre | Theatre review
Tennessee Williams’s first successful play becomes the last to be shown at the Yard Theatre in the building’s current form before its exciting rebirth in 2026. The Glass Menagerie is a story told...
View ArticleAnimal Farm at Theatre Royal Stratford East | Theatre review
George Orwell’s great modern classic is brought back to the stage in this both beautiful and brutal adaptation. Tired of doing all the work and never seeing any reward for it while Farmer Jones lives...
View ArticleCymbeline at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse | Theatre review
A rare find for Shakespeare collectors, Cymbeline returns to the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with vim and vigour. The Roman Empire is angry that Britain has not been paying her dues and war is...
View ArticleSh!t Theatre: Or What’s Left of Us at Soho Theatre | Theatre review
Cult-hit Sh!t Theatre are back with a joke-laden folk music sing-a-long that’s unexpectedly powerful. Reading nothing but the show’s description, one would be forgiven for thinking that Sh!t Theatre:...
View ArticleRocky Horror Show at Dominion Theatre | Theatre review
50 years on from its original debut, Rocky Horror Show returns again, not with a whimper but with a bang. Brad and Janet get a flat tyre during a storm and seek refuge in a nearby castle. That’s about...
View ArticleThe 39 Steps at Trafalgar Theatre | Theatre review
After an eight-year absence from the West End, Patrick Barlow’s The 39 Steps is back and as brilliant as ever. Based less on the beloved spy thriller novel by John Buchan and more on the beloved spy...
View ArticleCamden Fringe 2024: Heart of a Dog at Camden People’s Theatre | Theatre review
Camden Fringe 2024 is in full swing with every kind of weird and wonderful performing art finding a stage. And for five days only, Camden People’s Theatre plays host to Heart of a Dog, a tale of mad...
View ArticleYour Lie in April at Harold Pinter Theatre | Theatre review
A bittersweet harmony of classical music, Japanese manga and cheesy Broadway musical; possibly trying to capitalise on the recent success of other Japanese-origin shows Spirited Away and My Neighbour...
View ArticleNo Love Songs at Southwark Playhouse | Theatre review
Dive bar indie rock gig meets pure theatre kid energy in this brilliant new musical by Laura Wilde and husband Kyle Falconer (lead vocalist of The View). Inspired by the couple’s real-life experiences,...
View ArticleRichard III at Shakespeare’s Globe | Theatre review
Another fun outing at Shakespeare’s Globe, Richard III has a great blend of villainy, tension, drama and humour. The Wars of the Roses are well and truly underway. The Yorkists have triumphed and...
View ArticleLondon Tide at the National Theatre | Theatre review
The very stage comes alive, ebbing and flowing with the rising tide of the Thames, in this musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. John Harmon is beckoned back to London when his...
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