Review: THE BAKER'S WIFE, Menier Chocolate Factory
A gentler offering from Stephen Schwartz’s catalogue, this immersive show whisks you away to a time long past with a phenomenal ensemble who find the heart and soul in their characters.
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Review: BARNUM, Watermill Theatre
The Watermill’s dazzling production fully immerses the audience into the showman’s wondrous world in spite of its inherent script issues.
Review: CLOSER TO HEAVEN, Turbine Theatre
The talented cast and creatives can only do so much to elevate the musical’s inherent camp, but Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys' script and songs feel underbaked with characters who aren’t able to be fleshed out.
Review: FANNY, Watermill Theatre
With a captivating performance from Charlie Russell leading a fantastic ensemble and a well crafted script by Calum Finlay, this should mark your next visit to the Watermill Theatre in its amazing summer season.
Review: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, Marylebone Theatre
Nikolai Gogol's 1836 satire The Government Inspector caused a stir for calling out the Russian government's corruption.
Review: CALENDAR GIRLS, The Mill at Sonning
Unlike Firth’s decision to stretch out the film’s first half for the musical, confusingly ending it on the long-awaited calendar photoshoot, his play adaptation allows the audience to see the impact the calendar has on the outside world and the women’s personal lives.
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Watermill Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing is a quintessential Shakespeare farce: mistaken identities, intertwining romances, betrayals and deception all wrapped up with a neat little bow by the end.
Review: POWER OF SAIL, Menier Chocolate Factory
Early in Power of Sail, we learn it’s firmly set in 2019.
Review: DEATHTRAP, The Mill at Sonning
From the man behind Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin's Deathtrap has scared and intrigued audiences since premiering in 1978.
Review: CRUEL INTENTIONS, The Other Palace
Some can agree that the film took itself seriously to the point of unintentional hilarity, so director Jonathan O'Boyle and co-writers Roger Kumble, Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross do the next best thing in adapting it by shifting the tone into campy dark comedy.
Review: TREVOR NELSON'S SOUL CHRISTMAS, Royal Albert Hall
Part of this year's star-studded Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall season, award-winning Radio 2 DJ and urban music pioneer Trevor Nelson returns with his third Soul Christmas concert.
Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, Tabard Theatre
For this festive season, the team behind Tabard Theatre's production of Five Children and It have brought out their own take that will delight and captivate audiences of all ages.
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY, Alexandra Palace
Taking your family to a production of Charles’ Dickens A Christmas Carol is almost as expected as taking them to your local pantomime with at least three major productions running this year alone.
Review: OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, Southwark Playhouse
Revolutionising musical theatre when it first premiered in 1963, Joan Littlewood’s Oh What A Lovely War found humour in expressing its anti-war sentiments to songs popular for the period, even garnering a film adaptation directed by Richard Attenborough.
Review: TREASON THE MUSICAL, Alexandra Palace
Since its five-track EP was released in 2020, much hype has surrounded new musical British Treason.
Review: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, Hampstead Theatre
Riddled with cliched dialogue and unfunny gags, much of the play is spent watching a dysfunctional family bicker through meandering conversations with little structure or purpose.
Review: CASTING THE RUNES, Pleasance Theatre
Following an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, Box Tail Soup’s puppet-based adaptation of James’ horror is now terrifying audience-goers across the UK, stopping at London’s The Pleasance Theatre.
Review: MEETINGS, Orange Tree Theatre
As The Statesman says, the late Mustapha Matura was “the most perceptive and humane of Black dramatists writing in Britain.
Review: OWNERS, Jermyn Street Theatre
In 1972, Caryl Churchill’s first professionally staged work Owners caused quite the stir when it opened.
Review: MLIMA'S TALE, Kiln Theatre
Loosely based on the article The Ivory Highway, Lynn Nottage’s (MJ The Musical) eye-opening drama first made its Off-Broadway premiere in 2018.
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