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Review: ARE YOU WATCHING?, Royal Court
Clad in pastel pyjamas and lounging on bunkbeds, two preteen girls discuss the repeated drugging and rape of Gisèle Pelicot. Their tone is not the sobering one of a news reporter, or even the hushed horror of one learning about the case for the first time, but light and jovial, teasing each other a...
Review: HIGH SOCIETY, Starring Helen George and Freddie Fox
Latest in the line of blockbuster Cole Porter musicals dominating the Barbican’s summer programming is High Society, following in the footsteps of Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate. Like its predecessors, High Society is, to a certain extent, an excuse for a series of absurd situations contrived to ...
Review: 360 ALLSTARS, Peacock Theatre
Returning to London with their trademark energy and astonishing athleticism, Onyx Productions’ 360 ALL STARS continues to prove why it has remained a global success for more than a decade. This urban circus spectacle brings together world class performers from across a range of disciplines, celebr...
Review: WAR HORSE, National Theatre
Nearly twenty years since its original run at the National Theatre and after worldwide success, Joey has come home. Back on the Olivier stage, the emotional and technical jugganaut that is War Horse has lost none of its impact or thrill....
Review: THERE’S A MONSTER IN YOUR SHOW, artsdepot
Tom Fletcher’s much loved Who’s in Your Book? series makes a joyful leap from page to stage in There’s a Monster in Your Show, a lively and engaging family musical which celebrates imagination, friendship and the importance of working together....
Review: COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Opera Holland Park
There’s a certain neat irony at the heart of this. A female director, returning to this opera for a second season (and for its third outing in Holland Park's semi-open staging), has chosen to stay largely faithful to a work whose central idea is that women are inherently unfaithful....
Review: THE P WORD, Bush Theatre
What a joy it is to see Olivier Award-winning The P Word returning to the Bush Theatre, along with original cast members Esh Alladi and Waleed Akhtar. A deeply moving, heartfelt and important play for our times....
Review: COUNTERPOINT OF CHAOS, His Majesty's Theatre
Multi-tasking seems to come easy to the American dancer, choreographer, pedagogue and artistic director Maria Caruso. Based in Pittsburgh, where she founded the company Bodiography Contemporary Ballet a quarter-century ago, Caruso also creates and teaches dance around the world. (Next stop: Brazil.)...
Review: GIFFORDS CIRCUS: WATERFIELD, Chiswick House & Gardens
There is a moment, somewhere between the knife-thrower's insane grin and Brian the Goose making his entrance with the unruffled authority of a minor aristocrat, when you simply have to give in to the magic. Giffords Circus has this effect on people. It has had this effect on people for twenty-six ye...
Review: THE TEMPEST, Starring Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh has returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to tread the boards of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where we last saw him 33 years ago as the Prince of Denmark directed by Adrian Noble. This time around, Branagh takes on Shakespeare’s swan song under Richard Eyre. He gets to tick Prospero of...
Review: BEETLEJUICE: THE MUSICAL, Prince Edward Theatre
For musical fans, it's been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over. Beetlejuice: The Musical has crossed the pond and landed in London. It's loud, brash, and certainly won't please Tim Burton purists. ...
Review: REDCLIFFE, Southwark Playhouse
In early 1753, two men – a footman named William Critchard and a sailor named Richard Arnold – were arrested and executed for ‘buggery’ in the Bristol suburb of Redcliffe. The story, recently uncovered through court documents in local archives, is an unusually detailed account of the prosecu...
Review: BLACK COMEDY, Orange Tree Theatre
There is exactly one joke in Peter Shaffer's 1965 farce: when the lights come on, the characters are in the dark. Everything else — the borrowed furniture, the hapless sculptor, the stern colonel, the ex-girlfriend arriving at the worst possible moment — is just escalation....
Review: ALBATROSS, Omnibus Theatre
It’s become something of a cliché in climate change coverage that the crisis has emerged out of the sins of the older generation wrought upon the young, and that fixing it is something that parents owe their children. Never, though, is that maxim quite so apparent than in this family drama, from ...
Review: BLIZZARD, Southbank Centre
Blizzard by FLIP Fabrique at the Southbank Centre is a contemporary circus production which captures both the harshness and wonder of winter, through a fusion of acrobatics, clowning, live music and physical theatre. ...
Review: RED, Crazy Coqs
Red is a dazzling and richly entertaining musical revue which celebrates the flame haired icons who have shaped stage and screen history, whilst simultaneously showcasing the extraordinary talents of its creator and performer, Amber Topaz. Stylish, intelligent and brimming with affection for its sub...
Review: OUR MOTHER'S DAUGHTERS, The Hen & Chickens Theatre
At the heart of every female friendship group, no matter the age group, is love and a joint effort to make sure you’re in each other's lives until you’re old and grey. Our Mother’s Daughters looks at the question of ‘is loving someone enough to look past their political views and belief syst...
Review: TALES FROM ACORN WOOD, artsdepot
Tales From Acorn Wood at artsdepot is a warm, engaging and visually playful introduction to theatre for young audiences, bringing Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much loved stories delightfully to life through puppetry, songs and audience participation....
Review: DARK OF THE MOON, Charing Cross Theatre
The history of musical theatre was almost very different. In 1943, a ‘play with music’ called Dark of the Moon narrowly missed out on being selected for out-of-town tryouts in Connecticut, in favour of the genre-defining classic Oklahoma!. Now, after being reworked into a musical that premiered ...
Review: I'M SORRY, PRIME MINISTER, Richmond Theatre
Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker and former Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey are reunited in poignant and nostalgic fashion in Jonathan Lynn's I'm Sorry, Prime Minister, the final chapter for two characters so beloved from the TV series that made them British institutions....
Review: MEGAN HILTY, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
It might still be some time until Death Becomes Her hits London, but the West End was ablaze with its spirit this past weekend, when Megan Hilty graced the stage of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. No one does it like the Broadway superstar. Hilty delighted the audience with stories spanning over two d...
Review: THE DANCE FACTORY - DADA MASILO’S HAMLET, Sadler's Wells
If you know the Shakespeare play this dance version is inspired by, you'll be on board with this truncated romp through the key scenes - murder, marriage, mousetrap, nunnery, church, closet, madness, death. Masilo's early death in 2024 gives her final work a power through the lens of grief....
Review: IL TURCO IN ITALIA, Glyndebourne
Il Turco In Italia may not be Rossini's most famous work, but if there is any justice, this wonderful revival of Mariame Clément's 2021 Festival production will bring this opera to much wider attention. An uproarious comedy accompanied by a rousingly galloping score and gorgeous vocals; it is the e...
Review: THE HARDER THEY COME, Stratford East
In another world, Jimmy Cliff’s ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’ would have made a barnstorming musical theatre ‘I Want’ song. This musical adaptation of the late reggae pioneer's 1972 film – which premiered here in Stratford in 2005, and was reworked in New York in 2023 – makes tha...
Review: GENTLEMAN JACK, Sadler's Wells
At this point in the history of humanity, a ballet translated from screen to stage or built around a real person is more likely to raise eyebrows than expectations. That’s not to say they have a uniform quality - Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby blew the roof off Sadler�...
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