UK / WEST END THEATER REVIEWS

There is a kettle on stage for much of Robert Icke’s The Doctor. It is one of the few props in this loose adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 play Professor Bernhardi, which was first staged at the Almeida Theatre in 2019 and now receives its delayed revival in the West End. And the kettle’...

A celebration of ZooNation and their greatest hits from the last 20 years was always going to pack a punch, but Kate Prince’s Company of charismatic hip-hop dancers can do wit, comedy, pathos and poignancy too....

With seven books, eight films, a stage production, and countless video games to devour - it's hard to believe there's a new way to share this story, but that's where CiniConcerts step in....

The moments of brilliance in the piece are, unfortunately, overshadowed by its nature and the current commodification of trauma portrayals. We rapidly understand what’s going on, but there’s litte appeal and no hook. We keep watching because we want to know how wrong it will go and how hurt she�...

A new opera inspired by Kurt Cobain based on a film by Gus Van Sant premieres at the Royal Opera House...

Imaginatively staged, for the first time in the UK for 100 years, Emily Louizou’s revival captures in looks and sounds, but fails to engage the audience with its message....

Football opera land perfectly between the Women's Euros and the Men's World Cup finding plenty of common ground to delight fans of both art forms...

Longurst directs with refreshing accuracy and delicate sophistication, creating visual dynamics that make the space feel immense. It’s simply sublime, mandatory viewing for a lesson on empathy, kindness, and the power of music....

Laudable sentiment but something of a missed dramatic opportunity in this play about an Afghan family's journey from Herat to Cardiff and the love they found there...

Noises Off is the original play that goes wrong. Michael Frayn's farce-within-a-farce is now forty years old and this revival both amuses and resonates more powerfully than ever....

Dmitry, a new play, is described as 'After Schiller', but, in its dissection of the ruthless manipulation of a young man aiming for the Tsardom of Russia, one finds parallels more recent blockbusters....

The play marks the UK debut of Samira Wiley, alongside a cast that includes Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Osy Ikhile, Sule Rimi and Giles Terera. So what did the critics think?...

This production, directed by Lynette Linton is nothing short of mesmerising - combining music, movement, and powerful performances to create a production that evokes truly visceral reactions within the audience....

1960s Williams' play that cannot capture the magic of his work in the previous two decades...

Narratively, the story isn’t anything revolutionary, but Burns’s approach is rich with emotional intelligence and clinical precision. She takes on a crumbling, unfeeling practice ruled by waiting lists and a scorecard, exploring how destructive a lack of (financial, yes, but also psychological) ...

In a fabulously fast-paced and funny tribute to Spike Milligan, writers Ian Hislop and Nick Newman affectionately convey how the extraordinary Anglo-Irishman creates The Goon Show....

“Keep it pretty, keep it shallow, keep it moving.” As well as being words that American cabaret singer Justin Vivian Bond (pronoun v) lives by, they go some way to sum up Only An Octave Apart, this eye-catching and pacy two-hander with Grammy-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo....

What did the critics think of Lucinda Coxon's new version of John Gabriel Borkman, starring Simon Russell Beale and directed by Nicholas Hytner?...

If you're looking for some dinner-cabaret, this show really is a no-brainer....

Simon Russell Beale takes on the disgraced mogul, Nicholas Hytner directs. Anna Fleischle designs the show. It’s a winning team, but the piece leaves the audience as cold as a Norwegian winter....

In the first of three new ENO productions this autumn, Christof Loy’s UK Premiere of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s new production is an insightful version that is also subtly updated....

What began with an encounter between director Josephine Barton and Kurdish Iranian musician Marouf Majidi in 2017 in Helsinki has culminated in a converted factory space in Newham and Dido’s Bar, a story of immigrants fleeing war and persecution and finding love in foreign lands....

In a society riddled with fake news, that bends over backwards to regulate a woman's body, justifying its laws with a magical book, The Crucible is frighteningly relevant....

Theatres are no strangers to ghosts. Sadly, the ghost of Herschel Fink will haunt for years to come....

A provocative and ultimately successful reimagining of opera's most operatic of works...