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Review: THE PIXIE AND THE PUDDING, Little Angel Studios
A gentle and wholesome festive show which offers a nice alternative to the chaos of panto....
Review: WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT, Little Angel Theatre
A beautifully constructed piece of children's theatre, filled with puppetry and song....
Review: PEPPA PIG BEST DAY EVER, Theatre Royal Haymarket
Peppa Pig and friends come to London's West End, offering toddlers the chance to experience live theatre in a fun and friendly environment. Not much in it for the adults but a hit with Peppa's young devotees....
Review: MONOPOLY LIFESIZED, London
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.” Attributed to Nobel Prize-winning economist and Ali G interviewee JK Galbraith, this is the phrase that rolls around my head as I venture into the Crystal Maze-like Monopoly Lifesized, a highly entertaining take on ar...
Review: 12:37, Finborough Theatre
A meandering meditation on Zionism in desperate need of refinement...
Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Think of Clint Dyer's OTHELLO?
Clint Dyer’s production is the first Othello from a black director at the National. Starring Giles Terera as Othello and Rosy McEwen as Desdemona, the Shakespearean tragedy opened last night (30 November).
What did the critics think of the new revival?...
Review: MAKE MINE A DOUBLE - TUNNELS and PRESS, Park Theatre
A dystopian past and dystopian future form the backdrop to two plays that never quite escape their specificities and, consequently, remain a little distant...
2022 Year in Review: Alexander Cohen's Best of 2022
2022 got off to a shaky start. The shadow of Omicron loomed threatening another year of cancellations and a return to the online realm. But as soon as Covid worries dissipated and theatres reopened their doors with confidence, a gentle tide of scandals and uproars ebbed and flowed across the theatre...
Review: ON THE LINE, Camden People's Theatre
While only one hour long, Teglia’s script has a lot of surplus material that’s solely used to bring the topics up. Tia and Kai regale Sienna with the crazy tales of their wild childhood on the estate, painting a clichéd picture of contemporary disadvantaged youth versus their luckier pals. They...
Review: OTHELLO, National Theatre
A forensic psychodrama that turns Othello's inner turmoil inside out....
Review: PANTOLAND, Streaming Online
It is fast approaching Christmas, and we are well into panto season - so what better time to settle down at home to watch one of children's television's greats in full creative mode?
The latest digital festive treat from Panto Online and Peter Duncan is named Pantoland, with stories, characters, an...
Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Think of James Graham's BEST OF ENEMIES?
James Graham's Best Of Enemies is now open at the Noel Coward Theatre, having transferred from the Young Vic. The play is set in 1968 and follows the fight for the American Presidency between the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal, played by David ...
Review: BEST OF ENEMIES, Noël Coward Theatre
It's an exceptional addition to a Theatreland that's generally lacking in political engagement, especially during the Christmas period. It's intense, brainy, and absolutely delectable. The latest West End must-see....
Review: CINDERELLA, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Musician and lyricist Robert Hyman dedicated this adaptation of the classic tale, Cinderella, to the late and much-admired performer, Jo Melville. She once said, 'there's nothing like this, that sheer euphoria that theatre, that panto can give' and yes, hats off to that....
Review: CRACKERS, Polka Theatre
A festive family farce has children squealing with laughter at Polka Theatre....
Review: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, Lyric Hammersmith
With winter nights growing ever darker and Christmas just around the corner, now is the perfect time to treat yourself to everyone’s favourite festive entertainment. Who doesn’t love a pantomime? This year, the Lyric Hammersmith’s offering is a re-imagining of Jack and the Beanstalk. Nostalgia...
Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, London Coliseum
Opera based on much loved 1946 film offers a vision of a town without music, without joy, without love and, in doing so, compels us to value what we have - a moral shared by everyone in the house, but not outside it....
Review: ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL, UK cinemas
Super fun for 7 year-olds to 77 year-olds with all that stage magic up there on the screen...
Review: ELF THE MUSICAL, Dominion Theatre
When Elf The Musical last set foot in London, the critics noted its family appeal, the syrupy content and the extortionate ticket prices. Has much changed this time around?...
Review: BAGHDADDY, Royal Court
There is an interesting theme emerging in the Royal Court's new season. Each play so far has been part of a paradigm shift towards exploring intensely personal stories and questions. It doesn't feel like a knee jerk reaction to a post Covid world. It feels like there is something more fundamental go...
Review: HENRY V, Shakespeare's Globe
Winter has come to the Globe and it brought Henry V to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse for the first time in its history. Holly Race Roughan directs William Shakespeare’s patriotic tale of pride, King, and country in a seductively lit evening that desperately wants to be a fresh anti-imperialist take ...
Review: NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL, Birmingham Rep
Since it was released in 2009, the warm-hearted movie comedy Nativity! has been on many families' essential Christmas viewing lists. This festive season, the stage version of the film returns to Birmingham Rep, where it received its world premiere in 2017. Written, directed and composed by Debbie Is...
Review: A SHERLOCK CAROL, Marylebone Theatre
Super fun for Christmas with two of the world's most loved Victorian characters together at last...
Review: ARMS AND THE MAN, Orange Tree Theatre
A biting satire on Victorian romanticism propped up by knockout performances...
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, The Old Vic Theatre
There are surely few less festive places to be than The Old Vic Theatre while Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol is being staged. From mince pies and satsumas for the audience, Victorian bell ringing, snow falling and turkeys flying from the rafters, is it joyfully reassuring and supremely comforting....
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