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Review: THE FAMOUS FIVE: A NEW MUSICAL, Chichester Festival Theatre
A show full of good songs, fine singing and engaging characters doesn't quite live up to the sum of its parts...
Review: KING HAMLIN, Park Theatre
The writer packs it with top-shelf themes. Racism, inequality, unemployment, masculinity, gang culture, social media, street violence, class, education. The failure of a system that should support but only cuts. Sadly, this play isn’t the abundance of richness it could be....
Review: TURNING THE SCREW, Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
As part of New Wimbledon Theatre’s Studio Premieres Season, Turning The Screw is a thoughtful and absorbing play that explores composer Benjamin Britten’s infatuation with choir boy David Hemmings while he was writing The Turn Of The Screw....
Review: MY SON'S A QUEER (BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO?), Garrick Theatre
A glistening celebration of queer identity, individuality, and family...
Review: LITTLE MANFRED, Polka Theatre
Following the success of War Horse it’s little wonder that Michael Morpurgo’s books have become a popular choice for stage adaptations. A favourite with primary school teachers too, the bestselling author’s novels can be found in classrooms around the country....
Review: STRANGER SINGS!, The Vaults
Nestled deep underneath the Waterloo railway, get ready to be reintroduced to all your favourites, who will have you laughing your way through the chaotic events of season one (yes, that includes a dancing Demogorgon.) Even if you’re not a fan of the original, there are enough quirky pop culture r...
Review: MUSICAL CON, Excel Centre
Musical Con is the 'West End's first ever musical theatre fan convention', an event designed to connect audiences with their favourite performers, showcase new work and simply have a lot of stagey fun....
Review: A SINGLE MAN, Park Theatre
Unfortunately, it all ends up looking like a fake play seen in a movie where the characters go to the theatre to advance the plot or reflect on life. “I cling only to now” George says at the end, but this iteration clings too much to the established reputation of the material to offer anything o...
Review: A SUDDEN VIOLENT BURST OF RAIN, Gate Theatre
Heartfelt condemnation of treatment of undocumented immigrants let down by structural issues and predictable plotting...
Review: MARVELLOUS, @sohoplace
A new West End theatre launches with a show that is heartwarming but unnecessarily irritating in its structure and style...
Review: DIDO AND AENEAS, Theatre Royal Bath
It's a double first at Theatre Royal Bath with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Regarded as England's first opera when initially performed around 1688, it's also the first opera to be performed in the intimate Ustinov Studio....
Review: TRAINSPOTTING LIVE, Riverside Studios
Choose Trainspotting Live for an unforgettable experience. The good kind....
Review Roundup: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO at the Barbican Theatre
The global premiere of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro has now arrived on London's Barbican stage, but what did the critics think?...
Review: MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO, Barbican Theatre
Triumphant re-imagining of the film that, incredibly, manages to add edge and poignancy to its extraordinary source material...
Review: THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER, Orange Tree Theatre
There are times when a theatre production hits you with such raw, uncomfortable truth that it stays with you....
Review: SOMETHING IN THE AIR, Jermyn Street Theatre
It is a refreshing change to see a romantic story being told from the perspective of two elderly gay men. The world premiere of Peter Gill’s new play Something In The Air is a quiet and gently touching play about remembering people and places as life draws to a close....
Review: THE POLTERGEIST, Arcola Theatre
Philip Ridley writes an atomic bomb of a play and keeps his finger on the release button until Sasha explodes in an earth-shaking climax. Social niceties and typically British politeness masquerade a coarse, brash internal monologue whose quick quips are absolutely annihilating and, frankly, indecen...
Review: THE PLAY WITH SPEECHES, Jack Studio Theatre
Tremendous fun from a comedy that is set in the world of theatre but will find echoes in most workplaces...
Review: LA BOHÈME, Royal Opera House
Focusing on uncontroversial flamboyance, Richard Jones’s revival of his 2017 production of La bohème is a visual spectacle with plenty to please the eye....
Review: THE CHOIR OF MAN, Arts Theatre
If Irvine Welsh had been born in England and written Trainspotting while sat in an old school boozer high on molly, this show may very well have been the result....
Review: KINKY BOOTS, Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
If the show lacks a little in power having been pared back, many more people will have a chance to enjoy a super show...
Review: RE:IMAGINING MUSICALS EXHIBITION, Victoria and Albert Museum
Landmark show that has something for everyone...
Review: THE MOORS, The Hope Theatre
Phil Bartlett presents the British première with a sinister wink and eerie humour, but the text is a mismatch of gothic tropes and too unsure of its identity for the production to come together well. It's astonishing how the narrative lack of focus is as prominent as the precision of the direction ...
Review: THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, Southwark Playhouse
The Canterville Ghost is Oscar Wilde's short novella of an American family moving into a British mansion, to the annoyance of its resident ghost. Tall Stories, as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations, have adapted the narrative and given the tale a quirky treatment by intertwining the narrat...
Review: O, ISLAND!, The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Nina Segal's new play is hamstrung by an old set up....
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