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Review: THE SNAIL HOUSE, Hampstead Theatre
Big ambitious new play derailed by too many cookie-cutter characters and a central dilemma that fails to land as its explanation lacks the required clarity...
Review: HANDBAGGED, Kiln Theatre
Indhu Rubasingham's revival of Buffini’s play is playful and fiercely funny, whilst deftly tackling serious issues. It explores the battle of wills between two powerful women: The Queen and Margaret Thatcher, through the eleven years Thatcher served as Prime Minister....
Review: 2:22 - A GHOST STORY, Criterion Theatre
The new company brings new energy to Matthew Dunster’s production, but the core of the show remains a smashing success....
Review: THE TWO POPES, Rose Theatre
Anthony McCarten's thoughtful and witty play is now revived at Kingston’s Rose Theatre in a production that deftly combines solemnity with fun in portraying the fictional relationship between Pope Benedict and Pope Francis....
Review: THE P WORD, Bush Theatre
This two-man show explores what it’s like for a gay Muslim, who’s also dealing with the expectations of his Pakistani family and the wider community; it also investigates the continued threat of the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ – a deadly game of chance for many at-risk individuals....
Review: DON GIOVANNI, Royal Opera House
With the opening night delayed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II and coming at a period of national mourning, this latest revival of Kasper Holten’s take on Don Giovanni is as cathartic an experience as it gets....
Review: LOVE ALL, Jermyn Street Theatre
As directed by Littler, it’s deceivingly traditional on the surface. The staging is rather conventional with its 30s sitting rooms, period furniture, and interwar fashion tying the subject matter to its temporal setting and social class. ...
Review: THE CLINIC, Almeida Theatre
An awkward marriage of melodrama and naturalism...
Review: SALOME, Royal Opera House
If you thought horror as a genre wasn’t something opera dabbled in, think again. The fourth outing for David McVicar’s 2008 production of Richard Strauss’ is as bloody and gruesome as it gets in Covent Garden....
Review: WHO KILLED MY FATHER, Young Vic
Èdouard Louis’ book about love and anger is loved around the world. In the story, a son returns home to his remote part of northern France. ...
Review: THE TIGER LILLIES: THE LAST DAYS OF MANKIND, Wilton's Music Hall
The Last Days Of Mankind is undeniably one of the strangest plays few people have heard of. Written by Karl Kraus during and about the First World War, this docudrama which ends in a Martian invasion is rich pickings for the dark cabaret trio. @wiltonmusichall @thetigerlillies...
Review: ANTIGONE, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Nigerian born writer, Inua Ellams, originally turned down working on Antigone due to feeling “no distant kinship with the protagonist.” Five years of work later, how could Ellams have predicted that his modern adaptation would feel so responsive to the current socio-political climate. ...
Review: WALKING WITH GHOSTS, Apollo Theatre
Catch a master at work in London before the show heads to Broadway...
Review: REHAB THE MUSICAL, Playhouse Theatre
First premiering five years ago at the Union Theatre, Rehab the Musical draws on songwriter Grant Black’s own personal experience of rehab....
Review: AGE IS A FEELING, Soho Theatre
An unspectacular meditation on human mortality...
Review: SILENCE, Donmar Warehouse
Following a rebellion against the British in 1857, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of Indians and Britain’s, the Crown established a viceroy system over India, affirming its hold over the population. ...
Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Southwark Playhouse
Directed by Ricky Dukes, Lazarus Theatre offer a take on Christopher Marlowe’s demonic tale that defies all genres, spanning everything from farce to gore in 95 minutes of esoteric intrigue. Historically controversial, Marlowe’s play had its first outing at the end of the 16th Century, but stays...
Review: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV998, Sadler's Wells
Complex chords are paired with seminal choreography in The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 from choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and pianist Pavel Kolesnikov....
Review: THE BEAR and AND I DECIDED..., Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre
Opera at Home's double bill offers the traditional and the avant-garde...
Review: NOT F**KIN' SORRY, Soho Theatre
As the title suggests, the crip-cabaret crew Not Your Circus Dog collective are definitely, truly and utterly not f**king sorry. Anyone leaving this show not even slighty more aroused, enlightened or happier than when they arrived should be checked for signs of life....
Review: REUBEN KAYE: THE BUTCH IS BACK, Soho Theatre
Those new to Reuben Kaye should be warned that there are few holy cows that he is unwilling to turn into beefburgers. Sexuality, gender, race, politics, economics and religion are all grist to his mill. Imagine if legendary comedians Bill Hicks and George Carlin had a bastard child in the shape of a...
Review: BBC PROMS AND THE ENO at Printworks London
The Proms, Printworks, and multimedia mayhem. Created and co-produced by award winning counter tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Philip Glass's meditative Minimalism and Handel's Baroque elegance crash together in a cacophony of artistic media....
Review: LARKIN WITH WOMEN, Old Red Lion Theatre
There's more to Larkin's life than we see here, but, nevertheless, it's a lovely play that does full justice to the three women with whom he spent much of his life...
Review: VENUS, CUPID, FOLLY, & TIME: 30 YEARS OF THE DIVINE COMEDY, The Barbican Centre
Celebrating thirty years of cerebral pop, The Divine Comedy return to the Barbican to pick up where they left off in 2020....
Review: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE, Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre
Fascinating one act opera performed by technically very strong singers and musicians, but let down a little by a lack of clarity in its narrative exposition...
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