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Review: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, Arcola Theatre
Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, revived here by Ensemble OrQuesta as part of the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn season, is a highly controversial and disputed work of baroque opera which flips the script on contemporary morality....
Review: YEAST NATION THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE, Southwark Playhouse
Crazy show that might become a cultish success, but currently just looks misconceived and misplaced...
Review: BAD JEWS, Arts Theatre
Strong performances carry this cringe-inducing family feud....
Review: CHASING HARES, Young Vic
“I’m not political. Not at all.” Prab and his wife Kajol are struggling to make ends meet in early 21st century Kolkata. Since the local factory closed indefinitely, they’ve had to take on any jobs going ito be able to support themselves and their baby daughter, Amba. After treating themselv...
Review: BRIEFS: BITE CLUB, Southbank Centre
It’s taken three years but the Briefs cabaret crew have finally returned from Down Under with not just a new show but, with Sahara Beck and her band, a new direction too....
Review: LITTLE WOMEN, Opera Holland Park
Bold programming pays off with an opera that has its demands but offers rewards in equal measure...
Review: MARGOT LA ROUGE/LE VILLI at Opera Holland Park
What did our critic think of MARGOT LA ROUGE/LE VILLI at Opera Holland Park? You have to applaud Opera Holland Park for not only focusing on money-spinning blockbusters, but for giving rarely performed works an airing. In a double bill of short operas (think bite-sized short story rather than weight...
Review: 101 DALMATIANS, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
In theory, Dodie Smith’s well-loved story of 101 Dalmatians is the perfect material for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. In practise the production lacks bite....
Review: THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT, Kiln Theatre
An inorganic melodrama that stuffs too many themes together....
Review: CLOSER, Lyric Hammersmith
It has been a quarter-century since Patrick Marber's Closer debuted, but this play, in which everyone screws everyone in every sense of the word, has lost absolutely none of its epic brutality....
Review: JEAN PAUL GAULTIER FASHION FREAK SHOW, Camden Roundhouse
Jean Paul Gaultier deploys dance, music and video to tell the tale of a life that laughed at convention but had hard work, technical mastery and a generosity of spirit at its heart...
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, National Theatre
John Heffernan and Katherine Parkinson lead a superb cast in a brilliant realisation of director, Simon Goodwin's, conceptualisation of Shakespeare's comedy....
Review: PROM 4: CYNTHIA ERIVO: LEGENDARY VOICES, Royal Albert Hall
Cynthia Erivo, just a few weeks away from beginning rehearsal for the Wicked movie, in which she is playing Elphaba, pops into BBC Proms to give audiences a night they'll never forget. The Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning artist provides the audience with special renditions of some of her favouri...
Review: SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET, Leicester Square Theatre
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare doesn’t take itself too seriously and puts bawdy entertainment at the top of the agenda; whether Shakespeare himself would give the thumbs up (or perhaps some other finger) is a question for another day....
Review: ESTELLA, Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Charles Dickens' novels are filled to the brim with characters who capture different elements of the human condition - evil and good and, crucially, plenty in-between. Perhaps the most fascinating of them all - at least she was to me when first I read Great Expectations in my mid-20s - is Estella, P...
Review: GIVE ME THE SUN, Blue Elephant Theatre
In a sparsely decorated London council flat, a father and son have been keeping secrets. It takes less than an hour for Mamet Leigh's new play to unpack the question of selfhood in the context of immigration....
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES, Bristol Hippodrome
It’s tough to keep a musical juggernaut like Les Misérables going. It’s even tougher to keep it feeling fresh, night after night for well over 35 years. Where others have faltered, Les Misérables has kept marching on to its own revolutionary drum beat. ...
Review: THE WOMAN WHO AMUSES HERSELF, Jack Studio Theatre
A splendid central performance illuminates a play full of humour that also smuggles in deeper considerations on the character of art in a changing world...
Review: JACK ABSOLUTE FLIES AGAIN, National Theatre
Jack Absolute Flies Again! Originally scheduled for the Spring of 2020, it took two years, a director change, and a cast reshuffling for the show to get off the ground. It finally lands at the Olivier in a flashy production that has very little substance. One wonders how such a play ended up on one ...
Review: PEAKY BLINDERS: THE RISE, Camden Garrison
Get your flat-cap ready and brush up your Brummie accent: the immersive Peaky Blinders: The Rise has arrived in London....
Review: MILLENNIALS, The Other Palace
A ball pit, inflatable flamingos, beanbags, a pink shiny wall, beach balls, and a giant avocado. Walking into the transformed Studio at The Other Palace is like stepping into a pink and green Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, where unexpected fun lies around every corner....
Review: PENNYROYAL, Finborough Theatre
Pennyroyal is a small, but almost perfectly-formed, triumph....
Review: ANYTHING GOES, The Barbican
No, no, it isn’t déjà vu: Anything Goes really is back at the Barbican less than a year after it last opened there. ...
Review: HUNGRY, Soho Theatre
“I thought I was being romantic, but I’m just being drunk and gay”. Everything changes when Bex starts serving at Lori’s catering company. Lori is a polished high-end chef enamoured of food and what it can give people, while Bex is a working-class young woman whose go-to meal is chicken nugg...
Review: YUMMY: ICONIC, Underbelly Festival
Australian drag variety show Yummy: Iconic features of quintet of performers dishing out an upbeat blend of dance, circus, burlesque and as much as lipsyncing as they can cram in. Will this tasty mix of talents leave you satiated or craving something more substantial?...
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