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Review: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, New Wimbledon Theatre
As rain threatens to stop play down the road at Wimbledon's famous tennis club, it seems appropriate to be stopping by the theatre to watch Jonathan Church's stage version of Singin' In The Rain. Re-emerging after the pandemic at Sadler's Wells, the light-hearted and brightly cheerful show is now to...
Review: THE FELLOWSHIP, Hampstead Theatre
A week after Windrush Day saw Prince William and his wife visiting the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station, two children of the Windrush generation are at the heart of Roy Williams's new piece. Debuting at Hampstead Theatre, directed by Paulette Randall, it introduces sisters Dawn (Cherre...
Review: VIOLET, Hackney Empire
Worlds collide in a thrilling new opera from Tom Coult and Alice Birch....
Review: MAD HOUSE, Ambassadors Theatre
Sometimes a new play comes along that has all the right ingredients for a delectable theatrical recipe....
Review: SUPERMAN IN CONCERT, Royal Albert Hall
Despite the relentless advance of the modern Marvel franchise, the 1978 film of Superman remains one of the best comic book films ever made. This is, in no small part, due to John Williams' remarkable and iconic score that was nominated for an Academy Award....
Review: THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare In The Squares
Treachery, a magical storm, a catastrophic shipwreck. Far-away islands, spirits, and a love story. All permeated by music. Shakespeare’s swansong might be concerned with its own nature of grand spectacle and the limited resources available to produce it realistically, but Prospero is a sorcerer, i...
Review: FANTASTICALLY GREAT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Chris Bush is having a marvellous year. The writer has been populating theatres across England steadily for months, and now rings in a double-press night on the same day. ...
BWW Review: SOHO SONGS, Crazy Coqs
Early staging of a song cycle that is a delight from start to finish - and can only get better still!...
Review: SUMMER SOLSTICE, Union Theatre
What is love? It's a question that has plagued philosophers and poets for as long as humans have existed. Unfortunately, we are no closer to finding any meaningful answers to this question in Mel Masry's shallow and unsatisfying play....
Review: GIFFORD CIRCUS' ¡CARPA!, Chiswick House And Gardens
The late Nell Gifford, co-founder of Gifford’s Circus, wrote that 'a good circus is a sublimely existential thing, living acutely and only for the present moment.' And so it is with ¡Carpa! (Spanish for tent), the company’s joyful and life-affirming show currently sited in Chiswick House’s ga...
Review: THAT IS NOT WHO I AM, Royal Court Theatre
A narrative spider's web that traps its audience and preys upon their naivety. See what our critic thought! Read the review. ...
Review: KING LEAR, Shakespeare's Globe
Many great performers tackle Lear every year. From Laurence Olivier and Michael Gambon to Ian McKellen and Simon Russell Beale, it’s become somewhat of a tradition for dramatic actors to take on one of Shakespeare’s biggest challenges once their hair starts to grey. Less often, a female actor co...
BWW Review: THE SOUTHBURY CHILD, Chichester Festival Theatre
Funny, frightening and thought-provoking, The Southbury Child cannot quite keep all its plates spinning, but is bold in its ambition and execution...
BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, Donmar Warehouse
Clever (even a bit too clever at times) sequel that picks up Ibsen's action 15 years later in a world that has the intractable problems many of us have today....
Review: DIVERSIFICATIONS, Old Red Lion Theatre
Three women gather in a waiting room to receive the results of their genetic testing. Through palpable tension, they (over)share and confess their deepest secrets, regrets, and hopes. From desperately wanting children, having four of them, or never having been the motherly type, their lives are rule...
BWW Review: JITNEY, Old Vic
August Wilson’s Jitney, a play about Black taxi drivers in Seventies Pittsburgh, last opened in London in October 2001. Cloaked in the resonance of 9/11 and a nation still in shock, it walked away that year with the Olivier award for Best New Play. Two decades on, thoughts run to the Obama preside...
Review: AN EVENING WITH JOE STILGOE, Hippodrome Casino
What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH JOE STILGOWith his latest album’s dropping on the musical theatre scene a few months ago, Joe Stilgoe brought to the attention of all his listeners the figure of Frank Matcham, the turn-of-the-century English architect who specialised in theatres and mu...
BWW Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House's 2003 production gets a much-needed injection of Japanese authenticity while retaining, even enhancing, its moral of how men can abuse their power, as husbands and as colonial occupiers....
BWW Review: THE FALSE SERVANT, Orange Tree Theatre
The theatricality of gender takes centre stage in Paul Miller's take on Marivaux’s 1724 comedy....
BWW Review: THE CAR MAN at Royal Albert Hall
Highly physical, beautifully danced and sexy as all hell, Sir Matthew Bourne’s acclaimed ballet The Car Man made its debut in 2000 and now returns to London with an imaginative new staging at the Royal Albert Hall....
BWW Review: THE GUNPOWDER PLOT, Tower Hill Vaults
What did our critic think of THE GUNPOWDER PLO“Remember, remember the fifth of November” is a turn of phrase etched in the brains of millions of children. The plan was to assassinate James I and overthrow the government in one swift move during the Opening of Parliament in 1605. Led by Robert Ca...
BWW Review: TONY! THE TONY BLAIR ROCK OPERA, Park Theatre
Harry Hill and Steve Brown pack plenty of laughs into the life of an ex-PM who only ever wanted to be Mick Jagger - until he spied the seductive allure of power...
BWW Review: STARCROSSED, Wilton's Music Hall
While Romeo and Juliet have charmed and stirred audiences for over five centuries, another unofficial couple from Shakespeare’s tragedy has instilled doubt and curiosity. Mercutio and Tybalt, sworn foes, are tied together by an invisible string of admiration and attraction....
BWW Review: CANCELLING SOCRATES, Jermyn Street Theatre
Socrates: enigmatic Greek philosopher and generator of many a good quote. Accused of sacrilege and corrupting the young minds of Athens, he was sentenced to death by forced poisoning. He might be revered as the founding father of Western philosophy, but he was a dangerous presence back in Attic time...
BWW Review: NO PARTICULAR ORDER, Theatre 503
A new play on the disintegration of civil society is well-timed, but too bitty in its structure to engage fully with its material or its audience...
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