UK / WEST END THEATER REVIEWS

The first lethal chamber has just been open in Washington Square. The novelty shakes the young bohemians who, as they address the corruption of art and soul, become entranced by a mysterious book....

Becky (Camille Wilhelm), Felix (Nicholas Marrast-Lewis), and Mary (Fizz Waller) are spending the summer at Camp in the hopes of earning their Gay-Card. In-between classes about the LGBTQ+ community, how to deal with harassment, and how to be inclusive, they learn that support and understanding are a...

What does a Mr Potato Head have in common with a Zimmer frame? Or a rocking horse with antique lamps? Or an empty crisp packet with a baby's highchair? The answer: all of them and more can be found on Fly Davis's set for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate,which opens in the living room of a grand ...

Before Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman came Dogfight, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's 2012 off-Broadway musical. It tells the story of a group of marines' last night of debauchery in San Francisco before being shipped out to war in 1963. This gritty story of love and deception has been re...

Beezer and O'Rourke share a dilapidated flat in London trying to make ends meet. When Dollar, their landlord, promises to forgo their rent for six months and to give them a weekly allowance in exchange for a small favour, they don't think twice of what their decision will entail....

Robert Icke, an associate director at the Almeida for the past six years, bids farewell in typically bold and epic fashion with his latest contemporary update. Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi, which premiered in 1912, has been skilfully reconfigured as an interrogation of 2019's preoccupatio...

A reporter and her camerawoman visit a family after one of their twin children has disappeared. Peculiar family relationships and a modest social critique are unearthed in a New York that's bordering World War 45, where hipsters and criminals coexists in a grim picture of the city....

All or Nothing Repertory Theatre Company unveils what lies behind King Richard III, William Shakespeare's cruel hunchback, the deformed villain who ends the Bard's War of the Roses Saga. Simon Stewart weaves Henry VI Part 2 & 3 and Richard III into a nifty one-hour play depicting how the King is sim...

You may not have realised it at the time, but at some point or other in your life there's a strong chance you will have heard some of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in D minor. Whether it was thanks to Alex's love of a bit of a?oeLudwig vana?? in A Clockwork Orange or through the affiliation of a?oeOde ...

It's the late 1950s and like every year, family and friends gather at Lady Tressilian's summer house in Cornwall. Tragedy hits and a murder is committed in Christie's deliciously dramatic fashion. Brian Blessed therefore concludes his Agatha Christie quartet at The Mill at Sonning with Towards Zero,...

Caroline and Edward are two twenty-something who do nothing in their lives. They spend their upper-class existence pottering around their flat in their silk dressing gowns, lamenting their boredom....

Miles and Mory, two naïve young men who think they have nothing to lose, join the British Army. They come back home tour after tour feeling less than themselves. Miles is especially suffering as his crippling bouts of PTSD start corroding his relationship with his girlfriend Tena and his approach t...

A woman's interest with a cheating couple she sees on her train almost on a daily basis takes a drastic turn when her involvement exposes her brutal childhood and aversion to doing good. Little by little, The Woman (Zoe Cunningham) is revealed to be a cold-blooded sociopath with an obsession with so...

At the age of 21, Patrycja Dynowska is diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. She details her struggles with coping with such a crippling and humiliating - yet entirely invisible - illness in Sh*t Happens, her self-penned solo show....

Conductor Martyn Brabbins celebrated his 60th birthday in fine fashion: with a new commission for 14 composers to create their own set of orchestral variations on an anonymous theme, mirroring the shape of Elgar's Enigma Variations. Programme notes from the composers illustrated a genuine fondness f...

One night, the archipelago of the Antilles is shaken by a terrifying storm. To distract a little girl from the wind and rain, people from the village get together to tell her the story of Ti Moune, a peasant orphan who falls in love with a young a?oegrand hommea?? (one of the light-skinned descendan...

Ross Dinwiddy adapts Joseph Conrad's 1909 novella The Secret Sharer for the theatre and takes it to London after acclaimed runs in Brighton. The original text saw the unnamed Captain of a ship (renamed George Hotson in the play and played by John Black) takes the decision to conceal Leggatt (Gareth ...

It is an obvious statement that each and every person on Earth lives life differently. The clear diverse range of perception has kick-started a series of studies that have gone on to tackle how the human psyche reacts to shapes, among other things, and to attempt to explain the unease perceived by t...

Opera Alegría plonk Rossini's naughty Count on the Home Front in 1943, with lots of laughs in between the fine singing and beautifully played piano....

Tom and Amber are a few months into their studies at Princeton. They both struggle to find their sense of self amongst the hustle and bustle of higher education. The pair couldn't be more different. Tom is a piano player with lots of sexual confidence, whereas Amber is an awkward English student who...

Devon (Fraser Brown), Moira (Roshi Cowen), Jasper (Harry Higginson), and Fenn (Nina Fidderman) used to spend their summers at the farmhouse owned by Goliath. After learning that the man has passed, they reunite in the beloved place. Their summer idylls start to look different as they learn that nobo...

Bobby - like any streaming website subscriber - has been lured into a world of true crime. He's watched countless documentaries, series, and films about sick minds and sadistic individuals, like millions of other people....

Reverend Jim Jones and his disciples made the headlines in 1978 when he ordered his congregation to ingest a drink laced with cyanide, leading to what was considered the greatest loss of civilian life in a deliberate act before the 11th of September 2001....

London, 2010: students flood the streets in protest of the recent cuts to education funding and are kettled in Whitehall. Cairo, 2011: the political climate leads Egypt to rise and rebel against the current government. London, 2019: Dina Mohamed and Hilda Moucharrafieh debut at Camden Fringe with Tr...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted an evening of music where emotion overrode pristine beauty....