UK / WEST END THEATER REVIEWS

It's the end of the world, or alternatively, the start of a brand new one, and Mirabel seems to be the only person left. Confident and prepared, she sets off across the lonely desert to search for a grown up to make everything better....

Brass brings the Great War's generation to life in a way that educates and entertains - real people emerging from the seemingly endless roll call of The Fallen....

Hampstead Theatre hosts Ifeyinwa Frederick's debut play directed by Lakesha Arie-Angelo, The Hoes is a joyous celebration of millennial womanhood and friendship that's unafraid to show the darker side of growing up. Bim (Marieme Diouf), Alex (Aretha Ayeh), and J (Nicola Maisie Taylor) are best frien...

Creation Theatre update Poe's classic tale adding ballsy, badass attitude, but losing the fear and dread en route....

Years after surviving the Holocaust, Primo Levi (Marco Gambino) is a haunted man who segregates himself in his study to try to come to terms with the terrible events he witnessed. He writes stories to understand them better, conjuring the prophet Elijah (Alex Marchi) to guide him through his recolle...

When you can see Lorca, you should - as this brilliantly realised production proves....

Director Felipe Braga is a much-celebrated talent in Latin America, with his past work including a documentary of the life of Brazilian footballer Neymar (Jr) and other professional athletes. He now turns his attention to Royal Ballet Principal Thiago Soares for his new docu-film Principal Dancer....

First seen in Stratford more than two years ago, the RSC's production of Don Quixote has finally transferred to London's West End....

Bush Associate Artist company Antler arrive with their Edinburgh hit Lands, a high-spirited, tender investigation into a relationship that's on its way to its end....

Tormented Casserole's Gilded Butterflies comes back on stage after successful runs around the UK in their first Off-West end production at The Hope Theatre. The two-hander, devised by the company and directed by Kathryn Papworth-Smith, sees young Maggie (Francesca McCrohon) struggling to keep a hand...

Sweet Like Chocolate Boy tells the tales of Bounty and Mars, growing up black in different generations with different issues to address, the play grounded in the language and music of contemporary London....

Sexy Laundry looks at middle class hopes and fears in a two handed comedy that must have felt a little old-fashioned when first staged in Canada in 2002....

This is a really brilliant production, full of life, energy, exuberance, and joy. Luke Barnes' script breaks your heart in the subtlest of ways. His writing poetically tells the story of abandoned dreams, working class struggle, and the search for happiness. It's a piece that's full of hope, yet abs...

Amana and Hafizah share a love for life and too many dreams to count. One wants to go to university, the other wants to find someone she's lost. Both of them can't, however, go on with their lives as they're being unjustly detained....

Back in 2005, Friedrich Schiller's 18th century offering Don Carlos won rapturous reviews when it transferred to the Gieldgud from Sheffield's Crucible. Now revived by the newly formed Ara theatre company, founded by actor Tom Burke and Israeli director Gadi Roll, it comes to Kingston's Rose Theatre...

A few protestors might be doggedly hanging on outside the Kiln (was Tricycle) Theatre, but their complaints are firmly refuted by its current show: a vibrant adaptation of Zadie Smith's award-winning novel that is not just about but firmly rooted in the diverse, complex 'melting pot' of north-west L...

"You want fame? Well fame costs. And right here is where you start paying in sweat." Fame follows the gruelling training and education regime of several aspiring performers attending the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Be it dancing, music or acting, students must work hard on ...

Grounded in the text with clear intentions from the director and actors, Erica Whyman's Romeo and Juliet feels like you're hearing the play anew....

How do you keep everything together, when everything around you is falling apart? Life's complicated - that's for sure - and for our central character in this story, balancing teaching, romance and adulthood is just a bit too much to handle. Maddie Rice has written and performs in Pickle Jar, a mult...

When seventeen-year-old Simona (Flora Spencer-Longhurst) shows up at Ye's (Lucy Sheen) North London flat with an attitude and a talent for the violin, the aging musician is forced to take a hard look at how success and greatness affect the artistic side of life....

John Logan's Red, which debuted at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009, enjoyed a belated West End run at the beginning of this year. As a further encore, a cinema broadcast of Michael Grandage's acclaimed production will be screened in cinemas nationwide tomorrow (7 November)....

Put simply, Ruby's caricaturistic portrayal of Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel, does great injustice to the source material, and blends comedy and melodrama so unevenly as almost to be making fun of Mrs Meir and the country she led through war....

The second offering in this year's National Youth Theatre REP Season is just as brilliant as the earlier reviewed Consensual. In Victoria's Knickers, Josh Azouz and Ned Bennett - who previously collaborated together on Buggy Baby - have combined brains to make another bonkers piece of theatre, this ...

Now, the London Musical Theatre Orchestra have added their own spin, mounting Girlfriends as a concert with only minimal narration, rather than a fully produced musical. It seems they've found the winning formula: LMTO's Girlfriends is musical dynamite, a burst of energy and passion and very, very g...

The British Library isn't the most obvious place to stage a dance installation but in the case of choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh's Contagion, (which has toured to other non-theatre spaces around the country) the mezzanine floor of the main auditorium of the library takes on the ambience of a dedica...