Review: END OF THE WORLD AND HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND, Barbican Theatre
Extraordinary spectacle delivers in Murakami adaptation that doesn't quite land
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Review: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION, Royal Ballet & Opera
The Royal Ballet season opens on the main stage with a special programme: A Centenary Celebration.
Critics Praise Gaten Matarazzo And Cast In RENT Revival At The Tom Stoppard Theatre
Set in New York's East Village, Rent follows a group of young artists, musicians and friends, navigating love, ambition and creativity while trying to build lives on their own terms.
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Hope Mill Theatre
Intimate venue gets high production values to deliver a marvellous show
Review: INTO THE WOODS, Noël Coward Theatre
Awe-inspiring revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods running until 9 January, 2027.
Review: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, Richmond Theatre
Shirley Jackson’s 1959 gothic novel skyrocketed back to recognition in 2018 when it inspired Mike Flanagan’s Netflix sensation of the same name.
Gaten Matarazzo Makes West End Debut In Powerful 30th Anniversary Revival Of RENT
It's been a long wait since London last saw Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical rock masterpiece that won four Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer.
Review: THE ANASTASIA FILE, Salisbury Playhouse
Jenny Seagrove reprises her role as a woman claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, in a touring production.
Review: THE HUNGRY GHOST, Bush Theatre
There’s a constant thread of wanting running through the centre of Mei Leng Yew’s debut play.
Review: AFFLUENZA, starring Noah Schnapp, Riverside Studios
Stranger Things alum and alleged Zionist Noah Schnapp is top billed, though he is selling a show that has him on stage for under a third of its running time.
Review: WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY, Finborough Theatre
It starts in the claustrophobic, liminal space of a ferry terminal, and both parties don’t really want to be there.
Review: THE BROWN SUITE, Richmond Theatre
It's not often that Richmond Theatre plays host to a world premiere: Blacbrik's Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh's first long-form dance production The Brown Suite makes a stylish splash before embarking on a nationwide tour.
Review: PARSIFAL, Royal Ballet And Opera
Corruption, redemption, lies.
Review: HAM, Soho Theatre
Feminist theatre duo Hotter Project don’t want you to take their veganism-themed riff on Hamlet too seriously.
Review: DE PROFUNDIS, The Coronet Theatre
The Berliner Ensemble returns to The Coronet Theatre to present a solo show that charts the cruelty of men.
Review Roundup: Richard E. Grant & Christine Baranski in HAY FEVER
The eccentric Bliss family – Judith, a recently retired actress, David, a self-absorbed novelist, and their two unconventional children – live in a world where reality slides easily into fiction.
Review: PASTORAL, Barbican Theatre
“A lot of dance is Disneyfied.
Review: HAY FEVER, Starring Christine Baranski & Richard E. Grant
There is a reason why Noël Coward's comedies are still being revived a century after they were written: his rapid-fire dialogue, brimming with vigour and wit skewered the British class system and created vibrant comedy that still resonates today.
Review: BULL, Park Theatre
Deafinitely Theatre reiterate that creative captioning and BSL integration don’t only make theatre more accessible, they can also be brilliant artistic choices.
Review: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINA WOOLF?, Starring Gillian Anderson & Billy Crudup
Actors start your engines.
Review Roundup: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, Starring Gillian Anderson & Billy Crudup
Critics weigh in on Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson's electric George and Martha in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at @sohoplace.
Review: EXTREMISM,The Cockpit Theatre
Anders Lustgarten’s play may have been written in 2017, but its core subject could be lifted off today’s newspapers.
Review: MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG, Watermill Theatre
If you're in the mood for a cosy crime play in a cosy theatre this autumn, Murder Before Evensong will more than suffice.
Review Roundup: James Graham's New Play, THE STANDARD OF LIVING
Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear stars as John Maynard Keynes, the radical economist and member of the influential Bloomsbury Group who became the singular driving force behind arts funding in Britain and built a new and fairer financial model, that ultimately helped reshape the Western World in th
Review: JERKER, Waterloo East
An early tableau in Robert Chesley’s 1986 play Jerker involves a character masturbating to a generic message on his answering machine.
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