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Review: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS - THE MUSICAL, Theatre Royal Bath
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Musical has its moments that inject the Hitchcockian spirit it needs, but its lack of frights and baffling structure leave it as dull as its grey sets....
Review: METROLAND LIVE: THE BOX, Soho Theatre
Walking into Metroland LIVE: The Box, audience members are greeted by a gym instructor in bright pink gym shorts, who is encouraging everyone to remove their jackets as things are going to get hot in Soho Theatre Upstairs. The man (Caden Elliott) introduces himself as Cum McGroin and has the audienc...
Review: BALANCHINE: THREE SIGNATURE WORKS, Royal Ballet And Opera
The Royal Ballet continue The Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival with Balanchine: Three Signature Works. And the triple bill is also an excuse to celebrate Patricia Neary. Neary has been setting Balanchine works for 57 years, and been a member of the RB family for a long time. This pro...
Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, The Golden Goose Theatre
New take on Wilde's classic comedy is lit up by an ensemble cast in great form...
Review: SABRAGE, Lafayette
Australian masters of variety extravaganzas Strut & Fret return to the UK with their unashamedly adult and savagely sexy new show Sabrage. Just don’t forget the first rule of cabaret....
Review: F**KING MEN, Waterloo East
F**king Men often feels like it’s bitten off more than it can chew. Buried within it are several stronger plays, each of which could thrive on London’s vibrant off-West End scene if given the space to breathe.
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Review: RACHID OURAMDANE & BALLET DU GRAND THÉÂTRE DE GENÈVE, Sadler’s Wells
The Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival continues at Sadler’s Wells with Outsider by Rachid Ouramdane & Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. It's an experience which goes something like: Yes, no. And no.
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Review: WILKO: LOVE AND DEATH AND ROCK 'N' ROLL, Southwark Playhouse Borough
Jonathan Maitland’s portrayal starts when Wilko Johnson at the height of his fame has the bad luck to be marked for death both on screen and off. As Game of Thrones’ mute executioner who lops off Eddard Stark's head, he ends up on Arya Stark's infamous list; months later, he’s given the worst ...
Review: MAN IN THE MIRROR, Golders Green Hippodrome
With fifteen years experience as a Michael Jackson impersonator and spending two hours in the make-up chair every night getting ready, you can’t fault CJ (Craig Harrison) for commitment....
Review: PLAYHOUSE CREATURES, Orange Tree Theatre
It is said that we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before. In April De Angelis's Playhouse Creatures, she celebrates five women who were clever innovators and brave pioneers of the stage at a time when female actors were openly objectified, judged and derided....
Review: THE WOMEN OF LLANRUMNEY, Stratford East
Azuka Oforka’s powerful debut play transports us to the Llanrumney sugar estate in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, in 1765, where Elizabeth Morgan (Nia Roberts) lays the law as an unwed modern entrepreneur who’s facing the failure of her crops. All of a sudden, the threat to their survival exacerbat...
Review: BBC MUSICALS NIGHT, BBC Four and iPlayer
Some diamonds in the rough, but why can't we choose for ourselves from the BBC archive?...
Review: DOUBLE ACT, Southwark Playhouse
Nick Hyde’s tragicomic Double Act uses clowning and comedy to tell the story of a young man (played by Hyde and Oliver Maynard in white face paint) who wakes up and sets off to kill himself somewhere on the South Coast. He has a few things, though, to tick off his list before he throws himself off...
Review: PLIED & PREJUDICE, The Vaults
After a sellout run in Australia, Plied & Prejudice, written by Matthew Semple and directed by Dash Kruck, is ready to booze it up in London, taking the classic Jane Austen work and turning it into a comedy in which five actors desperately try to get through the story with a few modern twists....
Review: WHAT IF THEY ATE THE BABY?, Soho Theatre
Walking into the Soho Theatre Upstairs for What If They Ate The Baby feels a bit like entering an alternate universe that’s a strange mix between the 1950s and the modern day. Audience members are greeted by a set made to look like a kitchen, with checkered floors, table and chairs and a window fr...
Review: RETROGRADE, Apollo Theatre
Ryan Calais Cameron’s tight knit three-hander cuts deeper than a meditation on money or morality....
Review: TURANDOT, Royal Ballet And Opera
With plenty of colour, masks, and a mystical ambience, Andrei Șerban’s 1984 production of Turandot feels just as fresh as ever. Paired with a stellar cast on top form, it represents a great success, all around....
Review: LYON OPERA BALLET: MERCE CUNNINGHAM FOREVER, Sadler’s Wells
The Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival continues across venues in London with the Lyon Opera Ballet presenting Merce Cunningham Forever.
Cunningham needs no introduction…yet somehow we see very little of his work performed in the UK. It comes down to the Europeans (again) giving us ...
Review: PARADISE LOST (LIES UNOPENED BESIDE ME), Battersea Arts Centre
One thought rattled around my head all night while watching this radical take on Paradise Lost: how would God react to all of this? Would Jehovah, The Almighty, Him Up There be more or less angry than he was at the original text? Would He raise a solitary finger and cast lightning down on the venue?...
Review: DULCÉ SLOAN, Soho Theatre
Dulcé Sloan, a former senior correspondent for The Daily Show, is bringing her stand-up show to London at the Soho Theatre. Unlike most comedy shows at the venue, there really is no description for her show on the site, giving it a bit of an air of mystery as audience members head downstairs to the...
Review: DEAR ENGLAND, National Theatre
Dear England dives deep into England's football culture and the pressures of success....
Review: THE TINDERSTICKS, Royal Albert Hall
Quite where The Tindersticks fit into the modern era is a bit of a mystery. The latest tour brings this band to the Royal Albert Hall for a show that celebrates their recent successes and their mellifluous back catalogue....
Review: BACCHANALIA, Hoxton Hall
After two sold-out runs at The Crypt in 2023, Sleepwalk Immersive’s Bacchanalia and the world of Thebes has returned to London, this time at Hoxton Hall. The show, directed by Sebastian Huang (Artistic Director for Sleepwalk Immersive), takes the story of The Bacchae by Euripedes and places it in ...
Review: THE WASHING LINE, Chickenshed Theatre
Horrendous events in Guyana, now almost 50 years ago, provides the subject matter that this extraordinary company carry forward by harnessing every element of the power of theatre...
Review: DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, Menier Chocolate Factory
Vampires have always had that sexy je ne sais quoi. Whether they have ever been this sexy and this funny at the same time is a different question. Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen give Bram Stoker a run for his money with their sensational adaptation of the most famous of blood-suckers. Dracula, A C...
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