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Review: PUNCH, Young Vic
Based on the memoir of Jacob Dunne, Punch is the sobering true story of the tragic and rippling consequences of a single punch thrown on a night out. ...
Review: ROMEO AND JULIET, Royal Ballet And Opera
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet continues to enjoy endless popularity, this being its third run by the Royal Ballet since 2019, but when the results are as good, there’s no reason why not. The depth and quality in the ranks was evident as the cast relished the challenges of the Covent G...
Review: JASMIN VARDIMON: NOW, Sadler's Wells East
With NOW standing for many nows, thens, nowheres, future nows, past nows, and present nows, Jasmin Vardimon offers up revisited classic choreography fused with new material to create a beautiful and intense way to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary. Offering a window into the world through mov...
Review: TWICE-BORN; SCOTTISH BALLET, Sadler’s Wells
Scottish Ballet return to Sadler’s Wells with a triple bill. One film, and two live pieces. All of the work is contemporary dance based, and acts as a vehicle for the company dancers to show off their well honed, dance capabilities. I wonder if a classical piece could have balanced things out and ...
Review: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, Birmingham Hippodrome
The current UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has several well-known names attached to it - Ore Oduba, Liam Fox and Charlie Brooks all feature - but there's no denying that the star of the show is the car itself. Part polished wood, part shining steel and fully extraordinary, Chitty enchants audien...
Review: EDWARD II, Swan Theatre
'I'll bandy with the barons and the earls, and either die or live with Gaveston.' There has been much conjecture over the centuries as to the true nature of Edward II’s relationship with Piers Gaveston; were they friends, committed partners, or something in between? It’s not something for which ...
Review: MACBETH, Lyric Hammersmith
The production checks off each convention you might think belongs to non-Jamie Lloyd contemporary theatre one after the other. Swanky set? Tick. Random handheld microphone that’s used once? Tick. Eccentric spin on a classic protagonist? Tick. One excellent visual display that re-establishes a recu...
Review: PICTURE YOU DEAD, Theatre Royal Brighton
Local Brightonian legend Peter James brings yet another slick adaption of his Roy Grace novella series to the stage on a six-month UK Tour....
Review: ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, Park Theatre
The play before Nick Payne hit big with Constellations, fails to ignite...
Review: MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY, Soho Theatre
From the day she was born, Temi Wilkey has been destined to perform. This is made clear from her grand entrance into Soho Theatre Upstairs, dressed in a gorgeous and frilly red dressing gown that she slowly removes to reveal her bright pink outfit underneath as the audience cheers. Main Character En...
Review Roundup: THE SCORE, Directed by Trevor Nunn
Legendary stage and screen actor Brian Cox stars as Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton’s new play, The Score, originally presented at the Theatre Royal Bath....
Review: DEEPSTARIA, Sadler's Wells
A work that uses the darkest of dark sets to shed light on the possibilities inherent in creative work, right here, right now...
Review: ALTERATIONS, National Theatre
Michael Abbensetts was the first Black writer to have a series commissioned by the BBC: the groundbreaking Empire Road, which had an almost entirely Black cast and crew. The Guyanese writer's work has been largely forgotten, so it seems appropriate that the National Theatre, with its important Blac...
Review: SON OF A BITCH, Southwark Playhouse
Marnie never chose to be a mum. She loves her 4-year-old and would die for him, but he’s not what she expected him to be. When she’s filmed calling him a see-you-next-Tuesday on a plane back from Dubai, the video immediately goes viral. With her lowest moment immortalised for everybody in the wo...
Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE, Golden Goose Theatre
Ibsen's classic tale of the issues surrounding a mother's responsibilities comes to South London...
Review Roundup: THE LAST LAUGH at Noël Coward Theatre
Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a brand-new laugh-a-minute play which re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's all-time greatest comedy heroes – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse....
Review: THE LAST LAUGH, Noël Coward Theatre
Homage to much-loved comedians and their deceptively dangerous art...
Review: A KNOCK ON THE ROOF, The Royal Court
“Sieged land besieges you” Gazan mother Mariam confides in us in A Knock On the Roof. Her strained humanity is splayed front and centre of Khawla Ibraheem’s psychologically wrenching one woman show....
Review: IL TROVATORE, Royal Ballet And Opera
An animated revival of Adele Thomas’s 2023 production, Il Trovatore strays from realism and instead focuses on a symbolic reading of this dark and gritty opera. With macabre medieval costumes, eery effects and a brilliant cast, it’s an unnerving experience....
Review: THE SCORE, Starring Brian Cox
Transferring from a successful run in Bath a few years ago, Oliver Cotton wants to marry politics and art to work his way up to the encounter between an ageing Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick II of Prussia. The marketing makes it out to be an explosive meeting between church and state, between a...
Review: CRUEL INTENTIONS, New Wimbledon Theatre
There’s nothing better than theatre that truly surprises you. While Cruel Intentions didn’t teach me anything new about the world around us, it certainly advocates for the place of Jukebox musicals within the theatre landscape. If nothing else, book a ticket to see some top-class performers belt...
Review: PHANTOM PEAK: JONACON, Canada Water
In something of a quiet revolution, Phantom Peak has clambered its way to join the best atop the immersive theatre pile - an impression that its latest season fails to dismiss....
Review: PRIDE & PREJUDICE (*SORT OF), Richmond Theatre
How many ways can you re-tell Jane Austen? Isobel McArthur continues to prove it is more than possible to stage a show bursting with silliness, satire and the sharpest wit without losing the essence of Austen's beloved work....
Review: HAMLET, Starring Luke Thallon
What do Shakespeare and James Cameron have in common? Before Rupert Goold took hold of the Bard’s tragic masterpiece, the answer would have been ‘nothing’. The soon-to-be artistic director of the Old Vic returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company after 14 years to offer a blockbuster Hamlet. Els...
Review: TRASH!, Peacock Theatre
If ever a show was deserving of an exclamation mark, it is the crash-bang-bang-bang-wallop Trash!...
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