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Review: CYRANO, Park Theatre
Virginia Gay's Cyrano is billed as 'after Edmond Rostand' and is far more than a faithful adaptation of the classic tragic tale of doomed romance. In reimagining the play, Gay finds an interesting central role for herself as the overlooked and lovesick Cyrano, wishing for more from her friendship wi...
Critics' Choice: Christiana Rose's Best Children's Shows of 2024
In an evolving year of children’s theatre, the themes of climate change and sustainability reign supreme, with a lean towards immersive and inclusive theatre with excellent changes in the industry meaning prior access resources are provided as a matter of course. These resources are often made ava...
Review: THE INVENTION OF LOVE, Hampstead Theatre
Don’t be fooled. It’s midwinter and a rotund man with a big white beard is centre stage. But this is no schmultz-fest panto. It’s Simon Russell Beale as A.E Housman in Blanche Mcintyre’s sober new production of Tom Stoppard’s portrait of the artist as an old man, The Invention Of Love....
Review Roundup: NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse
Discover what the critics thought about Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at London's Donmar Warehouse. Directed by Tim Sheader, this UK premiere of Dave Malloy's musical features a stellar cast and captivating performances. Read insights from BroadwayWorld, The New York Times, and more....
Review: TREVOR NELSON'S SOUL CHRISTMAS, The Royal Albert Hall
Trevor Nelson's fifth Soul Christmas is a funky festive offering that showcases the communal power of music. Featuring a group of iconic soul and R'n'B singers doing what they do best, it was a joyous evening that lifted the Scroogiest of spirits....
Review: NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, Donmar Warehouse
“Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it’s all the same.' Conflict rages around the world, and yet normal life (with its requisite anxieties) is expected to go on regardless. This is the situation in which Tolstoy’s War and Peace characters find themselves; the Napoleonic Wars continu...
Review: THE HOLLY KING AND THE OAK KING, Battersea Arts Centre
The Holly King and The Oak King is an immersive and inclusive festive experience, collaboratively created by Battersea Arts Centre, with award-winning immersive arts creators Wild Rumpus....
Review: LETTERS LIVE, Royal Albert Hall
The seventh Letters Live performance at the Royal Albert Hall was, as always, an absolutely fantastic event. The selection of letters performed ranged from thought-provoking to heartfelt to completely ridiculous, offering something for everyone....
Review: CAROLS AT THE HALL, Royal Albert Hall
If you’re feeling more 'Bah humbug!' than 'Jingle bells!' this season, a visit to the Royal Albert Hall during its annual Christmas concert series might be just the thing to spark some holiday cheer....
Review: THE FIR TREE, artsdepot
***** The Fir Tree @artsdepot is a triumph, a beautifully engaging festive family treat and deserves plentiful and full accolades. The Fir Tree is so wonderful, we want to go back for a second visit. #TheFirTree #ChildrensTheatre #FestiveTheatre @chloenelkin...
Review: DEAD HARD, COLAB Tower
If there was an award for the most art forms smooshed into one show, COLAB’s Dead Hard could be a winner. This blend of panto, comedy, immersive and drag is a satisfying mess that somehow (just) works.
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Review: NUTCRACKER, London Coliseum
It has been some time coming. For nearly 15 years English National Ballet enthusiastically performed Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, a traditional but rather staid production with a fuzzy narrative and lacking opportunity for the company to shine....
Review: HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS, Arcola Theatre
Created by Recent Cutbacks, Hold On To Your Butts is a “shot for shot” parody of the iconic Jurassic Park film, with three actors taking on the movie in only seventy minutes (the original film has a runtime of two hours and seven minutes). Jack Baldwin and Laurence Pears take on nearly all of th...
Review: SÉAYONCÉ’S PERKY NATIVITITTIES, Yard Theatre
In Séayoncé’s latest adventure, Dan Wye’s drag ghost whisperer joins forces with her ex-lover Satan to put on an anti-Christmas TV show. Well, that’s the plan at least: before long, she discovers that she has been duped by another former amour Santa to deliver the “real” message of the s...
Review: CHRISTMAS COMES TO MOOMINVALLEY, Jacksons Lane
Adapted from Tove Jansson’s short story The Fir Tree, the creative team at Jackson’s Lane have collaborated with organisation Moomin Characters and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, to produce a festive spectacle, concerned with wonder, discovery, joy and the pure kindness of giving....
Review: CARLOS ACOSTA'S NUTCRACKER IN HAVANA, Southbank Centre
Carlos Acosta's touring show is a delightful Christmassy treat...
Review: MATTHEW BOURNE'S SWAN LAKE: THE NEXT GENERATION, Sadler's Wells
Even 30 years after he created it, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is still his defining production. Just why hasn’t he yet surpassed this masterpiece?...
Review: THE LITTLE FOXES, Young Vic
We love watching a rich family crumble on stage. From Oedipus and his mother to Chekhov’s families fractured by existential angst, to Ibsen’s split by socio-politics paradigm shifts. The Hubbards, the family of former plantation owners in Lilian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, could be the spiritu...
Review: FLAMINGO, The Hope Theatre
“Oh, that I were a man!” In the opening scene, one might worry that they have accidentally stumbled into a one-woman production of Much Ado About Nothing, as the woman on stage gives a passionate rendition of one of Beatrice’s iconic monologues. However, this quickly changes when another woman...
Review: CINDERELLA, King's Head Theatre
Written and directed by British Panto Award winner Andrew Pollard, Cinderella is given a “North London upgrade” in the King’s Head theatre’s first-ever pantomime. Maddy Erzan-Essien stars as the titular heroine, a girl who longs to find her place in the world and is forced to serve her evil ...
Review: THE MASSIVE TRAGEDY OF MADAME BOVARY, Southwark Playhouse
A valiant effort, but too long and too ambitious to achieve its aim of transforming Flaubert's tragic heroine into a comic lead...
Review Roundup: What Went Right for THE PRODUCERS at Menier Chocolate Factory?
The first major London revival of Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of The Producers is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by Tony Award-winning Patrick Marber and Broadway choreographer Lorin Latarro....
Review: OLGA KOCH COMES FROM MONEY, Soho Theatre
Do you relate to the problem of being bullied in state school for being rich and then being bullied in private school for not being rich enough? Then this might be the show for you. Olga Koch Comes From Money is an hour of stand-up in which Koch explores her own relationship with wealth in a show th...
Review: THE PRODUCERS, Menier Chocolate Factory
Good things come to those who wait. Last seen in the West End way back in 2004, starring Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, Mel Brooks' satirical work of genius, The Producers, has finally goose-stepped its way to a glorious return to the London stage at the wonderful Menier Chocolate Factory....
Review: BETTE AND JOAN, Park Theatre
Greta Scacchi and Felicity Dean are gruesomely grotesque but also wonderfully warm as the fading titans of the Golden Age of Hollywood...
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