Review: BBC PROMS: LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2026, Royal Albert Hall
“It’s tradition, Oliver.
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Review: MAN TO MAN, Starring Tilda Swinton, Royal Court
Those worrying that Tilda Swinton — the patron saint of Sunday afternoon arthouse movies and performance art best experienced through reviews — has gone mainstream should make themselves a cup of chamomile tea and relax.
Review: BBC PROMS: STRAUSS’S ‘FOUR LAST SONGS’, Royal Albert Hall
“It is difficult composing endings.
Review: FIRE FIRE, Arcola Theatre
New play that veers off in an unfortunate direction and loses much of its punch as a consequence
Review: NIGHT CITY, Southwark Playhouse, Borough
At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light.
Review: THE MCRAE/VASSILEV PROJECT, Royal Ballet And Opera
The Royal Ballet 26/27 season kicked off in the Linbury Theatre with a vehicle for Steven McRae.
Review: DON GIOVANNI, Royal Ballet And Opera
A visually compelling Don Giovanni from Royal Ballet & Opera, with a superb set by Es Devlin and memorable star turn by Aigul Akhmetshina as Donna Elvira.
Review: MERE MORTALS, Sadler's Wells
Seven years is a long time to keep a London audience waiting.
Review: TARTUFFE (REMIXED), starring Mark Rylance
Adapting classical theatre for a new audience is an exciting task and Darren Raymond has relocated Molière’s farce to a Nigerian-Jamaican family living in England.
Review: FRINGE FIX: MOTHMAN: A ROMANCE MUSICAL, Underbelly Soho Boulevard
There is something wonderfully appealing about a musical which makes absolutely no attempt to behave itself.
Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Riverside Studios
Presented as part of a rep season, Flywheel's take on the Chekhov classic works well enough to honour its source
Review: THE CHILDREN, Starring Meera Syal
The climate crisis abuses us of the notion that we’re invincible, and ultimately forces us to reckon with exactly how much time we have left on Earth.
Review: BLOODSPORT: AFTER HELEN OF TROY, Starring Michelle Dockery, Stratford East
After discussing gossip and patriarchy with Anne Boleyn in 1536, Ava Pickett keeps exploring the female spheres through the figure of Helen of Troy in Bloodsport.
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO, Starring Maria Friedman, Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre is not your typical destination for the UK premiere of a Tony-winning musical - but then Kimberly Akimbo is far from your typical musical.
Review: BIGFOOT RIPPED MY DOG IN HALF I SAW IT, Soho Theatre
Xhloe & Natasha triumphantly return to London after a sold-out month at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Review: JANE EYRE, Southwark Playhouse, Elephant
With the Wuthering Heights film adaptation this February, critics everywhere saw how easy it is to strip the Brontë sisters’ particular brand of Gothic novel down to its bare essentials, and lose everything of substance along the way.
Review: CRYBABIES: THE SCARING, Soho Theatre
Fresh from a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Crybabies trio creep into Soho Theatre with their comedy-horror offering The Scaring.
Review: FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, The Yard Theatre
Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem debuts in London on the 50th anniversary of its premiere.
Review: BBC PROMS: RATTLE CONDUCTS SCHUMANN, Royal Albert Hall
This is not easy material to perform: there is a definite sense of the man behind the music cracking open his soul in sharing his compositions.
Review: BBC PROMS: DVOŘÁK'S 'NEW WORLD' SYMPHONY, Royal Albert Hall
What did our critic think of BBC PROMS: DVOŘÁK'S 'NEW WORLD' SYMPHONY at Royal Albert Hall?
Review: FUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT, Soho Theatre
Grab a hankie, wipe away the tears and round up all your friends-with-benefits: after 12 years, pop sensations Fuccbois have called it a day and we are all invited to their final gig.
Review: THE DATING GAME, Jack Studio Theatre
A new play that mixes gentle comedy with post traumatic stress disorder
Review: HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN, OSO The Theatre On Barnes Pond
What did our critic think of HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN, OSO THE THEATRE ON BARNES POND at OSO The Theatre On Barnes Pond?
Review: BBC PROMS: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC PLAYS ELGAR AND TCHAIKOVSKY, Royal Albert Hall
Widely renowned as one of the best (if not the best) orchestras in the world, the Berliner Philharmoniker brought an elegant programme to the first of their two appearances at this year’s Proms, comprising Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.
Review Roundup: Letitia Wright and Lorraine Toussaint in THE STORY
There’s the truth and then there’s the story.
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