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Review: NEXT TO NORMAL, Wyndham's Theatre
Following a sold-out run at the Donmar Warehouse, Next to Normal arrives at Wyndham's Theatre....
Review: THE NEXT GENERATION FESTIVAL: BUNDESJUGENDBALLETT, Royal Opera House
The Next Generation Festival continues at the Royal Opera House with two performances by the BundesJugendBallett AKA German National Youth Ballet.
The group was founded by Hamburg Ballet director and chief choreographer, John Neumeier in 2011, and has been directed by Kevin Haigen since its inaugur...
Review: SURRENDER, Arcola Theatre
A woman’s story is a valuable thing, the trials of experience typically being viewed as under discussed even within modern literature. Amongst these trials are the very real challenges that come with raising a baby, especially when a single parent....
Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
The Secret Garden, originally published as a children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett in the early 1900s, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled and angry 10-year-old girl who is brought from her home in British India to Yorkshire after surviving a cholera epidemic that kills not only her par...
Review: THE DAO OF THE UNREPRESENTATIVE BRITISH CHINESE EXPERIENCE, Soho Theatre
From the minute Daniel York Loh finished his opening monologue in Kakilang’s The Dao of the Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience, I knew this would be a piece of theatre that wouldn’t allow me to remain comfortable, drift off or stop questioning my own beliefs for a second....
Review: LEA SALONGA: STAGE, SCREEN & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
With a cry of “honey I’m home!”, international musical theatre icon Lea Salonga returns to the stage that launched her career over three decades ago....
Review: UNCANNY: I KNOW WHAT I SAW, Theatre Royal Drury Lane and On Tour
Back in 2021, Danny Robins spoke to the void in the shed in his garden asking “Do ghosts exist?”. The world of paranormal podcasts never was the same. People were quick to join in online, sending reports and building a network of experiences, lifting the series to a cult media of sorts. Robins w...
Review: THE CONSTITUENT, The Old Vic
Matthew Warchus' production focuses on a single back-bench MP trying to balance help and professional distance with her increasingly unstable constituent....
Review: MY FATHER'S FABLE, Bush Theatre
If you're after tension, you'll find it aplenty in Faith Omole's new play at the Bush Theatre....
Review: ACROBATIC SWAN LAKE, Sadler's Wells
Zhang Quan’s Acrobatic Swan Lake is so much more than its title suggests. The show originated in China in 2004 and, in the intervening decades, has travelled the world and was updated in 2019 under director Yan Hongxia. As choreographer and artistic director, Quan has created a work which seamless...
Review: THE MARYLIN CONSPIRACY, Park Theatre
The production is frankly unnecessary, too long, and way too slow for what it really is. The characters (publicist Pat Newcomb, actor Peter Lawford and his wife Patricia Kennedy, Marilyn’s psychiatrist and his spouse, her physician, and her housekeeper) go around in circles like Masterson’s revo...
Review: HEDDA GABLER, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Recently married and just returned from her honeymoon, Hedda ought to be looking forward to a life of security and domestic bliss – but something isn’t right. Happiness seems entirely out of her reach....
Review: THE BECKETT TRILOGY, Coronet Theatre
Persevere with its mercilessness and you will be richly rewarded...
Review: THE NEW GENERATION FESTIVAL - THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL, Royal Opera House
The Next Generation Festival at the Royal Opera House continues with the first outing for The Royal Ballet School's annual performance dates...
Review: SOME DEMON, Arcola Theatre
Laura Waldren lifts the veil off an eating disorder unit. While the characters try hard to cope with an alienating structure that fails many of its patients, Waldren examines institutional callousness and human failure. Chosen from a staggering 1,468 scripts, Some Demon it’s an excellent pick. Tho...
Review Roundup: Did KISS ME, KATE Delight the Critics?
A new production of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, starring Adrian Dunbar and Broadway Royalty and Tony Award Winner Stephanie J. Block, making her West End debut, has now opened....
Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Shakespeare's Globe
Jude Christian's new production playfully inverts Shakespeare's misogyny...
Review: KISS ME, KATE, Barbican Theatre
Adrian Dunbar is the starriest of a starry cast, but lacks the specific experience required to lead the show to its fullest potential...
Review: THE TRIALS AND PASSIONS OF UNFAMOUS WOMEN, Brixton House Theatre
A courtroom is a place of tradition, of cold reason rather than emotional responses. This is a fact which is highlighted in The Trials and Passions of Unfamous Women, a new play produced by LIFT, Brixton House and Clean Break, a company which works to bring the stories of women who are criminalised ...
Review: DROP THE DEAD DONKEY: THE REAWAKENING, Richmond Theatre
Starring original cast members Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson and Victoria Wicks, this new stage version sees the team are thrust back together in the world of 24-hour rolling news, social media and algorithms at a new TV station wi...
Review: THE BOUNDS, Royal Court Theatre
Written by Stewart Pringle, The Bounds takes punters to 1553, “the true Golden Age of English football”, when matches could last hours or days and rules were, though relaxed, quite severe. While people are playing in the distance, our protagonists of humble Northumbrian origins end up debating a...
Review: SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL, Dominion Theatre
After a gruelling few years of cancellations and Covid, Bill Buckhurst's production of Sister Act The Musical was first enjoyed at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2022. Having opened in March 2024 at the Dominion Theatre, a new cast continues the success of this pacy, slick and hugely enjoyable productio...
Review: A CHILD OF SCIENCE, Bristol Old Vic
Ultimately, A Child of Science offers a vivid portrayal of the intersection between scientific pursuit and human longing. It’s a testament to the extraordinary efforts behind ordinary miracles. And how the path to creating life can be as intricate and moving as the lives it aims to bring into the ...
Review: SWAN LAKE IN-THE-ROUND, Royal Albert Hall
Derek Deane’s Swan Lake has quite the reputation. First premiered in 1997 it became known for its corps de ballet of 60 swans (with freelancers hired to beef up ENB’s ranks) and then in 2010, a BBC documentary tracked its rehearsals and opening night, not always depicting everyone in the most fl...
Review: GIFFORDS CIRCUS: AVALON, Chiswick House and Gardens
Written and Directed by Cal McCrystal, Avalon is the 2024 show for Giffords Circus, a village-green travelling circus that follows the belief of ther founder, Nell Giffords, that “Art is Love.” The tents and caravans feel as though they have been pulled from a classic movie....
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