Review: ROMEO & HAMED, Riverside Studios
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Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Drayton Arms Theatre
Led by a wonderfully accomplished Molly Hockham as the cross-dressing Viola, everyone has a wonderful time and goes home happy to ask Alexa to play the Bee Gees.
Review: THE STORY, Starring Lorraine Toussaint and Letitia Wright
In an unintentionally timely piece of programming, The Story opens at the National a month or so after Jason Arday’s death.
Review: THE ARCHERS: LIVE AT 75, New Wimbledon Theatre
What did our critic think of THE ARCHERS: LIVE AT 75, NEW WIMBLEDON THEATRE at New Wimbledon Theatre?
Review: HOLY FOOL, Park Theatre
Rosalind Adler and Lea Sellers tackle the artistic consequences of tyranny in this sluggish, derivative, and uninteresting piece of theatre.
Review: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, Cockpit Theatre
Peter Marinker brings his own past and his own present to a man living in both timeframes
Review: A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, Donmar Warehouse
Natalya Petrovna has it all: a devoted husband, a gentle life, and she has enough wealth not to care about any of it.
Book Review: SEETHING LANE, by Jack Jewers, Moonflower Books
Jewers returns to Samuel Pepys as a subject of fiction following his debut novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys (2022).
Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER, starring Tracy-Ann Oberman, Theatre Royal Bath
What did our critic think of PRESENT LAUGHTER, THEATRE ROYAL BATH at Theatre Royal Bath?
Review Roundup: The National Theatre's ELECTRA/PERSONA, Starring Cate Blanchett
Directed and adapted by Benedict Andrews, this new play is based on both Sophocles' story of Electra from Greek mythology and Ingmar Bergman's celebrated 1966 film Persona – exemplifying The National Theatre's commitment to re-examining classic stories in new forms.
Review: ELECTRA/PERSONA, Starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss
In Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 Modernist classic Persona, an actress named Elisabeth breaks down mid-performance, becomes mute, and goes on to develop a strange codependent relationship with her nurse, Alma.
Review: BBC PROMS: ENCHANTED: ALAN MENKEN’S MUSIC FOR DISNEY, Royal Albert Hall
Alan Menken is an incredibly well renowned composer whose music has the power to transport an audience back to childhood effortlessly.
Review: YOU & IT, King's Head Theatre
What should have been a provocative journey into the ethics of AI becomes a shallow rumination on selfishness.
Review: BBC PROMS: ALTIN GÜN, Royal Albert Hall
The beauty of the BBC Proms is that you don’t always know what you’re going to get - and sometimes the most unlikely event can become one of your absolute favourites.
Review: BBC PROMS: AMERICAN CLASSICS, Royal Albert Hall
This year’s Proms season has been awash with commemorations of America’s 250th anniversary, the entire season beginning with Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” - and that piece featuring at several other points in various ways across the festival.
Review: WANTON, Southwark Playhouse
Much like Georgie Dettmer’s blockbuster debut play Are You Watching?, her sophomore effort Wanton begins and ends with childhood, and the messages women receive from a distressingly early age.
Review: CREATURE, Colab
Yes, yes: ask the average person about Frankenstein and they will speak at length about the book and the films but, if it wasn't for the theatrical adaptations, Mary Shelley's gothic classic would arguably just be collecting dust in your local library.
Review: BBC PROMS: BOND AND BEYOND, Royal Albert Hall
This celebration of the scores and songs from the James Bond's film franchise leaves us stirred, not shaken, with a surprise appearance from Lulu.
Review: YOU KILLED MY CAT, Baron's Court Theatre
The play itself is incredibly witty and sharp.
Review: A SLOW FIRE, Jermyn Street Theatre
Ultimately, it’s difficult to single out what Stephens wants to say here.
Review: BBC PROMS: CHINKEKE! ORCHESTRA WITH ANGEL BLUE, Royal Albert Hall
Having only been established in 2015, it's important to remember the impact of the Chineke! Orchestra on classical music.
Review: FOR YOUR TWENTIES, The Etcetera Theatre
Banning’s script is clear when spoken.
Review: AS YOU LIKE IT, Shakespeare's Globe
Sean Holmes at the Globe has been characterised as something of a purist, his A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado attracting praise for their Elizabethan costumes and rowdy atmosphere.
Review: TROUBLE IN TAHITI and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, Opera Holland Park
Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Weill write great tunes and tell terrific stories in brilliant debut twin productions by Opera Prelude
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: AS FAR AS WE KNOW, Summerhall
You know you’re in for a good story when you go and see a YESYESNONO production, but As Far As We Know is particularly special.
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