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THE LION AND UNICORN THEATRE

42-44 Gaisford St, London NW5 2ED
London, NW5 2ED



Review: BLINK, King’s Head Theatre


by Clementine Scott - March 07, 2026

When it premiered at Soho Theatre in 2012, Blink was a whimsical oddity, an ode to two eccentric loners falling in love. In 2026, it takes on a darker tone, with the subtitle “a parasocial love story” foreshadowing things to come....

Review: THE WRONG THEY KNEW, Chickenshed Theatre


by Gary Naylor - March 08, 2026

Musical set in the late 1950s with a strong message for today...

Review: MARIE & ROSETTA, @sohoplace


by Clementine Scott - March 06, 2026

Her name may not be widely known today, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s musical legacy is felt down the decades. George Brant’s play about her relationship with gospel singer Marie Knight is retelling not just a woman’s life, but the birth of an entire new genre....

Review: PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK: ROMEO AND JULIET, Shakespeare's Globe


by Christiana Rose - March 07, 2026

A revival marking twenty years of a remarkable education initiative, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe demonstrates accessible theatre at its very best. Directed by Lucy Cuthbertson, this fast paced ninety minute production captures the essence of Shak...

Review: SCOTTISH BALLET - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, Sadler's Wells


by Louise Penn - March 06, 2026

Mary, Queen of Scots, is a remarkable piece of work, offering pointed comment on the place of women in the sixteenth-century court and on the mythology that casts Mary as a martyr. With striking visuals and compositions, it is an original and modern take on a familiar part of history....

Review: OUR TOWN, Starring Michael Sheen, Rose Theatre


by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 05, 2026

Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, marks the first production for Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre. After selling out across Welsh venues, this understated gem of a play moves west to give audiences of the Rose Theatre a chance to see what this exciting new company can do....

Review: BROKEN GLASS, Young Vic


by Alexander Cohen - March 04, 2026

Arthur Miller's later works are usually overshadowed by his earlier masterpieces. Is it time for reappraisal? With rising antisemitism across the world, what can Miller’s 1994 confrontation of anti-Jewish racism tell us in 2025?...

Review: THE COMFORT WOMAN, Omnibus Theatre


by Clementine Scott - March 03, 2026

Somewhere between 20,000 and 300,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during the Second World War: the so-called ‘comfort women’. Writer-performer Minjeong Kim’s one-woman show tells just one of their stories....

Review: EDUCATING RITA, Reading Rep Theatre


by Jo Caruana - March 03, 2026

The filter-like haze hits you first. Then the occasional lighting, the tiled ceiling, and the faint whiff of the 80s. But it's the arrival of two extraordinary performances – Madelyn Smedley's fizzing, fearless Rita and Julius D'Silva's weary, cynical Frank – that makes Reading Rep Theatre's Edu...

Review: SEA WITCH, Theatre Royal Drury Lane


by Laura Jones - March 02, 2026

Staged at the cavernous Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Sea Witch arrived with the sort of fanfare usually reserved for tried-and-tested crowd-pleasers. Instead, this world premiere exposed the perils of unveiling an unpolished new musical on one of the West End’s most imposing stages....

Past Shows

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that's now
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that's now
Oct 14 – Oct 18, 2025

A new play about the end of all things. In this haunting meditation on memory and mortality, two lifelong friends reunite at the end of...

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that's now
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that's now
Oct 14 – Oct 18, 2025

A new play about the end of all things. In this haunting meditation on memory and mortality, two lifelong friends reunite at the end of...

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that's now
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that's now
Oct 14 – Oct 18, 2025

A new play about the end of all things. In this haunting meditation on memory and mortality, two lifelong friends reunite at the end of...

SUNLAND
SUNLAND
Jul 28 – Jul 30, 2025

Described as a call to action in the face of climate change, SUNLAND tells the story of Charlie, Bo, Fran and Yael played by Lily...

Mums
Mums
Dec 6 – Dec 10, 2022

a wonderful tragic familya bubblegriefwaitingThey thought this moment would change everything. But does it?Mums is a poetic and delicate look into the state of grieving,...

The Players of Dieudonè
The Players of Dieudonè
Jun 28 – Jul 2, 2022

In a faraway kingdom exists a troupe of performers and their deadly ruler – King Dieudoné – an unwavering maniac who has forced them to...

NEON
NEON
Aug 6 – Aug 8, 2018

Jude, a therapist in England, meets a man named John Doe who claims to be God. He seems to be just a deluded recluse, living...

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