Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bridge Theatre review - Nick Hytner's hit gender-bender returns refreshedTuesday, 10 June 2025
It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the Bridge inside Shakespeare’s actual text, when Duke Theseus tells his new bride Hippolyta not to flinch when the Rude Mechanical... Read more... |
Stereophonic, Duke of York's Theatre review - rich slice of creative life delivered by a 1970s rock bandMonday, 16 June 2025
The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but Stereophonic, newly arrived at the Duke of York’s, deserves the accolade wherever it plays.It has nothing to do with the Welsh... Read more... |
North by Northwest, Alexandra Palace review - Hitchcock adaptation fails to flyMonday, 16 June 2025
Older readers may recall the cobbled together, ramshackle play, a staple of the Golden Age of Light Entertainment that would close out The Morecambe and Wise Show and The Generation Game. Mercifully, we don’t have grandmothers from Slough squinting... Read more... |
Hamlet Hail to the Thief, RSC, Stratford review - Radiohead mark the Bard's cardSaturday, 14 June 2025
The safe transfer of power in post-war Western democracies was once a given. The homely Pickfords Removals van outside Number Ten, a crestfallen now ex-PM and family mooching about, for once trying not to be on camera, it's a tabloid front page... Read more... |
The King of Pangea, King's Head Theatre review - grief and hope, but no connectionFriday, 13 June 2025
There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”. The UK equivalent of touring a nascent production in Albany and Ithaca in the hope of a Broadway... Read more... |
Miss Myrtle’s Garden, Bush Theatre review - flowering talent, but needs weedingSunday, 08 June 2025
The Bush Theatre is becoming a garden centre. Earlier this year, the venue staged Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew, which featured an abundance of plant life, and now it’s the turn of talented novelist and screenwriter Danny James... Read more... |
Fiddler on the Roof, Barbican review - lean, muscular delivery ensures that every emotion rings trueWednesday, 04 June 2025
It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a shift in surroundings might rob a show of the glitter and allure it once had.For Jordan Fein’s impassioned, magical Fiddler... Read more... |
In Praise of Love, Orange Tree Theatre review - subdued production of Rattigan's study of loving concealmentWednesday, 04 June 2025
Terence Rattigan's rehabilitation – some might almost say deification – as a leading 20th century playwright is complete. As well as academic studies, biographies and numerous highly respected revivals of his work, there is a growing clamour to... Read more... |
Letters from Max, Hampstead Theatre review - inventively staged tale of two friends fighting loss with poetryTuesday, 03 June 2025
In 2012, the award-winning American writer Sarah Ruhl met a Yale playwriting student who became a special part of her life. Out of their friendship she created Letters from Max, a 2018 book of their correspondence, then a play performed in New York... Read more... |
Elephant, Menier Chocolate Factory review - subtle, humorous exploration of racial identity and musicSaturday, 31 May 2025
This charmingly eloquent semi-autobiographical show – which first played at the Bush Theatre in 2022 – tells the story of a girl whose life growing up in a council flat is transformed by the arrival of an upright piano. Lylah – like the show’s... Read more... |
This is My Family, Southwark Playhouse - London debut of 2013 Sheffield hit is feeling its ageFriday, 30 May 2025
MOR. Twee. Unashamedly crowdpleasing. Are such descriptors indicative of a tedious night in the stalls? For your reviewer, who has become jaded very quickly with a myriad of searing examinations of mental health crises and wake up calls about the... Read more... |
The Frogs, Southwark Playhouse review - great songs save updated Aristophanes comedyWednesday, 28 May 2025
As a regular theatregoer, you learn pretty quickly that there’s no story too bizarre to work as a musical. Cannibalistic murders in Victorian London? Faking a miracle in smalltown USA? The westernisation of Japan? And that’s just Sondheim…... Read more... |
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