Sherlock Holmes, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - gleefully madcap and unashamedly cerebral Rachel Halliburton Sat, 05/16/2026 - 11:44 Joshua James p…
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe review - a riot of crowd-pleasing absurdity Rachel Halliburton Fri, 05/01/2026 - 11:25 ★★★★ A M…
In the Print, King's Head Theatre - a moment that changed the newspaper industry for ever Rachel Halliburton Wed, 04/22/2026 - 09:58 ★★★ IN THE …
Åukasz Twarkowski's production dazzles without illuminating It's truly thrilling to see the Barbican embracing big concept long-form theatre again, seeking out productions that are as con…
James Graham's play transfixes the audience at every stage For the first part of Punch it feels as if you're riding a roller coaster, watching the world speed and loop past as you see it fro…
A visually virtuoso work with the feel of a gripping French TV drama So often the focus " in the coverage of a royal wedding " is the story of the woman wearing the bridal dress. While every…
The actors skilfully evoke the claustrophobia of family members trying to fake togetherness The Gathered Leaves is set on the tectonic plates of a middle-class family reunion, in which three…
Emma Pallant and Katherine Pearce are formidable opponents to Falstaff's buffoonery Shakespeare's Prince Hal may have rejected Sir John Falstaff as a symbol of his misspent youth, but the re…
This transfer from Regent's Park Open Air Theatre sustains its magic It's always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whethe…
Story of self-discovery through playing the piano resounds in Anoushka Lucas's solo show This charmingly eloquent semi-autobiographical show " which first played at the Bush Theatre in 2022…
Ince's fidelity to the language allows every nuance to be exposed A society ruled by hysteria. Lurid lies that carry more currency than reality. There's no shortage of reasons that Arthur Mi…
This wild, intelligent play is a tour de force till the doom-laden finale Ava Pickett's award-winning début play, 1536, is a foul-mouthed, furious, frenetically funny ride through the lives…
Sean Holmes' Western-style production brings a flamboyant start to the Globe's summer season Holsters, Stetsons and bluegrass music bring a distinctive flavour to this Wild West riff on Rome…
The production gets stronger in the second half as the shadows of tragedy begin to loom In 2012, an eight-hour long version of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby arrived in London a…
KT Tunstall's new score brings bite and momentum to a high octane evening Before there was Barbie: The Movie, before there was Legally Blonde, there was Clueless, the Valley Girl movie that …
Missed opportunity to create a rich drama from this intriguing historical encounter Why is it so hard to write a decent play about Bach? Maybe, in part, because there are no words that can e…
Bush's writing is as fresh as a sea breeze and as lyrical as birdsong "Who'd be a woman?... Who in their right mind would choose all that?" The question comes towards the end of a conversat…
Diamond-sharp banter and an endorphin fizz make this one of the best parties in town Over the last few months, celebrity-driven West End productions have suffered some inglorious crashes - n…
The script turns dry-as-dust diplomatic detail into nothing less than an adrenaline sport It took a while for journalists to identify the chain-smoking, Machiavellian figure who was a perman…
This latest incarnation of the show is a wild, spinning ride through different forms of reality This feels like the theatrical equivalent of being in a centrifuge " a wild, spinning ride thr…
This psychedelic mashup conveys a sci-fi-style alternate reality Hermia is a headbutting punk with a tartan fetish, Oberon looks like Adam Ant and Lysander appears to have stumbled out of a …
Oscar Wilde speaks just as strongly to the 21st century as he did to his own If Harold Pinter's work represents, as he slyly joked, the weasel under the cocktail cabinet, then Oscar Wilde…
Kubrick's humour doesn't always detonate as it should in Armando Iannucci's version Even by Stanley Kubrick's standards, Dr Strangelove went through an extraordinary evolutionary process. Af…
This 'Shrew' has many fine elements but ultimately they don't coalesce A recent Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 2.1 million people in the UK had been victims of domestic ab…
A production that feels as if it could erupt into cabaret at any moment To proclaim that you're playing gender games with Shakespeare's As You Like It seems a little like announcing that you…