English National Ballet dancers in Balanchine’s Symphony in Three Movements in Rhythm Riot at Sadler’s Wells. Photo by ASH
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET: RHYTHM RIOT at Sadler’s Wells

The reviews are in for English National Ballet’s Rhythm Riot, the triple bill that opened the company’s season at Sadler’s Wells on 24 September. Artistic director Aaron S.

The company of The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media) at New Diorama Theatre. Photo by Alex Brenner
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: THE FIRST YEAR (OF THE GAZA GENOCIDE IN THE MEDIA) at New Diorama Theatre

The reviews are in for The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media), BÉZNĂ Theatre’s documentary piece at New Diorama Theatre, which examines how UK news outlets reported the twelve months from 7 October 2023.

Munya Chawawa as Bottom with members of the company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chichester Festival Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre is ending its main-house season with a rave, and the reviews are in for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which opened on 25 September.

Priyanga Burford as Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan in a small and quiet light. Photo by Marc Brenner
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT at the Orange Tree Theatre

The critics have been to Richmond for a small and quiet light, Stephanie Street’s play about Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, the Special Operations Executive wireless operator sent into occupied France in 1943.

Gillian Anderson as Martha and Billy Crudup as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at @sohoplace. Photo by Johan Persson
Upcoming and New Shows

First production photos: Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are seen on stage as Martha and George for the first time, in production photographs from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? released on the day of its press night at @sohoplace.

Paddington with members of the original West End company of Paddington The Musical at the Savoy Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
Theatre News

Paddington The Musical opens its new company's final dress rehearsal to a charity prize draw

The producers of Paddington The Musical have put 130 pairs of seats for the new company's final dress rehearsal at the Savoy Theatre on 28 October into a £10 prize draw, with the proceeds going to the children's charity…

Natalia Osipova as Lydia Lopokova in The Standard of Living at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Photo by Manuel Harlan
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: THE STANDARD OF LIVING at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The reviews are in for The Standard of Living, James Graham’s new play about the economist John Maynard Keynes, which opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 29 September.

Basil and Manuel square up among the diners at Faulty Towers The Dining Experience. Photo by That’s Up
Theatre News

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience heads for its 4,000th West End performance in a 30th-anniversary year

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience will play its 4,000th West End performance on 22 January 2027, opening a year that also brings 15 years in London and 30 since the show began in Brisbane.

Artwork for The Wind in the Willows at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, showing Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger in a red motor car on a snowy riverbank
Cast Changes and Announcements

Kingston's Rose Theatre casts The Wind in the Willows for Christmas

Julian Hoult will play Toad and Kingdom Sibanda will play Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, the Rose Theatre's world-premiere Christmas show, which runs in Kingston upon Thames from 25 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.