Honest, first-hand reviews of the shows playing in London. What worked, what did not, who stood out and whether it is worth your evening — so you can book with your eyes open.
The notices are in for Golden Boy, Clifford Odets’ 1937 boxing drama, revived by Sam Yates at the Almeida Theatre with Josh O’Connor back on stage after a decade on screen, playing Joe Bonaparte, the violinist who…
The first notices are in for Fire Fire, John Webber’s two-hander about class and the climate, which opened at the Arcola Theatre on Friday 11 September 2026.
The reviews are in for Night City, Max Wilkinson’s new play about three people working nights in London’s gig economy, which opened at the Southwark Playhouse Borough on 10 September.
Thirty-nine years after she first played the part in the same building, Tilda Swinton is back at the Royal Court in Man to Man, Manfred Karge’s monologue about a German widow who puts on her dead husband’s clothes and…
The notices are in for Tartuffe (Remixed), Darren Raymond’s rewriting of Molière’s 1664 farce for a Nigerian-Jamaican family gathering in London for a wedding, with Mark Rylance as the bogus cleric Pastor Blake and a…
Ava Pickett’s Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy opened at Theatre Royal Stratford East on 10 September, and the reviews are in. Seventeen of them so far, and eleven give it four stars.
Mere Mortals has opened Sadler’s Wells’ autumn season, and it is San Francisco Ballet’s first London visit since 2019 — the company now under Tamara Rojo, in a seventy-minute piece choreographed by Aszure Barton to a…
Ten years after the Royal Court first staged it, The Children has returned to London at the Lyric Hammersmith, with Meera Syal, Kerry Fox and Declan Conlon as three retired nuclear physicists living just outside an…
The reviews are in for You’re So Special, Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to Playfight, running at Soho Theatre until 26 September in a production directed by Rachel Lemon.
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