London Theatre Reviews

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.

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Becky Sanneh and Elizabeth Peace in Anansi the Spider at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Photo by Tyler Fayose
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Review Roundup: ANANSI THE SPIDER at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

The first notices are in for Anansi the Spider, the Unicorn Theatre family show now running on the picnic lawn at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

Two survivors shelter in the bunker in A Slow Fire at Jermyn Street Theatre
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Review Roundup: A SLOW FIRE at Jermyn Street Theatre

A Slow Fire, Simon Stephens’s play about two men waiting out an unnamed catastrophe in a locked bunker, has reached the Jermyn Street Theatre after a first run with Dublin’s Glass Mask company — and the critics have…

Pixie Lott as Marilyn Monroe in Who Killed Marilyn? at the Emerald Theatre. Photo: Pamela Raith
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Review Roundup: WHO KILLED MARILYN? at the Emerald Theatre

The reviews are in for Who Killed Marilyn?, the world premiere now running at the Emerald Theatre, in which Pixie Lott plays Marilyn Monroe and narrates her own life and death from beside the bed where her body was…

The company in As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe
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Review Roundup: AS YOU LIKE IT at Shakespeare's Globe

The reviews are in for As You Like It, the Globe's summer staging of Shakespeare's forest comedy of disguise and courtship, co-directed by Sean Holmes and Charlie Josephine, who also plays Orlando.

Dorothy Atkinson as Fiona Foster and Roger Allam as Frank Foster in How the Other Half Loves at the Old Vic
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Review Roundup: HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES at the Old Vic Theatre

The reviews are in for How the Other Half Loves, Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 comedy of suburban infidelity, revived in the round at the Old Vic by Phillip Breen as part of Matthew Warchus’s farewell season.

The cast of Abigail's Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre
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Review Roundup: ABIGAIL'S PARTY at the Harold Pinter Theatre

The critics have been round to Beverly’s for cheese and pineapple. Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh’s 1977 anatomy of suburban aspiration and marital warfare, has reached the West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre, following…

The company of Death Note: The Musical at the Barbican Theatre
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Review Roundup: DEATH NOTE THE MUSICAL at the Barbican Theatre

The notices are in for Death Note: The Musical, the first fully staged English-language version of Frank Wildhorn's adaptation of the Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata manga, now at the Barbican Theatre until 12 September.

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Review of Matilda The Musical

Move over, Billy Elliot. Matilda the Musical takes the trophy for Best British Musical. For years, the gong for Best British Musical has always gone to Billy Elliot, with audience and critics alike flocking back time…

EVERYMAN at the National Theatre
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Chiwetel Ejiofor in EVERYMAN at the National Theatre

The National Theatre has been under close scrutiny recently because they’re presenting the first season under the new artistic directorship of Rufus Norris who takes over from the much loved Nicholas Hytner.