London Theatre Reviews

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London Theatre Reviews

Phil Corbitt as Colin jabs a finger at Sarah Belcher as Deborah in All at Sea at Live Theatre, Newcastle. Photo by Von Fox Promotions
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Review Roundup: ALL AT SEA at Live Theatre, Newcastle

The reviews are in for All at Sea, Alison Carr’s new play at Live Theatre in Newcastle, which had its press night on 29 September.

Harris Beattie and Sarah Chun as the young lovers in Mthuthuzeli November’s Fools for Northern Ballet. Photo by Emily Nuttall
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Review Roundup: NORTHERN BALLET: THREE SHORT BALLETS at the Linbury Theatre

The reviews are in for Three Short Ballets, Northern Ballet’s annual visit to the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Ballet and Opera, which opened on 29 September with a gala in tribute to the philanthropist Aud Jebsen.

Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Parsifal, holding the swan, in Evgeny Titov’s production at the Royal Opera House. Photo by Marc Brenner
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Review Roundup: PARSIFAL at the Royal Opera House

The reviews are in for Evgeny Titov’s new production of Parsifal, which opened at the Royal Opera House on 1 October with the company’s music director, Jakub Hrůša, in the pit.

The seven dancers of Pam Tanowitz Dance in mid-air in Pastoral. Photo by Maria Baranova
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Review Roundup: PAM TANOWITZ DANCE: PASTORAL at the Barbican Theatre

The reviews are in for Pastoral, the hour-long piece that Pam Tanowitz and her New York company brought to the Barbican Theatre for its UK premiere on 1 October.

The cast of the touring production of Barnum. Photo by Pamela Raith
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Review Roundup: BARNUM at the New Wimbledon Theatre

The touring revival of Barnum has reached the New Wimbledon Theatre, and the London reviews are in. This is the Watermill Theatre production, directed by Jonathan O’Boyle with choreography by Oti Mabuse, now out on the…

Gillian Anderson as Martha and Billy Crudup as George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at @sohoplace
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Review Roundup: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at @sohoplace

The reviews are in for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Marianne Elliott’s in-the-round revival of Edward Albee’s 1962 marriage-as-bloodsport, with Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup as Martha and George and Josh Dylan…

Dov Citron in Animal Farm: As Witnessed by Moses the Raven at Barons Court Theatre
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Review Roundup: ANIMAL FARM: AS WITNESSED BY MOSES THE RAVEN at Barons Court Theatre

The notices for Animal Farm: As Witnessed by Moses the Raven are kinder to the performer than to the production.

Paul Dennison as JR and James Lee as Bert in Jerker at Waterloo East Theatre
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Review Roundup: JERKER at Waterloo East Theatre

The reviews are in for Jerker, Robert Chesley’s 1986 two-hander, which has opened at Waterloo East Theatre in a production marking the play’s 40th anniversary.

Richard E. Grant as David Bliss and Christine Baranski as Judith Bliss in Hay Fever at Wyndham's Theatre. Photo by Marc Brenner
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Review Roundup: HAY FEVER at Wyndham’s Theatre

The reviews are in for Hay Fever, Emily Burns’s revival of Noël Coward’s 1924 comedy, in which a family of incorrigible show-offs invite four guests for a country weekend and then make their lives a misery.