Review: TOSCA Royal Opera Houseby Franco Milazzo - July 02, 2024
Fronted by some fresh faces, Jonathan Kent’s cinematic take on the Puccini masterwork Tosca returns for its seventeenth run at Covent Garden. ...
Review: MANIKINS: A WORK IN PROGRESS, CRYPTby Franco Milazzo - July 02, 2024
Deadweight Theatre’s The Manikins: A Work In Progress is many things. It is interactive. It is intimate. It is thought-provoking. And, despite the misleading title, it has a polished concept that leaves its audience pondering long after the show ends....
Review: THE NEXT GENERATION FESTIVAL - RAMBERT SCHOOL, Royal Opera Houseby Matthew Paluch - July 02, 2024
The Next Generation Festival continues at the Royal Opera House with Rambert School. The programme includes six new commissions for the third-year, graduate students, and the restaging of three Akram Khan works for the second-years....
Review Roundup: Did The Latest Revival of STARLIGHT EXPRESS Impress The Critics?by Aliya Al-Hassan - July 01, 2024
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express has now opened in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre....
Review: STARLIGHT EXPRESS, Troubadour Theatreby Aliya Al-Hassan - July 01, 2024
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express is possibly one of the world's most bizarre musicals-yes, even more so than Cats. A child's dream-like world where trains compete for races and for each other, all set on roller skates. And yet, this 1984 musical's latest revival will make a new generation fal...
Review: HAMILTON, Birmingham Hippodromeby Laura Lott - July 01, 2024
It's a testament to Lin-Manuel Miranda's almost perfect show that even with some performance issues, Hamilton is still a stunning and moving experience. Its impact isn’t diminished even after several viewings, and its themes of love, grief, ambition, freedom, forgiveness and family are always resona...
Review: BUCKET LIST, New Wimbledon Studioby Aliya Al-Hassan - July 01, 2024
Bucket List is the first play from Show Don’t Tell Productions, a company dedicated to new writing, recently founded by postgraduate creative writing students at Oxford University....
Review: DEBUT SOUNDS: SOUND IN MOTION, Queen Elizabeth Hallby Matthew Paluch - June 28, 2024
Debut Sounds: Sound in Motion is the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual concert showcasing the LPO’s Young Composers. The concept sees five composers and eight choreographers collaborating to create the final works shown, with the music played by musicians from the LPO Foyle Future Firsts Devel...
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL, Wyndham's Theatreby Abbie Grundy - June 26, 2024
Following a sold-out run at the Donmar Warehouse, Next to Normal arrives at Wyndham's Theatre....
Review: THE NEXT GENERATION FESTIVAL: BUNDESJUGENDBALLETT, Royal Opera Houseby Matthew Paluch - June 26, 2024
The Next Generation Festival continues at the Royal Opera House with two performances by the BundesJugendBallett AKA German National Youth Ballet. The group was founded by Hamburg Ballet director and chief choreographer, John Neumeier in 2011, and has been directed by Kevin Haigen since its inaugur...
Review: SURRENDER, Arcola Theatreby Niamh Jones - June 26, 2024
A woman’s story is a valuable thing, the trials of experience typically being viewed as under discussed even within modern literature. Amongst these trials are the very real challenges that come with raising a baby, especially when a single parent....
Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, Regent's Park Open Air Theatreby Kat Mokrynski - June 28, 2024
The Secret Garden, originally published as a children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett in the early 1900s, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled and angry 10-year-old girl who is brought from her home in British India to Yorkshire after surviving a cholera epidemic that kills not only her paren...
Review: THE DAO OF THE UNREPRESENTATIVE BRITISH CHINESE EXPERIENCE, Soho Theatreby Josh Maughan - June 26, 2024
From the minute Daniel York Loh finished his opening monologue in Kakilang’s The Dao of the Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience, I knew this would be a piece of theatre that wouldn’t allow me to remain comfortable, drift off or stop questioning my own beliefs for a second....
Review: LEA SALONGA: STAGE, SCREEN & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Theatre Royal Drury Laneby Franco Milazzo - June 25, 2024
With a cry of “honey I’m home!���, international musical theatre icon Lea Salonga returns to the stage that launched her career over three decades ago....
Review: UNCANNY: I KNOW WHAT I SAW, Theatre Royal Drury Lane and On Tourby Cindy Marcolina - June 26, 2024
Back in 2021, Danny Robins spoke to the void in the shed in his garden asking “Do ghosts exist?”. The world of paranormal podcasts never was the same. People were quick to join in online, sending reports and building a network of experiences, lifting the series to a cult media of sorts. Robins went ...
Review: THE CONSTITUENT, The Old Vicby Aliya Al-Hassan - June 26, 2024
Matthew Warchus' production focuses on a single back-bench MP trying to balance help and professional distance with her increasingly unstable constituent....
Review: MY FATHER'S FABLE, Bush Theatreby Cheryl Markosky - June 25, 2024
If you're after tension, you'll find it aplenty in Faith Omole's new play at the Bush Theatre....
Review: ACROBATIC SWAN LAKE, Sadler's Wellsby Franco Milazzo - June 24, 2024
Zhang Quan’s Acrobatic Swan Lake is so much more than its title suggests. The show originated in China in 2004 and, in the intervening decades, has travelled the world and was updated in 2019 under director Yan Hongxia. As choreographer and artistic director, Quan has created a work which seamlessly...
Review: THE MARYLIN CONSPIRACY, Park Theatreby Cindy Marcolina - June 29, 2024
The production is frankly unnecessary, too long, and way too slow for what it really is. The characters (publicist Pat Newcomb, actor Peter Lawford and his wife Patricia Kennedy, Marilyn’s psychiatrist and his spouse, her physician, and her housekeeper) go around in circles like Masterson’s revolvin...
Review: HEDDA GABLER, Glasgow Botanic Gardensby Natalie O'Donoghue - June 22, 2024
Recently married and just returned from her honeymoon, Hedda ought to be looking forward to a life of security and domestic bliss – but something isn’t right. Happiness seems entirely out of her reach....
Review: THE BECKETT TRILOGY, Coronet Theatreby Alexander Cohen - June 21, 2024
Persevere with its mercilessness and you will be richly rewarded...
Review: THE NEW GENERATION FESTIVAL - THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL, Royal Opera Houseby Matthew Paluch - June 20, 2024
The Next Generation Festival at the Royal Opera House continues with the first outing for The Royal Ballet School's annual performance dates...
Review: SOME DEMON, Arcola Theatreby Cindy Marcolina - June 20, 2024
Laura Waldren lifts the veil off an eating disorder unit. While the characters try hard to cope with an alienating structure that fails many of its patients, Waldren examines institutional callousness and human failure. Chosen from a staggering 1,468 scripts, Some Demon it’s an excellent pick. Thoug...
Review Roundup: Did KISS ME, KATE Delight the Critics?by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 19, 2024
A new production of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, starring Adrian Dunbar and Broadway Royalty and Tony Award Winner Stephanie J. Block, making her West End debut, has now opened....
Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Shakespeare's Globeby Alexander Cohen - June 19, 2024
Jude Christian's new production playfully inverts Shakespeare's misogyny...
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