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Peter Pan

Theatre: West End NEWCritics' choice
Dec 1-Jan 10 2010
The O2, SE10

If you are looking for a poignant study of childhood lost, you won't find it here. Directed by Ben Harrison and...

The Pitmen Painters

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Jan 17 2010
National Theatre, Lyttelton, SE1

When Lee Hall turned 'Billy Elliot' the film into a musical, he was careful to pay attention to the miners and their ...

Sister Act

Theatre: Musicals Critics' choice
London Palladium, W1

Bawdy and cantankerous lounge singer Dolores Von Cartier (played in the hit 1992 movie of the same name by Whoopi...

Billy Elliot the Musical

Theatre: Musicals Critics' choice
Victoria Palace Theatre, SW1

Billy's story - notwithstanding the success of Lee Hall's screenplay - has really found its medium in this musical,...

Hairspray

Theatre: Musicals Critics' choice
Until Mar 27 2010
Shaftesbury Theatre, WC2

So, lovably chubby heroine Tracy Turnblad teams up with the black kids from Special Ed to overthrow '60s racial...

La Cage aux Folles

Theatre: Musicals Critics' choice
Until Jan 2 2010
Playhouse Theatre, WC2

Like its cross-dressing central character, Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's groundbreaking musical is ageing. It...

La Clique

Theatre: Off-West End Critics' choice
Until Jan 17 2010
Roundhouse, NW1

The popular burlesque variety show opens at the Roundhouse following a successful nine-month run at the London...

Mrs Klein

Theatre: Off-West End Critics' choice
Until Sat Dec 5
Almeida Theatre, N1

Given their beliefs, it's a wonder analysts ever have children. Melanie Klein wrote on the rage and ensuing guilt of ...

War Horse

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Oct 23 2010
New London Theatre, WC2

'War Horse' is a lovely piece of family theatre, based on Michael Morpurgo's novel about a horse separated from his...

Speaking in Tongues

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Sat Dec 12
Duke of York's Theatre, WC2

In this sassy four-hander, with John Simm, Ian Hart, Kerry Fox and Lucy Cohu, writer Andrew Bovell makes full use of ...

Jerwood Upstairs: Cock

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Sat Dec 19
Royal Court Theatre, SW1

Royal Court regular Mike Bartlett offers up his new play about a guy who takes a break from his boyfriend and meets...

Endgame

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Sat Dec 5
Duchess Theatre, WC2

Purists may disapprove of the vivid emotional shades in Simon McBurney's striking Complicite production. But they...

Our Class

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Jan 12 2010
National Theatre, Cottesloe, SE1

In late 1930s Poland, anti-Semitism blooms again like a cancer out of remission; the Russians arrive and start...

The Habit of Art

Theatre: West End Critics' choice
Until Jan 24 2010
National Theatre, Lyttelton, SE1

Michael Gambon may have pulled out due to poor health but the show goes on. Richard Griffiths has been drafted in to ...

Jersey Boys

Theatre: Musicals Critics' choice
Until Oct 20 2010
Prince Edward Theatre, W1

Anyone who has yawned their way through the inanities of too many jukebox musicals must wonder how 'Jersey Boys'...

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