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Till the Stars Come Down, National Theatre, 2024
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The top London theatre shows according to our critics

Our theatre critics recommend the best London theatre of the moment

Andrzej Lukowski
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Andrzej Lukowski
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Want to know what the best theatre shows running in London right now are? Well you’ve come to the right place. This is our regularly-updated round-up of the very best stage shows, musicals plays and everything in between that you can currently see on London’s stages, from massive West End musicals that have been in place for years, to cool fringe theatre productions that’ll be around for just a few weeks. Our recommendations are all based upon reviews by our team of theatre critics.

If you’re interested in preview recommendations – of what we think will be the best shows coming up will be, although we haven’t seen them yet – check out our best shows to book for and best shows coming up this month. 

London theatre critics’ choice

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Musicals
  • Tower Bridge

Nicolas Hytner’s Bridge production is a staggering achievement, a more or less flawless take on traditional terms that’s turned into something transcendent by the staging, from Hytner and designer Bunny Christie…

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  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Shakespeare
  • Islington

As we found out to our cost last year, when Kenneth Branagh tried to bosh out a two-hour version, ‘King Lear’ is a play that resists being cut. It’s too long and too weird with too many characters to work in compacted form…

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Musicals
  • Shaftesbury Avenue

What a long, strange trip it’s been. Indie-folk musician Anaïs Mitchell’s musical retelling of the Orpheus story began life in the mid-’00s as a lo-fi song cycle…

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  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Theatre
  • Drama
  • Shepherd’s Bush

In ‘Shifters’, Benedicte Lombe’s follow-up to her Susan Blackburn Prize-winning play ‘Lava’, sparks fly and past emotions weave their way into the present…

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