The top London theatre shows according to our critics

Simon McBurney’s legendary theatre company Complicité basically has two modes: clever but fairly narratively conventional takes on difficult-to-stage classics, and brain melting experimental odysseys that’ll rewire your cerebellum. Their 1999 play ‘Mnemonic’ - reimagined and redevised for 2024 - is very much in the latter camp…

‘People, Places and Things’ in 2024 is never going to be quite the same thing as ‘People, Places and Things’ in 2015…

Punchdrunk are back! A phrase that feels less momentous this time than last time as it’s barely been six months since the immersive theatre leading lights’ previous show ‘The Burnt City’ wrapped up, as opposed to the seven year gap between that and predecessor ‘The Drowned Man’.

‘Is London ready for “Slave Play”?’ run the adverts. It’s a fair question…

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…

Okay, let’s just get this out of the way. ‘Hamilton’ is stupendously good…

I was blown away by the emotional power of this show, about three generations of incomers in Sheffield’s iconic – and infamous – brutalist housing estate, Park Hill.

Most productions of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ are about life. I think Jamie Lloyd’s production of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ is about death.

‘Spirited Away’ is famously not the first of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpieces to hit the London stage in the last two years…