London theatre critics’ choice

Anne Washburn has a knack for taking the baffling rubble dump of modern America and turning it into an enchanted gothic castle…

It’s almost impossible to know where to begin with Wolfram Lotz’s ’The Ridiculous Darkness’, a sort of very very out-there postcolonial – possibly post-postcolonial – deconstruction of Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and its famous film adaptation ‘Apocalpyse Now’…

In her mad, brilliant play ‘Mr Burns’, US playwright Anne Washburn imagined the memory of an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ as the basis for an entire post-apocalyptic society…

Well, hello perfect! Great shows are rare; flawless ones happen only under a blue moon…

Musicals don’t come much more low-key, wholesome or Canadian than ‘Come from Away’…

There are ‘X-Files’ nerds in my life who have spouted a lot of crazy hyperbole about Gillian Anderson over the years. But, wowee…

Laura Wade’s very enjoyable satire ‘Home, I'm Darling’ is now settling in at its third home…

Marianne Elliott’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical comedy ‘Company’ was announced at what felt like some point in the late Cretaceous Period…

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

‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ is a burst of joy in the heart of the West End. This new British musical, transferring from the Sheffield Crucible, is the real deal…

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