London theatre reviews
Read our latest Time Out theatre reviews and find out what our London theatre team made of the city's new plays, musicals and theatre shows
‘The Worst Witch’ review
If Harry Potter can have a West End play, then Mildred Hubble can damn well have a West End play too…
Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ review
After ‘Swan Lake’, ‘The Nutcracker’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Cinderella’, another of ballet’s big beasts has received the Matthew Bourne treatment…
‘Evita’ review
Forget everything you know about ‘Evita’: this one properly rocks. Gone are the romanticised shots of sun-soaked South America, sliced out are the filler numbers clogging the score and deleted is the simpering, blonde starlet…
‘Go Bang Your Tambourine’ review
‘Go Bang Your Tambourine’ is a frustrating curio of a play…
‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ review
Outdoor theatre is a summer tradition like eating strawberries, speculating over Andy Murray’s hip and complaining about the weather (whatever the weather)…
‘Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical!’ review
The NT’s triumphantly weird new musical ‘Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear’ is adept both at delighting kids and at giving adults regular icy shivers of horror…
‘Where is Peter Rabbit?’ review
While much kids’ theatre is a triumph of imagination over budget, this overcooked mini Beatrix Potter ‘musical’ is kind of the opposite: too much stuff thrown together without enough thought…
‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ review
Talk about a well-deserved victory lap. Inua Ellams’s brilliantly vivid, funny, moving drama about the importance of barber shops to the black African and diaspora experience has played a couple of stints at the National Theatre and toured the world…
‘The View UpStairs’ review
The horrific mass shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016 filled headlines as the biggest single attack on LGBTQ+ people in US history. Far less well known is the incident it grimly superseded…
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