London theatre reviews

It is worth saying straight off that Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s epic work of historical agitprop, ‘Emilia’, had one of the most enthusiastic crowds I’ve seen at the Globe – whoops, cheers, belly laughs, a standing ovation, you name it, it got it…

Prepare the foot fuel device, the Star Seekers are GO! Cue the stamping of dozens of little feet, manically intent on helping to launch a rocket…

Directed by Dominic Shaw, Alex Oates's story of a teenager who gets sucked into the world of online drug-trading is the very first play to be (aptly) funded by Bitcoin investments. It focuses on Bruce, an unlikely tech genius from Tyneside…

The already gloriously OTT tale of Audrey II, the rampaging man-eating plant, and those unlucky enough to fall into her feeding range gets an extra twist in Maria Aberg’s exuberant open-air production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’…

It’s odd not being fully seen, isn’t it? ‘Homos, or Everyone in America’ is staged in-the-round, with the audience sat right on the edge of the performance space…

Brian Friel’s 1979 play ‘Aristocrats’ has a distinctly Chekhovian ring to its set up…

Tom’s daughter has been missing for six months – and counting. Desperate for solace, Tom hires an escort who bears an uncanny resemblance to his daughter…

One of the best ever high school movies, given a musical makeover by Lin-Manuel Miranda? OMG! But ‘Bring It On’ gets a notably low-key UK premiere in this fringe production by the British Theatre Academy…

Few plays seem less likely candidates for a radical queer rewrite than 'The Importance of Being Earnest’, the latest of Oscar Wilde’s works to be exhumed by Dominic Dromgoole’s Classic Spring company…

For the best part of 400 years, ‘Othello’ been treated as a tragedy about a black man, Othello, driven out of his mind by the racist scheming of his supposed friend, Iago…

From off-west end to musicals and the big openers, here are the shows that got our critics talking this month