London theatre reviews

Really, what is the point? Why stage this? I write with weariness, not anger…

Glance at the posters for ‘The Light in the Piazza’ and it looks like a fairly standard romantic musical; all ’50s frocks and sun-drenched skies…

As family dramas go, Caryl Phillips’s ‘Strange Fruit’ is at the epic end of the scale…

Keen-eyed readers may notice that this review of the laboriously entitled ‘Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience’ is in fact a re-review…

Ivo van Hove’s recent Barbican stage version of Luchino Visconti’s classic film ‘Obsession’ wasn’t the Belgian super-director’s best work. But this is much more like it, as he adapts Visconti’s deeply unsettling 1969 film ‘The Damned’…

Very smart robots are probably going to take over the world at some point, and much-loved lo-fi theatre troupe Little Bulb are doing their darnedest to make sure we’re all prepared…

Josh, a theatre director, and Alex, a graduate student, are a married couple in New York in their 30s, in an open relationship…

There's an invisible crush of dancing, surging people filling Theatre 503's small stage, pushing up against the three women who perform Yasmin Joseph’s ‘J’Ouvert’…

‘While the Sun Shines’ drips with innuendo – from the moment muscular American lieutenant Mulvaney (Julian Moore-Cook) blearily emerges, hungover, in his boxers from the bedroom of the Earl of Harpenden (Philip Labey)…

‘For fuck’s sake,’ mumbled a member of the Bridge Theatre crew as he sprinted past me…