London theatre reviews

I didn’t really know how to feel about this classy but confusing new play by Cordelia Lynn…

Lady Macbeth is famously only the second biggest role in ‘Macbeth’. But I doubt punters here to see four times Oscar-nominated megastar Saoirse Ronan will leave disappointed…

The premise of ‘White Noise’ is an eyebrow-raising one…

Hackney Wick’s stripped-back Yard Theatre, feels like a suitable location for the UK premiere of Gracie Gardner’s similarly no-frills comedy, ‘Athena’…

A masterful two-and-a-half-hours of thrilling political theatre.

Yes, Globe! This banging little production by four actors, two directors and the theatre’s first three writers-in-residence since Big Will Himself himself is a real treat…

The incomparable Caryl Churchill’s latest play is like ‘A Christmas Carol’ sucked into some sort of strange existential vortex. 

First things first: ‘Red’ is the show that reopens Wimbledon’s much-loved Polka kids’ theatre after a walloping £8.5m refurbishment…

In another timeline, Dominic Cooke’s revival of the late Larry Kramer’s seminal 1985 Aids drama ‘The Normal Heart’ would have opened at the National Theatre in something like February, with a skeleton cast performing to a one-third-full, socially distanced Olivier…

Conor McPherson’s 2004 play ‘Shining City’ is a strange and sometimes remarkable thing…