London theatre reviews

Chinoyerem Odimba’s new play is a strange mix of smart understatement, poetic mysticism, and clunking scene-setting that absolutely has something to it, but feels a draft or two from being the finished deal…

Much like ‘Paddington’, ‘Mary Poppins’ is a gorgeously warm kids’ story that’s burrowed deep into the hearts of Londoners of all ages…

So in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, how did Andy stick the poster back over the hole after he’d escaped through it? 

Across a table in a bare room, Esther faces a man…

From relatively humble beginnings at the 2017 Vaults Festival, The Guild of Misrule’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal novella has become the longest-running immersive theatre show in London…

Theoretically, flipping the genders in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ sounds like a solid way of dealing with the main problem with Shakespeare’s play, namely that it’s a comedy about a man, Petruchio, who beats and gaslights his wife, Katherine, into submission…

Back in August, the Park Theatre staged Eugene O’Hare’s ‘The Weatherman’, a dour drama about sex trafficking…

There’s something unsettlingly dreamlike about Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s new take on Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’…

Look: in retrospect, a lot of things we thought were okay in the ‘90s were not okay…

Of all the weirdly high number of London theatres to open in the last year, Soho’s Boulevard has always been the most exciting prospect…