Saint Joan Tim Hochstrasser 13/04/2026Productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw are fairly rare these days. Like Haydn in classical music, he has been...
A Doll’s House Rivka Jacobson 10/04/2026Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House has long stood as a landmark of modern drama, its famous door slam signalling a...
Reviewer's Rating Flyby Julie Peakman 10/04/2026It is good to see so many new musicals at the Southwark playhouse and this is no exception. We are...
Inter Alia Wilder Gutterson 10/04/2026In Inter Alia, playwright and former lawyer Suzie Miller returns to the legal world she explored in Prima Facie, this...
Copenhagen Tim Hochstrasser 09/04/2026 I was enthralled by the original 1998 production of this play that sustained so many levels of intellectual debate...
Lifeline Richard Voyce 04/04/2026There are some genuinely effecting moments in Lifeline which has just opened at Southwark Playhouse’s Elephant, but when it comes...
Kinky Boots Lara Inglis-Jones 03/04/2026Few musicals arrive carrying the weight of expectation that Kinky Boots does. Based on the 2005 British film of the...
Reviewer's rating Edward II Jad Adams 03/04/2026Edward II is a bad king. He is not ‘bad’ because he is cruel and tyrannical like his father but...
Reviewer's Rating The Crucible Alina Bottez 02/04/2026The Crucible is a 1961 opera written by American composer Robert Ward (1917-2013) on a libretto by Bernard Stambler. It...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Olivia Hurton 02/04/2026The best antidote to boredom is love—or reading. When military adventurer Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published his epistolary novel Les...
