HMS PINAFORE René Weis FRSA 06/12/2025 898This fizzing revival production of Gilbert’s and Sullivan’s 1878 break-through operetta HMS Pinafore has the audience spellbound from the start....
Alice: Return to Wonderland Rhys John Edwards 05/12/2025 1898When I first heard that the Sherman Theatre’s Christmas show would be a reimagined Alice in Wonderland, I felt a...
Paddington – The Musical Richard Voyce 03/12/2025 1618Paddington is the best British family musical of the twenty-first century so far. I thought long and hard before saying...
Strings of Brilliance: Pavel Šporcl and the ECO Ensemble Tim Hochstrasser 02/12/2025 686Holy Sepulchre Church is the National Musicians’ Church, and therefore a very appropriate venue for the final event in the...
My Fair Lady Lennon Hu 01/12/2025 769The Mill at Sonning’s production of My Fair Lady felt like a step into the past. The theatre sits in...
Mama Goose Hafiza Butt 30/11/2025 862We do a lot of panto. Last year I think we did three. Out of all the panto we see,...
Cinderella: A Fairytale Ben Reiss 29/11/2025 1430Winter in Scotland can feel like a time when nature shuts up shop, colour leaching from the sky, trees shedding...
David Copperfield Tim Hochstrasser 27/11/2025 868I confess I often approach Christmas theatre in London with a touch of dread, as a reviewer who is mostly...
Murder at Midnight Julie Peakman 26/11/2025 861A Christmas homecoming brings a bloodbath to a London home in this knockabout dark farce – it is ‘Knives Out’...
Porn Play Olivia Hurton 24/11/2025 739Why now? This is the question any theatre must confront when programming a new play. Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play—now sold...
