Boys in the Buff Richard Voyce 21/12/2025Christmas has come early — and what a treat. Boys in the Buff, at Kennington’s Golden Goose Theatre, is the...
Messiah Olivia Hurton 14/12/2025Smith Square Hall is one of those buildings that you catch sight of as you pace down Millbank and wish...
Ariodante Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2025Without Tunbridge Wells, there would be no Ariodante. Depleted by financial worries and the intrigues of his rivals, Handel snuck...
A Christmas Carol Elliot Stoszek 08/12/2025It is once again that time of year when A Christmas Carol returns to the stage, its ghostly tale reminding...
Stick Man (Children Theatre) Rivka Jacobson 08/12/2025I attended Stick Man, based on the ever-popular book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, together with 3½-year-old Marlow. Like...
Boogie on the Bones Olivia Hurton 08/12/2025In darkest Marylebone a revolution is brewing. Within Theatre, the Slavic theatre company made up of professional actors with personal...
The Death of Arthur: Tennyson and In Memoriam Olivia Hurton 06/12/2025There is still no better companion for indulging in misery and finding consolation than a copy of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s...
HMS PINAFORE René Weis FRSA 06/12/2025This fizzing revival production of Gilbert’s and Sullivan’s 1878 break-through operetta HMS Pinafore has the audience spellbound from the start....
Paddington – The Musical Richard Voyce 03/12/2025Paddington is the best British family musical of the twenty-first century so far. I thought long and hard before saying...
David Copperfield Tim Hochstrasser 27/11/2025I confess I often approach Christmas theatre in London with a touch of dread, as a reviewer who is mostly...