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...
Ride The Cyclone Richard Voyce 23/11/2025Ride The Cyclone is a sure-fire, five-star, standing-ovation hit. You can either take my word for it and book a...
Dead Man Walking Soyoon Koo 03/11/2025Jake Heggie’s acclaimed Dead Man Walking debuts in London, demanding attention, compassion, and courage from its audience and do away...
The Line of Beauty Rivka Jacobson 03/11/2025Beauty, class, and desire intertwine in a brilliant new staging at the Almeida. Jack Holden’s stage adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s...
Mozart Requiem Lennon Hu 02/11/2025The show began with Camille Pépin’s Inlandsis. This was a magical piece, in the way that looking at a mountain...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Candide Owen Davies 24/10/2025I first saw this marvellous Welsh National Opera production of Bernstein’s gloriously messy masterpiece in Cardiff in 2023, and I...
The Maids Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2025Kip Williams’ new version of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse propels Genet’s mid-century “hall of mirrors” into...
