The Mystery of Irma Vep. A Penny Dread Julie Peakman 12/12/2025Everything in this comic Gothic horror is over the top, with flashes of every spooky horror film you have ever...
Daniel’s Husband Tim Hochstrasser 10/12/2025This production is nothing if not stylish. As you wait for the play to commence, you have to admire the...
Kenrex Wilder Gutterson 09/12/2025London stages have recently seen a wave of masterful one-person shows—from Sarah Snook’s twenty‑plus characters in The Picture of Dorian...
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...
La Rondine (final 1921 version) Tim Hochstrasser 07/12/2025Puccini’s La Rondine (The Swallow) exists in three versions, with the final one the least well known, thanks to the...
Strings of Brilliance: Pavel Å porcl and the ECO Ensemble Tim Hochstrasser 02/12/2025Holy Sepulchre Church is the National Musicians’ Church, and therefore a very appropriate venue for the final event in the...
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...
Murder at Midnight Julie Peakman 26/11/2025A Christmas homecoming brings a bloodbath to a London home in this knockabout dark farce – it is ‘Knives Out’...
Porn Play Olivia Hurton 24/11/2025Why now? This is the question any theatre must confront when programming a new play. Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play—now sold...
Jobsworth Tim Hochstrasser 22/11/2025Transitions from Edinburgh to London are very common these days, but not so easy to bring off. A short-form bravura...
