Reviews
Reviewing is at the heart of what we do. Here you’ll find all the reviews that our wonderful team have written. If you want to find something more specific, why not pick a genre of show instead from the menu.
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Review: Ian Smith: The Foot Spa Is Half Empty, Soho Theatre
A brilliantly inventive hour of well-observed stand-up, delivered with engaging energy and great comic timing.
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Review: Sunny Afternoon, New Wimbledon Theatre
Not to be confused with Kinky Boots (despite the similar logos), Sunny Afternoon kicks its tour off in the land of its birth, although the launch is an unsteady one.
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Review: Wicked Witches Panto – For Adults! Pleasance Theatre
The classic panto format is turned on its head in this queer extravaganza – a fierce, delightfully camp and clever retelling of the story of the Witches of Oz.
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Review: Pressure 3, Playhouse East
A fun night, whether you’re interested in the mechanics of theatre or simply enjoy watching well-made, emotionally charged stories.
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Review: Opera Highlights, Traverse Theatre – Edinburgh
For anyone tempted to think of opera as stuffy, remote or inaccessible, this production shows we might all have opera-sized feelings, even when trying to give a professional veneer at the office party
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Review: Hysteria, Golden Goose Theatre
A story needing to be told that, with some refinement and greater character exploration, has great potential.
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Review: The Three Bears, Half Moon Theatre
A subversive, but joyfully anarchic remix of the Goldilocks story, celebrating chosen families through inventive physical comedy, tender chaos and theatrical flair.
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Review: Instructions on How to Be Alone, Centre 151
Through a young person’s crisis, this show points out how our current systems fail to deliver critical mental health support with character and wicked irony - it just needs to breathe.
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Review: The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Polka Theatre
A show of two halves that initially struggles to leave the pages of the book, but ultimately takes off, scatterings sparks of exciting, imaginative colour and puppetry.
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Review: All My Sons, Wyndham’s Theatre
An impeccable and emotionally affecting adaption of Miller’s classic