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: Look up at the Stars, The Hen and Chickens Theatre
Star and writer of eighties Doctor Who reunite for an impressively acted, bittersweet one-woman love letter to the golden age of British cinema.
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Review: DAD, Golden Goose Theatre
A man paces around his garden looking anxious and concerned. He’s soon joined by another man who turns out to be his estranged brother, summoned because their elderly father, who has dementia, has been missing for two days. The two…
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Review: The Yellow Wallpaper, The Bull, Wanstead
A timely return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal text.
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Review: The Turn of the Screw, Arcola Theatre
A Gothic classic ghost story reframed to jump start the dark season.
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Review: Million-Dollar Quartet, Arts at Marble Arch
Musical talent is not enough to pull off this group biopic with troubling historical omissions
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Review: Loud Mouths, Libra Theatre Café
A show about how far toxic friendships can be pushed before they become irreconcilable.
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Review: The Last Ship, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Sting’s The Last Ship sails into Drury Lane with plenty of noise, spectacle and shouting, but little heart or humour.
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Review: Private Peaceful, Wilton’s Music Hall
A beautifully crafted and deeply moving Private Peaceful, bringing one young soldier’s story of courage, loss and the futility of war vividly to life.
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Review: Brixton House’s Housemates Festival: Goodbye
Tackles a sensitive and important topic with care and whimsy.
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Review: Three Men in a Boat, Rose Theatre
Funny, energetic and winningly performed, this busy adaptation loses its way whenever it reaches for insights beyond Jerome K. Jerome’s timeless original.