Reviews

After ‘Hamilton’ this may be the most-anticipated arrival in the West End, certainly if you believe the advance publicity.  Lauded in Sheffield with 5* reviews, Everybody's Talking About Jamie tells of...

2017 may not be London's best year for pantomime.  Rumours abound that even the ever-fresh and inventive Hackney Empire has produced an early Christmas turkey, and for up to £125 a seat at the London...

Review/Revisited: How Wicked is ‘Wicked’ @ Apollo Victoria Telling the tale of how opposite personalities Elphaba (who might become the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz) and Glinda (The Good...

Matilda Wormwood is five.  And just had her sixth birthday.   Or rather the production of Roald Dahl's children's book Matilda adapted with enormous wit by Tim Minchin this week celebrated six years at the...

Is the Playhouse becoming London’s venue of choice for American stars’ vanity projects? Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends) chose it last year for his self-written piece The End of Longing, and in 2014...

The things I know about football could be counted on the fingers of the Venus de Milo, but - apart from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, which is being turned into an opera, and maybe Bend it Like Beckham,...

Guest reviewer: David Lloyd-Davies, a real live doctor. Hoping to contribute to the ‘conversation’ about death in a time of rapid medical advancement, Jon Spooner and Chris Thorpe’s Am I Dead Yet?...

The Diary of a Nobody is one of those books you're convinced you've read, until you see it staged and realise that either you've forgotten it, or the director had a completely different idea.   In the case...

There’s a real sense of occasion at the opening night for Young Marx in the Bridge Theatre – former NT-director Nick Hytner’s £12 million baby set in a glamorous and upscale precinct around the...

It might be too early for pantomime, but it’s never too soon to see Mel Brooks’ ingenious updating of Young Frankenstein delivered as a spoof both of the horror movie genre and of the theatricality of...