Reviews

It would be easy to dismiss a staged version of The Exorcist as 'schlock' but I had quite a good time re-visiting the movie that formed such an early impression in me.  I saw it in Switzerland, with German...

This is the ultimate ‘Marmite’ show - anyone who’s read the 1959 Günter Grass novel or seen the 1979 movie will thrill to this enthusiastic and explosive production, as will devotees of Kneehigh’s...

I was quite distressed at missing last year's thigh-slapping panto, Roy Hudd's Mother Goose which was apparently a corker, and this year’s seasonal offer at Wilton’s Music Hall is also an extravaganza but...

The trouble with The Woman in White is that if you dissect the elements Andrew Lloyd Webber fused into the show, they’re all perfectly fine.  You could also add that Thom Southerland’s production flatters...

It takes a lot to put me in the mood for Christmas.  But if anything can, this inventive A Christmas Carol does, pulling together tip-top modern stagecraft, a venerated story, and our proudest 200-year-old...

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...