Buried problems: Ishy Din’s new play finds ideological conflicts in a Middlesbrough minicab office.
OWE & Fringe
14 January 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: In Lipstick at The Pleasance
By Lauren Mooney
‘Something strange and wild emerges from familiar architecture’: Lauren Mooney reviews Annie Jenkins’ impressive debut play about female friendship.
12 January 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The War of the Worlds, New Diorama
By Harvey Bassett
‘A fast-paced tour of fake news, guided by an otherworldly ensemble of mischievous shapeshifters’: Henry Gleaden reviews Rhum and Clay’s adaptation of Orson Welles’s radio play
22 December 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Bottom at Soho Theatre
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Willy Hudson’s solo show explores ‘the arbitrariness of what we expect young gay people to have instantly figured out, before they even come out’, writes Frey Kwa Hawking
14 December 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Violet at The Bunker
4th - 15th December
By Emily Davis
‘The most millennial millennial’: Emily Davis writes on Bebe Sanders’ one woman show about an intergenerational friendship
10 December 2018
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Return to Elm House at Battersea Arts Centre
1st - 30th December
By Frey Kwa Hawking
A magical immersion in the history of Battersea: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Sarah Golding’s ‘gentle and very different Christmas show’
7 December 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Fiddler on the Roof at Menier Chocolate Factory
By Hailey Bachrach
Hailey Bachrach writes on the Menier’s wintry new staging of a musical that’s “by and for the kinds of Jews who want something to celebrate at Christmastime”.
26 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Dick Whittington at Lyric Hammersmith
17 Nov - 6 Jan
By Rosemary Waugh
Intrepid panto correspondent and newbie Londoner Rosemary Waugh reviews the bright lights of Jude Christian and Cariad Lloyd’s pantomime
25 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale at Camden People’s Theatre
By Lauren Mooney
Counting the cost of love: Lauren Mooney reviews Haley McGee’s ‘consistently hilarious and hypnotically honest’ solo show
21 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Love-Lies-Bleeding at Print Room
9 November - 8 December
By Frey Kwa Hawking
‘Quiet and considered’: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews Jack McNamara’s production of Don DeLillo’s play about a man in a vegetative state
19 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Small Place at the Gate Theatre
8th November - 1st December
By Ava Wong Davies
‘A spider’s web of complicity and guilt’: Ava Wong Davies writes about Anna Himali Howard’s theatrical investigation of the impact of colonialism on Antigua
16 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Super Duper Close Up at The Yard
13th-24th November
By Frey Kwa Hawking
‘a bit like being occasionally struck by lightning’: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Made in China’s fast-talking new show.
14 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Hadestown at National Theatre
By Alice Saville
The boy with the lyre: Alice Saville writes on Anais Mitchell’s infernal concept album-turned-musical.
11 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: vessel at Battersea Arts Centre
6th - 24th November
By Lauren Mooney
‘Let’s talk about speaking’: Lauren Mooney writes on Sue MacLaine Company’s new show, inspired by the practice of Anchoritism.
9 November 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: White Teeth at Kiln Theatre
26th October - 22nd December
By Nathan Lucky Wood
‘a play about what makes a community, and what divides it’: Nathan Lucky Wood reviews Kiln Theatre’s take on Zadie Smith’s novel