Meaningful and lovely: Laura Wade’s exploration of ’50s domesticity swells into something surprisingly heartfelt.
West End & Central
3 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe
Until 13 October 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
Just your average guy… until he’s not: Rosemary Waugh reviews Claire van Kampen’s Othello.
2 August 2018
Reviews • Reviews • West End & Central
King Lear at Duke of York’s Theatre
By Brendan Macdonald
Ian McKellan is exceptional in a King Lear that’s all about Lear.
1 August 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre
Until 20 October 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
American dreaming: Rosemary Waugh reviews the story of the Lehman brothers.
30 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Fun Home at Young Vic Theatre
18th June - 1st September
By Alice Saville
Intricately drawn: Alice Saville on the soaring, beautiful musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel.
27 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Exit the King at National Theatre
25th July - 6th October
By Josephine Balfour-Oatts
A disordered kingdom: Ionesco’s play is an absurd meditation on mortality.
23 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Pity at the Royal Court
12 July - 11 August 2018
By Hannah Greenstreet
Warning: this review explodes. Hannah Greenstreet grapples with Rory Mullarkey’s new play.
21 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: A Monster Calls at Old Vic Theatre
Until 25th August
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Wild and beautiful: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Sally Cookson’s moving adaptation of a story of grief.
17 July 2018
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Review: As You Like It at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
July 6 - July 28
By Nathan Lucky Wood
“It was nice while it lasted”: Max Webster’s uncomplicated production is rudely interrupted by a certain Mr Donald Trump.
15 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret at the Barbican
11-29 July 2018
By Freddie Machin
‘Blunt, sparse, and deeply seductive’: Freddie Machin reviews an evening of the music suppressed by the Nazis.
9 July 2018
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Review: The Lieutenant Of Inishmore at the Noël Coward Theatre
By Brendan Macdonald
A fictitious, dreamlike vision of Ireland: Michael Grandage’s Martin McDonagh revival loses its way amid all the blood.
7 July 2018
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Review: The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre
16 June - 3 November
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Immersive doesn’t begin to cover it: the West End transfer of Good Chance’s refugee drama is electrifying in its intimacy and honesty.
6 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The King and I at Palladium Theatre
Until 29th September
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier writes on the swooshing skirts and sumptuous spectacle of this “commendably self-aware” revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.
2 July 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Taylor Mac – A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act at the Barbican
28 - 30 June 2018
By Duska Radosavljevic
‘Theatre as a kind of utopia’: Duška Radosavljević reviews Taylor Mac as part of LIFT 2018.
29 June 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Town Hall Affair at Barbican
21—24 Jun 2018
By Maddy Costa
“Be a lady”: Maddy Costa reviews the Wooster Group’s staging of when Normal Mailer met with 1970s feminists.