Intricately drawn: Alice Saville on the soaring, beautiful musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel.
West End & Central
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.
28 June 2018
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Review: One For Sorrow at the Royal Court
June 20 - August 11
By Hannah Greenstreet
Edges, borders, barbed wire: Cordelia Lynn’s bomb attack drama explores the ethics of keeping safe.
23 June 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Lady Eats Apple at the Barbican
14 - 16 June 2018
By Maddy Costa
Power zaps like an electric current… Maddy Costa reviews Back to Back Theatre, as part of LIFT 2018.
19 June 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Notes from the Field at Royal Court Theatre
13 - 23 June 2018
By Duska Radosavljevic
‘The broken among us teach us to be human’: Duška Radosavljević reviews Anna Deavere Smith’s verbatim show as part of LIFT 2018.
18 June 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: An Octoroon at National Theatre
7 June - 18 July 2018
By J N Benjamin
Defiance is at the heart of its genius: J.N. Benjamin reviews the National Theatre transfer of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play.