We’ll meet again: Lily Levinson writes on Kandinsky’s new show, which thoughtfully explores ‘the bleak dangers of nostalgic nationalism’.
London Theatre
29 January 2022
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Glow, Royal Court Theatre
By Hannah Greenstreet
Let there be light: Hannah Greenstreet reviews Alistair McDowall’s dazzling new play.
25 January 2022
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Freud’s Last Session, King’s Head Theatre
18th January - 12th February
By Brendan Macdonald
Talking cure: Brendan Macdonald reviews a new production of Mark St Germain’s play that imagines an encounter between Sigmund Freud and Lewis Carroll.
16 January 2022
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The 4th Country, Park Theatre
By Brendan Macdonald
Anxieties of authorship: Brendan Macdonald writes on Kate Reid’s play, which explores representations of Northern Ireland through ‘an engaging and poignant drama’.
16 January 2022
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Bluebelle, Shoreditch Town Hall (LIMF)
By Lily Levinson
‘A warm twinkle and touches of wonder’: Lily Levinson writes on Theatre Re’s ensemble fairytale.
8 January 2022
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Folk, Hampstead Theatre
18th December - 5th February
By Emily Davis
A soaring voice: Emily Davis writes on Nell Leyshon’s new play that captures ‘how it feels to sing and love singing’ through the history of folk songs.
22 December 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Holiday Sauce…Booster! (Barbican, online)
By Brendan Macdonald
‘A heady, carousing festive fantasy’: Brendan Macdonald reviews Taylor Mac’s virtual vaudeville.
20 December 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Peggy for You at Hampstead Theatre
10 December - 29 January
By Hannah Greenstreet
New writing, old tropes: Hannah Greenstreet reviews an overly reverent backward-looking take on the story of formidable literary agent Peggy Ramsay.
13 December 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Ghost Walk, New Diorama Theatre
11th-13th December
By Elete N-F
Spooky season: Elete N-F writes on Poltergeist’s audio-guided narrative walk that ‘brings life to an otherwise pretty lifeless area’.
20 November 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Wife of Willesden at Kiln Theatre
20 November - 15 January
By Elete N-F
A celebration of the community of Brent: Elete N-F writes on Zadie Smith’s ‘joyous’ contemporary adaptation of The Wife of Bath.
19 November 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Straight White Men at Southwark Playhouse
By Frey Kwa Hawking
‘I find myself wishing that this production excavated some deeper weirdness’: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Young Jean Lee’s 2014 play exploring white privilege.
17 November 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: SAMSKARA at the Yard
8th - 26th November
By Farah Najib
Lasting impressions: Farah Najib writes on Lanre Malaolu’s ‘joyful and hard-hitting’ choreographic interrogation of Black masculinity.
14 November 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Milk and Gall at Theatre 503
By Emily Davis
A difficult birth: Emily Davis writes on Mathilde Dratwa’s ‘playful and confident’ new play that brings together the personal and the political in the Trump era.
13 November 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Sessions at Soho Theatre
24 September - 2 December
By Miriam Sallon
Talking therapy: Miriam Sallon writes on Ifeyinwa Frederick’s new play that explores masculinity and depression.
2 November 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: ‘night, Mother at the Hampstead Theatre
By Mert Dilek
‘Thick realism’: Mert Dilek writes on Roxana Silbert’s dated revival of Marsha Norman’s ‘grim suicide drama’.