Casual cruelty: Martin McDonagh’s play mixes crude colonialist satire with the trappings of a family Christmas show.
West End & Central
23 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Alternative Miss World 2018 at Shakespeare’s Globe
20th October
By Freddie Machin
‘an unrehearsed drag race explodes like a glitter bomb inside Shakespeare’s wooden O’: Freddie Machin on Andrew Logan’s radical drag pageant
22 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Wise Children at Old Vic Theatre
Until 10th November
By Francesca Peschier
Graft, grit and glitter: Francesca Peschier writes on the shifting layers of Emma Rice’s retelling of Angela Carter’s story.
15 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Inheritance at Noël Coward Theatre
By Frey Kwa Hawking
As Matthew Lopez’s gay epic transfers from the Young Vic to the West End, Frey Kwa Kawking writes on its sprawling, compassionate glory.
12 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: I’m Not Running at the National Theatre
Until 31st January 2019
By Simon Gwynn
Uncanny valley: David Hare’s satire of Labour politics might be set in the present day, but it belongs in another era.
11 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Twelfth Night at the Young Vic
By Lauren Mooney
Shakespeare as party: Lauren Mooney writes on a fantastically warm, welcoming opener to Kwame Kwei-Armah’s reign at the Young Vic.
8 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Malady of Death (La Maladie de la Mort) at the Barbican
3 - 6 October 2018
By Rosemary Waugh
The waves are rolling in or moving out: Rosemary Waugh reviews Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s latest collaboration.
6 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre
Until 19th January
By Alice Saville
Perfumed sails: Sophie Okonedo shines in the NT’s swimmingly beautiful staging of Shakespeare’s prickly love story.
2 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Salome at the ENO
Until 23rd October
By Alice Saville
Desire is everything: Adena Jacobs’ staging of Strauss’s opera is full of ponytail-slick, sensuous, striking images.
1 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: 17c at The Old Vic
Until 29th September
By Josephine Balfour-Oatts
Invisible women: Josephine Balfour-Oatts reviews Annie-B Parson’s feminist dance response to Samuel Pepys’ Diary
1 October 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Pinter Two at the Harold Pinter Theatre
6 September - 23 February 2019
By Ed Nightingale
Marriage and infidelity: Ed Nightingale reviews Jamie Lloyd’s productions of The Lover and The Collection.
29 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Memorial at the Barbican
Until 30 September 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
The common soldiers, the everyday heroes: Ava Davies reviews Alice Oswald’s elegy to the dead of the Iliad.
27 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Poet in da Corner at Royal Court
1 September - 6 October 2018
By Frey Kwa Hawking
The question of ownership: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews Debris Stevenson’s autobiographical ode to grime.
24 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Prisoner at National Theatre
Until 4th October
By J N Benjamin
Excruciating silences: Peter Brook’s drama is an exercise in painfully slow abstraction.
23 September 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Marathon at the Barbican
20 - 29 September 2018
By Hailey Bachrach
WARNING: Hailey Bachrach writes on an unpredictable look at amnesia by young international collective JAMS.