Reviews & News

Date: 13/03/26 Stars: 5 You spend quite a lot of this production wondering how on earth they’re doing it. Not in a sceptical way, more in the way you watch a really good magic trick. You can see everything happening in front of you – the cameras, the screens, the actors moving around the stage… Read more

Date: 11/03/26 Stars: 4 Some stories sound very simple when you explain them out loud. A woman isn’t allowed to study religious texts, so she disguises herself as a man in order to do it anyway. That’s Yentl in about ten seconds. But sitting in the theatre watching it play out, it becomes obvious fairly… Read more

Date: 9th March 2026 Stars: 3 Pretending to be a ghost sounds like a fairly easy job… Walk around the outside of a big old house after dark, circle the grounds, make enough noise to unsettle the people inside and go back to your room until the next night. Simple enough. That’s the job Joe… Read more

Date: 25/02/26 Stars: 4 A bump to the head shouldn’t unravel a life, and yet… here we are. Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind begins with Susan lying in her garden, disoriented, and from that moment on nothing feels entirely sure – reality and fantasy sit side by side, sometimes politely separated, sometimes bleeding into one… Read more

Date: 19/02/26 Stars: 4 Twenty years is a long time to live with a question mark. Little Sister opens with a disappearance that never left anyone alone and then calmly places a bloodied woman on the family doorstep, simply asking the question – what if she’s back? The story, as all good folklore seems to… Read more

Date: 11/02/26 Stars: 5 MILES. walks in with one of the biggest names in music hanging over it, and it would’ve been very easy for the show to turn into a kind of respectful tribute. A few famous tracks, a few facts, a sense that you’re watching something fairly interesting… But that isn’t what this… Read more

Date: 10/02/26 Stars: 4 The Undying sounds, on paper, like it might be a big supernatural concept piece. A pill. Immortality. The temptation to cheat death. The kind of premise that could easily tip into something larger-than-life or overdone. But the play is much more interested in something smaller and sadder than that. The Undying… Read more

Date: 27/01/26 Stars: 3 Mrs President is an odd, thoughtful, sometimes frustrating piece of theatre. It’s not interested in walking you through Mary Lincoln’s life, or even particularly in explaining it. Instead, it drops you into the aftermath, when everything has already gone wrong, and asks a question: who do you become when history has… Read more

Date: 26th January 2026 Stars: 2 There’s something genuinely admirable about Cable Street. It’s trying to turn a moment of collective courage into a piece of musical theatre, and that’s not an easy thing to do without slipping into either sentimentality or sloganeering. When it first appeared at Southwark Playhouse, its roughness felt forgivable, even… Read more

Date: 11/01/2026 Stars: 5 The funny thing about Kenrex is that it doesn’t feel like a one-person play when you’re watching it – that’s the first thing that really sticks out. Jack Holden manages to fill the stage with people, and every character (and there are a fair few of them) has their own voice,… Read more