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Date: 28/05/26 Stars: 4 History tends to remember people for the worst day of their lives. That’s certainly true of William Critchard and Richard Arnold; their names survive because of what happened to them, not because of who they were, and what Redcliffe does so well is make them feel like real people before history… Read more

Date: 24/05/26 Stars: 4 The first thing the audience sees in The Fastest Clock in the Universe is Cougar Glass sitting in fake sunlight in nothing but his pants, soaking up the warmth like some strange reptile, smoking and drinking. At first it’s funny. Ridiculous, even. But then you properly look at him. There’s something… Read more

Date: 18/05/26 Stars: 5 The first thing you see in Young Vic’s CARE is a semi-circle of wooden chairs in a brightly lit nursing home common room, and if you’ve ever had a relative in one of those spaces, there’s a good chance you feel something sink in your stomach before the play has even… Read more

Please note: this review first appeared on West End Best Friend on 14/05/26 Date: 13/05/26 Stars: 4 It’s worth saying just how big The Last Man already is in South Korea. Written by Jishik Kim with music by Seungyeon Kwon, the musical has built up a huge following there over several productions, and this run… Read more

Date: 08/05/26 Stars: 4 As people are still finding their seats in Southwark Playhouse Borough’s The Little, there’s already someone on stage. A woman in a tracksuit, chain smoking, heavily pregnant, staring at her phone. It takes a second to realise she’s part of the play and not just someone wandering around before it starts,… Read more

Date: 06/05/26 Stars: 3 Before Tamiko Dooley’s Flyology even officially starts, Charlie Renwick’s Callum is already wandering around the stage chatting to the audience, explaining who he is and why we’re all there, and it immediately gives the whole thing a slightly chaotic energy. We’re investors, apparently, gathered to witness the future of technology, a… Read more

Date: 29/04/26 Stars: 3 The Authenticator by Winsome Pinnock is set inside a decaying country house, now owned by Fenella. While sorting through the property, she uncovers a collection of diaries written by her ancestor, Henry Harford, detailing his time running a plantation in Jamaica. What stands out immediately is how the entries reduce enslaved… Read more

PLEASE NOTE: This review contains spoilers. Date: 21/04/26 Stars: 5 I was intrigued by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic before it even started, just from the staging in the round. Why were we being invited into the ward with the patients? Or were we? Because at first, the lighting keeps… Read more

Date: 20/04/26 Stars: 4 Before anything really gets going, you’re already clocking the details – the hoverboard, the cap, the Hill Valley bits dotted around, the Enchantment Under the Sea school dance sign… it’s the kind of setup where you end up scanning the stage trying to find what else has been hidden in here.… Read more

Date: 14/04/26 Stars: 4 There’s a point about halfway through Bren Gosling’s Invisible Me where you realise no one has left the stage, nothing has actually changed, but it all feels a bit different now. You’ve got the same three characters, the same three chairs, but, like life itself, things have moved forward. Slowly, yes,… Read more