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Date: 11/12/25 Stars: 4 Evita Too is exactly the kind of theatrical oddity that only Sh!t Theatre could make: part political excavation, part parody of pop-culture mythmaking, part musical, and part fever dream about what happens when history simply shrugs and forgets a woman who once ran a country. In the Purcell Room, the usually Read more

Date: 6th December 2025 Stars: 5 Southwark Playhouse Elephant has been turned into a sort of broken fairground for Ride the Cyclone, the kind of place where the lights flicker just a little too long and the metal scaffolding looks like it’s survived one storm too many. It’s scrappy, deliberate, and instantly atmospheric. You walk Read more

Please note: this review was originally publised on West End Best Friend. Date: 24th November 2025 Stars: 5 There’s something magical about walking into Wilton’s Music Hall and knowing one hundred percent you’re about to be fooled. The Enigmatist, created and performed by David Kwong, is the kind of show that reminds you why people Read more

Date: 26th November 2025 Stars: 3 There’s a particular kind of theatre trip where you sit down, look at the title Murder at Midnight, and think you know exactly what’s coming. Sharp twists. Breathless tension. A sense that someone will start monologuing about motives. What you actually get here is something far stranger: a play Read more

Date: 10th November 2025 Stars: 3 The afterlife, as it turns out, isn’t harps and halos. It’s forms, folders, and a printer that only works when it feels like it. Helen Cunningham’s Curating, directed by Nikoletta Soumelidis, imagines the next world as an office – the kind with rules, red tape and very little divine Read more

Please note: this review was originally publised on West End Best Friend. Date: 24th October 2025 Stars: 4 At the Union Theatre, Bloody Mary and the Nine Day Queen takes a well-known piece of English history and gives it new life through music, emotion, and a surprisingly sharp sense of humour. It focuses on Mary Read more

Date: 16th October 2025 Stars: 4 History has a way of forgetting the wrong people. Felix Mendelssohn’s name is practically stitched into the fabric of classical music, but his sister Fanny’s? It’s been scribbled in the margins. She was every bit as gifted as her famous brother, but nineteenth-century Europe wasn’t exactly built for brilliant Read more

Date: 15th October 2025 Stars: 4 The strange thing about Ghost Stories at the Peacock isn’t the jump scares. It’s the way the room starts working against you. It’s subtle at first. A draft you’re not sure you imagined. A seat creak that isn’t yours. A gap between heartbeats that feels one beat too long. Read more

Date: 30th September 2025 Stars: 2 Get Down Tonight promises a party. KC and the Sunshine Band on stage, disco ball glitter, a chance to forget the grey outside Charing Cross for 90 minutes. The trouble is, the glitter wears thin quickly, and what you’re left with is a show that feels more like a Read more

Date: 29th September 2025 Stars: 3 Mary Page Marlowe is a strange watch. You see a whole life laid out in fragments – marriages crumbling, kids slipping away, mistakes that bruise everything around them – and yet somehow it all feels muted. Big, sad things happen, but the air in the room stays oddly calm, Read more