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Review: CHICAGO at The Hawth, Crawley
Date: 11th August 2025 Stars: 4 Chicago isn’t the sort of show that eases you in – it arrives in a burst of brass and attitude, the band right there on stage with the cast, and within minutes you’re caught in its rhythm. At The Hawth last night, that rhythm was tight. The lights were Read more
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Review: THE CROFT at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Date: 4th June 2025 Stars: 3 There’s a lot of promise in The Croft. A remote Highland cottage. Multiple timelines. Mothers, daughters, ghosts… the whole brooding, atmospheric package. And for the most part, it delivers exactly what you’d expect from a slow-burning psychological ghost story. There’s just a bit of creaking – and not the Read more
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Review: RADIANT BOY at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Date: 23rd May 2025 Stars: 4 Some plays creep up on you quietly, but Radiant Boy doesn’t bother with that – it walks straight through the door, sits itself down, and refuses to leave your head for the rest of the night. Set in a snowed-in house in North East England in the early 80s, Read more
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Review: REMYTHED at the King’s Head Theatre
If you’ve ever found yourself side-eyeing a dusty old myth and thinking, hang on… where are all the queer people, Remythed is there for you. This punchy, high-energy show takes those familiar legends we half-remember from school, turns them inside out, and rebuilds them with boldness, brains, and a solid dose of irreverence. It’s not Read more
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Review: PAPER SWANS at Soho Theatre
Date: 28th April 2025 Stars: 5 Paper Swans is one of those shows that creeps up on you. It doesn’t explode onto the stage or shout for your attention. It just sits there quietly at first – on a bench, in a park, late at night – and slowly draws you into something far more Read more
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Review: (THIS IS NOT A) HAPPY ROOM at King’s Head Theatre
Date: 17th April 2025 Stars: 3 Rosie Day’s (This Is Not a) Happy Room starts with balloons and ends with emotional body blows – which feels pretty on brand for any family wedding-turned-funeral, really. In a Blackpool function room lined with taffeta and tension, three siblings arrive expecting their dad’s next ill-fated wedding, only to Read more
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Review: RICHARD II at The Bridge Theatre
Date: 14/04/2025 Stars: 4 In Nicholas Hytner’s slick, sharp-edged production of Richard II at the Bridge Theatre, the fall of a king is reimagined not with velvet robes and candlelight but in boardrooms, under spotlights, and behind glass walls that feel more Fortune 500 than medieval court. This is Shakespeare with its sleeves rolled up Read more
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Review: The Play’s The Thing: A One-Person Hamlet at Wilton’s Music Hall
Date: 9th April 2025 Stars: 4 Hamlet walks on stage. So does Claudius. Then Gertrude. Then Polonius. Except… it’s still just one person. And somehow, your brain doesn’t rebel. It adjusts, leans in, and starts to see what this stripped-back solo production is really doing: it’s not trying to be a traditional Hamlet – it’s Read more
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Review: DOUBLE ACT at Southwark Playhouse (Borough)
Date: 24th March 2025 Stars: 3 You don’t expect a show that opens with a man taking a day off work to end his life to be… funny. But Double Act, now playing at Southwark Playhouse Borough, is full of surprises. It’s bold, bizarre, and somehow manages to mix clowning, physical comedy, and a really Read more
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Review: TITANIQUE at The Criterion Theatre
Date: 22nd March 2025 Seat: Box D Stars: 5 All aboard the HMS Titanique, where the iconic love story of Jack and Rose gets a riotous, rhinestone-studded reimagining—this time told through the unmistakable voice (and questionable facts) of one Céline Dion. Now docked at London’s Criterion Theatre, this cult off-Broadway hit has made its way Read more
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