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Date: 19th March 2025 Seat: E17 (Dress Circle) Stars: 4 London’s West End has seen its fair share of long-running hits, but The Mousetrap is in a league of its own. Now celebrating its 30,000th performance, Agatha Christie’s classic whodunnit has outlasted generations of theatre trends, countless cultural shifts, and most of its original audience. Read more

Date: 17th March 2025  Seat: G14 (Royal Circle) Stars: 5 When the lights go down on Inside No. 9: Stage/Fright, one thing is certain: you have absolutely no idea what’s coming next. But then again, that’s always been the thrill of Inside No. 9, hasn’t it? Nine seasons in, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have Read more

Date: 10th March 2025  Seat: H18 (Stalls) Stars: 4 There are few things in life you can count on: the British weather being unpredictable, someone standing up before the train has even reached the platform, and Lee Mead delivering an effortlessly charming performance. Last night at the Vaudeville Theatre, Mead kicked off The Westway Sessions Read more

Date: 7th March 2025  Seat: Stalls Slips 12 Stars: 5 There’s a moment, halfway through Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing, where Tom Hiddleston – suave, composed, effortlessly cool – finds himself completely buried under an avalanche of pink confetti. He writhes, he flails, he attempts (and fails) to maintain dignity, and the audience, already on Read more

Date: 3rd March 2025  Stars: 2 Revenge. Bloodlust. Family trauma. And, apparently, the urgent need to assault the audience with as much noise, nonsense, and meaningless theatrics as humanly possible. Welcome to Elektra at the Duke of York’s Theatre – a production so aggressively self-indulgent that I started wondering if it was some elaborate social experiment to Read more

Date: 28th February 2025  Stars: 4 You know that moment when a toddler kicks off mid-flight, and you think, thank God that’s not my kid? Well, in Son of a Bitch, it is Marnie’s kid. And worse still, the internet is watching.  After turning heads at the Edinburgh Fringe, Anna Morris’s razor-sharp one-woman play has landed at Southwark Playhouse Read more

Date: 22nd February 2025  Seat: Unallocated Stars: 3 We all know reality TV is fake, right? The sob stories, the rigged votes, the contestant who just happens to forget their lyrics at the most dramatic moment – it’s all carefully curated chaos. But what if, in the middle of all that, someone snapped? What if Read more

Date: 7th February 2025  Seat: K28 (Stalls) Stars: 3 If you’ve ever sat in a waiting room and thought it was absolute chaos then DocDoc takes that feeling and dials it up to eleven. This internationally acclaimed comedy – having had audiences in 37 countries laughing themselves into a medical emergency – has finally checked in for Read more

Date: 29th January 2025  Seat: Unallocated Stars: 4 Haunted Shadows at the White Bear Theatre takes a bold and minimalist approach to the ghost story genre, trading spectacle for quiet tension. It’s adapted from Edith Nesbit’s collection of ghost stories (she didn’t just write for children), and this one-woman show offers moments of genuine unease, which Read more

Date: 4th January 2025  Seat: Balcony A20 Stars: 3 When you hear that Sigourney Weaver is making her West End debut as Prospero in The Tempest, it’s impossible not to feel a buzz of excitement. Alien queen turned Shakespearean sorcerer? Sign me up. Throw in Jamie Lloyd’s signature sleek direction and a stage as grand as Drury Lane, Read more