Reviews

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

Date: 08/04/26 Stars: 5 It’s prom night, and someone’s got a date with the devil… I Was A Teenage She-Devil throws you straight into a high-school world where popularity is crucial, guitars are always within reach, and making a deal with Satan feels like a reasonable after-school activity – it’s properly and proudly ridiculous, and… Read more

Date: 02/04/26 Stars: 2 I really wanted to like Lifeline more than I did… after all, the subject matter is clearly important, and it’s definitely coming from a place of genuine care and concern, and that does make it harder to be critical. A musical about antimicrobial resistance and people working in microbiology isn’t an… Read more

Date: 18/03/26 Stars: 3 Ruth Ellis’s story doesn’t really need much dressing up. It’s already uncomfortable, already complicated, and already full of tension, which is probably why Ruth at the Wilton’s Music Hall pulls you in quite quickly. At the same time though, as it went on, I kept coming back to the same thought,… Read more

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