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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

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

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

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

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

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