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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

Where: Prince Edward Theatre, London When: 28th September 2025 Stars: 5 There are times in the theatre when you settle into your seat expecting the usual – a script, a cast, some careful choreography – and then there are times like this. An Audience with Priscilla Presley: Life After Elvis at the Prince Edward isn’t Read more

Where: The Glitch, Waterloo When: 19th September 2025 Stars: 4 The Warp and the Weft isn’t really a play you sit back and watch — it’s one you’re drawn right into. At The Glitch, with just 55 seats wrapped around the stage, there’s nowhere to hide in the dark; you’re part of the fabric as Read more

Date: 13th September 2025 Where: Shaftesbury Theatre, London Stars: 4 There are jukebox musicals, and then there’s Just for One Day, which barrels on stage waving a charity bucket and demanding you join the chorus. It’s not subtle, but then neither was Live Aid. The show takes the most famous concert of the 1980s and Read more

Date: 10/09/25 Stars: 5 It’s not often you get to watch William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe sweat it out in a single pub backroom, but Liz Duffy Adams has decided that’s exactly the stage they deserve. Born With Teeth, directed by Daniel Evans at Wyndham’s, isn’t a history lesson so much as a locked-room experiment. Read more

Date: 13th August 2025 Stars: 3 Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet took a very sober tragedy and turned it on its head with unpredictable hilarity, and yet, somehow, the scaffold of Shakespeare’s story remained intact. The concept is pretty simple, and also absolutely chaotic: take a Shakespeare play, cast it with capable, sober actors, and then get Read more