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Review: Dribble
A colourful, enthusiastic presentation of life between Brazil and Scotland that began in a shared love from the centre circle.
Review: Boobytrapped
Wonderfully silly and dead serious at the same time, thought provoking and intriguing.
Review: You and Me (and whoever comes next)
A thought-provoking drama exposing the gaps in our care system through humour and first rate storytelling.
Review: atticwife
'atticwife' is the amalgamation of all the trad wife influencers you love to hate.
Review: Milkdrunk
Funny and bittersweet theatre, writer-performer Cathleen O’Malley with a no-holds barred play about the delights, frights and heartache of first time motherhood.
Review: Two Little Pigs
An absurdist trip glimpse into the toxic world of the manosphere, guided by a talking pig and laughing all the way.
Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing
An outstanding and landmark double production.
Review: The Trial of Magnus Coffinkey
A powerful piece of theatre that shows where stories become healing.
Review: Broke & Fabulous in the 21st Century
Outrageous, touching, sentimental, privileged, and funny. Old-school falling-apart dramedy brought into a very twenty-first century setting
Review: Delphi: The Musical
This Ancient Greece-set musical comedy is poised, fresh, and joyful in the face of incoming empire
Review: Ewartung, The Murderous Delusions of Gavrilo K
Unmissable for those interested in the wilder shores of late Romanticism, once it’s staged again
Review: This Year I Am Going To Die
A witty, and thoroughly enjoyable funeral I'd be happy to attend twice
Review: Somewhere, In Between: A Play About Hope
Important monologues on the theme of hope, delivered with passion, poise and precision
Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Summer-drenched pizzazz and spectacle could hardly have been better timed.
Review: Oberon
Weber’s greatness – wider than his operas - has been rather underplayed in his bicentenary year in the UK, the place which finally killed him off.
Review: Thresholds
It's a fascinating journey nowhere, and somehow that's exactly where you want to be.
Review: Short Stories of Life and Death
A wonderful advertisement for NVT’s programme, attracting and nurturing some formidable talent. Where next?
Review: The Misanthrope
Impressive. This Moliere, with Sandra Oh commanding too, seems slightly less urgent though eminently worth seeing.
Review: War Horse
An astonishing spectacle that still moves and will forever craze the idiocy of war on the retina like an iced-over No-Man’s Land.
Review: Appropriate
NVT confirm this a masterpiece, something I’d not fully appreciated in the excellent 2019 Donmar production, which this excels. Outstanding
Review: My Fair Lady
Kavanagh’s production is in every way outstanding, I’m not sure there’s been a finer – or at least more believable - My Fair Lady conceived and staged as here.
Review: Tender
With such terrific performances you root for this not-yet-couple right to the blackout.
Review: Maisie by Roger Goldsmith
One-Man Play presented at Spotlites Theatre, Chatham as part of the MedFringe 2026
Review: Happy Days
Company Teatro Meridional takes to the stage one of Samuel Beckett's masterpieces impeccably interpreted by actress Mónica Garnel
Review: Ansioliticamente Falando
An autobiographical mise-en-scène of one's own anxieties projected onto Anton Chekhov's The Seagull which embraces the larger subject of mental health in Portuguese society.
Review: -320°F
If you’ve not seen a Noda production, see it. If you have, see it. It’s still the most intelligent spectacular I’ve seen in recent times.
Review: Wife to James Whelan
It should transfer, though nothing can beat this space for delivery. Outstanding, a must-see if ever there was one.
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
Not only lands in all the right places, it fizzes perhaps more than any Much Ado I’ve seen.
Review: Caterpillar
This is a richly freighted drama: all the issues around loss, abuse, displacement and ideation circle in two-hours-twenty with interval.
Review: 45 Years
Acting and often dialogue still compel in long bursts. It sets a seal on one of the swiftest slow-burn productions I’ve seen.
Review: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
With a re-think more thorough than a new fuel-tank for Priscilla, it’s now an outstanding show.
Review: Jane Eyre
Polly Teale has released the daemons, but Nettie Sheridan’s ensemble has delivered Jane Eyre’s feeling to a pitch remarkable even for BLT. With a twilight and sunny consummation at BOAT, it’s even more outstanding.
Review: Under the Shadow
Far richer than any ghost play haunting the tour circuit, it’s a blistering, scary must-see.
Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
It’s important to see it now. It’s none the less real for being fiction.
Review: Are You Watching?
Georgie Dettmer’s voice should be one of the leading dramatists of resistance. Yet more, Dettmer has already much to say about how to live now and next.
Review: Teeth ‘n’ Smiles
As Teeth ‘n’ Smiles ends, we’re left to feel the long withdrawing roar of the 1960s, and the bleaker horizons and disillusion Hare saw by 1975. A must-see.
Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe
It hasn’t dated. As worthy of our attention as recent Ridley, and rivets us forever. A must-see.
Review: Do Not Attempt This Conversation
Mo Maka’s play though brief is superbly constructed and taut. I can hardly wait for Maka’s next play.
Review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
This desperate elegy of betrayal, straight from Le Carré’s own hurt, will haunt you with the truth of its despair.
Review: The P Word
A bold yet tender exploration of what it is to be gay, Asian and humane. You come out cheering. A must-see.
Review: Organised: Crime
Got things you need cleaned up on the QT? Angela's Angels - thorough and discrete
Review: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
Absorbing and attracted a sold-out brief run. Factually realist, but liminally fantastical, it wields potential for serious sly fun, and real drama.
Review: Wrap Party
A lightning-quick comedy about invisible labour, ambition and class set in a catering van on a film set.
Review: Mother Courage and Her Children
Brecht’s ferocious message that those who seek profit from war are often its victims too is driven home in the weight of dropped bodies, and Michelle Terry’s outstanding performance.
Review: Operation Mincemeat
This is the finest new musical I’ve seen for many years. End of. The hype, the Oliviers and Tony call it right. See it.
Review: Learning to CELEBRATE! When Life Hands You a Dysfunctional Family
An interactive party and one-person show through which Scoggins demonstrates the power inherent in choosing what, when, and how we celebrate.
Review: Quartet in Autumn
Absorbing, a must-see for anyone asking questions of where we begin our endings.
Review: Toast: Stories from the End of the World
Some engaging, lean in science fiction dark comedy theatre
Review: Can’t Kill the Spirit
An earnest exploration of activism and conviction, elevated by moments of genuine historical resonance.
Review: The Dasslers
The Dasslers wields a potential beyond its current limitations – both in this brief production and in its current form. And Radford, clearly setting out his dramatic stall in history’s cross-currents, is a voice to watch.
Review: Wench
Standing ovations for this new behemoth of a piece, performed with complete control by the beautiful and intense Felix Le Freak.
Review: Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin: A Drag Crime Caper
A legendary detective meets a master criminal . . .
Review: The Love We Think We Deserve
It could grow into something both exceptional and even more necessary.
Review: Godot’s To-Do List, Krapp’s Last Tape
A performance of lessness writ large: a man shrinking from his environment, the memories taking over and kicking Krapp’s mere organic matter out.
Review: Lilla Multipass: Woman (33)
Who can really have the most tote bags to “take down the patriarchy”?
Review: The Dance of Time: A New Black Comedy
Here’s hoping it returns, clearly a play with a future as long as Tom’s is apparently short.
Review: Foal
The Finborough have form with five-star solo shows. This is clearly another flued and sanded with the ferocity of pursuit. Outstanding.
