There are more twists and turns in Jordi Galceran’s business drama The Grönholm Method than a stock market boom and bust. Four candidates are through to the final stages of a cutthroat interview... Read more
London Theatre Reviews
Planning a theatre trip and not sure whether to splurge on the star power and spectacle of a West End musical, experience an intimate drama in a Fringe venue, or check out the latest in new writing at the Royal Court?
See what our reviewers thought about all the latest London theatre offerings with our full theatre reviews listings! From classic dramas to new musicals, our editorial team have written about what they loved and what they didn’t. View our London Theatre Guide reviews below or visit the reviews archive for closed shows.
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As Hamlet – played by Michelle Terry, launching into her second production at the helm of Shakespeare’s Globe by casting herself as the Dane – first appeared on stage, I was prepared to be moved. It... Read more -
In her first production as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Michelle Terry brings the theatre back to basics with the introduction of an ensemble cast of 12 who will perform several plays... Read more -
In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's majestic, Pulitzer-Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, a person says of French impressionist painter Georges Seurat: "White. A blank page or... Read more -
Stop a person on the street and ask them to name a West End musical, they’ll probably say one of two things: Les Mis, or The Phantom of the Opera. The latter has been impressively running non-stop at... Read more -
First of all, serious kudos to the Bridge Theatre - the brand-new theatre founded on the South Bank by the artistic and executive director duo who previously ran the National, Nick Hytner and Nick... Read more -
The Oscar Wilde season at the Vaudeville, which has already produced revivals of Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance and now continues with An Ideal Husband, feels like slipping into... Read more -
Plays about art are all too common: we've just seen The Writer (at the Almeida) that puts the high cost of being a playwright (at least emotionally speaking) under the spotlight. There's also... Read more -
"Each game of chess means there's one less variation left to be played," we are informed as the latest round of the World Chess Federation's world championships are played out, first in Merano, Italy... Read more -
Theatre is all in the timing, and the opening night of Nine Night coincided with the resignation of the Home Secretary Amber Rudd over misrepresenting her department's immigration stance on the... Read more
