In this miserly year given over in so many cases to illness and isolation, the arrival of A Christmas Carol as the festive-season title of choice seems especially popular. Dickens’s tale of gradually...
London Theatre Reviews Archive
Browse the London Theatre Review archive for a look back into Fringe theatre, West End shows, plays and musicals that have now closed, ranging from 1996 to the present.
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With no shortage of visitations by the spooky seasonal favourite this year, why the Dickens would you pick this one? If it’s political punch you’re after, there’s Jack Thorne’s Old Vic adaptation (... -
How do you improve upon perfection? Here’s one suggestion: hire Stephen Mangan. I’ve now seen Matthew Warchus’s gloriously moving, riotously entertaining production of A Christmas Carol four times,... -
Has lighting struck twice? Not entirely, though that’s not necessarily meant as a demerit. In 1991, the Royal Court’s studio-sized Theatre Upstairs premiered a play by the Argentina-born writer Ariel... -
After the year we’ve had, we’re all ready for a party – and this production of Shakespeare’s lovestruck comedy, directed by Sean Holmes and first seen in 2019, riotously delivers a fiesta to remember... -
What is the one memory you would like to take from your mortal life into the beyond? This is the question that Jack Thorne’s latest play After Life poses for its audience and its characters, as the... -
The fear going into Craig Lucas’s musical adaptation of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s now-iconic 2001 film is that the whimsicality of the original might calcify into an unbearable, teeth-rotting level of... -
The production is inseparable from the play when it comes to Anna X, the dazzling 80-minute theatrical joyride that brings the producer Sonia Friedman’s RE:EMERGE season of new writing in a... -
Great Scott! Roger Bart, whose positive Covid test kept him from opening night earlier this month, is once again bringing his 1.21 gigawatts of zany energy to Doc Brown. I went back to Back to the... -
Could any political play top the current seething drama in Westminster? Perhaps not, but James Graham’s latest is another fascinating slice of history that feels all too pertinent. In fact, our...
