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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‘Dear Diary. July 12th, 2021.’ Veronica Sawyer opens Heathers with the phrase "Dear Diary", so it feels fitting to mark the day I battled through the wind and rain to see Heathers in the West End.... Read more -
On a night of jubilation for English football fans, there was ample cause for celebration in the West End, too. Theatre came roaring back with a bright and big-hearted musical, ecstatically received... Read more -
“Another heavenly day,” trills Winnie, the inexhaustibly chatty – not to mention seemingly inexhaustible – heroine of Beckett’s Happy Days, which is marking its 60th birthday this year with a... Read more -
A big welcome, first of all, to the Turbine Theatre, another new theatre created in the bowels of a South London railway arch, like the Union, the Above the Stag and Southwark Playhouse's previous... Read more -
There aren’t many lines being read in London right now that sum up the public consciousness quite succinctly as when Diana Hesketh sarcastically quips to her career politician husband about the “... Read more -
With Boris Johnson moved into Number 10 and the dreaded ‘B word’ uttered more than ever, it may seem as if history is being rewritten before our eyes every day. But with centuries of history shaping... Read more -
Hansel and Gretel is always a tricky one to place for an audience. Whilst generally considered a children’s fairytale, this originally gruesome tale of cruelty and parental neglect isn’t in any way... Read more -
The West End may be catching up with the times, but it's via characters who either live, or want to live, in the past. This month and next, contemporary women playwrights are seeing two new plays of... Read more -
After almost a decade of development since it was first released as a folk concept album, Anaïs Mitchell’s musical riff on the Orpheus myth Hadestown plunges the National Theatre’s Olivier into the... Read more
