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Review: VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON PREMIERES EDMUND FINNIS, Southbank Centre
Review: VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON PREMIERES EDMUND FINNIS, Southbank Centre
September 26, 2022

Making his Proms debut just last year, Víkingur Ólafsson brings his searing musical brilliance to the Southbank Centre.

Review: THE CLINIC, Almeida Theatre
Review: THE CLINIC, Almeida Theatre
September 13, 2022

An awkward marriage of melodrama and naturalism

Review: AGE IS A FEELING, Soho Theatre
Review: AGE IS A FEELING, Soho Theatre
September 11, 2022

An unspectacular meditation on human mortality

Review: BBC PROMS AND THE ENO at Printworks London
Review: BBC PROMS AND THE ENO at Printworks London
September 4, 2022

The Proms, Printworks, and multimedia mayhem. Created and co-produced by award winning counter tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Philip Glass's meditative Minimalism and Handel's Baroque elegance crash together in a cacophony of artistic media.

Review: ANTHEM, Bush Theatre
Review: ANTHEM, Bush Theatre
August 26, 2022

The Bush Theatre's youth company meditate on growing up in an increasingly demanding world.

Review: GODOT IS A WOMAN, Pleasance Dome
Review: GODOT IS A WOMAN, Pleasance Dome
August 23, 2022

Waiting for 'Waiting for Godot'

Edinburgh 2022: Review: BLANKET BAN, Underbelly Cowgate
Edinburgh 2022: Review: BLANKET BAN, Underbelly Cowgate
August 22, 2022

An angry yet artless examination of Malta's ban on abortion.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: A LITTLE LIFE, Festival Theatre
Edinburgh 2022: Review: A LITTLE LIFE, Festival Theatre
August 21, 2022

An unflinchingly unrelentingly brutal production, a Little Life is not for the faint of heart. But it deserves to be seen nonetheless.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: A SUDDEN VIOLENT BURST OF RAIN, Summerhall Roundhouse
Edinburgh 2022: Review: A SUDDEN VIOLENT BURST OF RAIN, Summerhall Roundhouse
August 22, 2022

A bloodless refugee drama unsuited to the space in which it is performed.

Review: PSYCHODRAMA, Traverse Theatre
Review: PSYCHODRAMA, Traverse Theatre
August 19, 2022

An alluring homage to Hitchcock's Psycho

Review: WE WERE PROMISED HONEY, Summerhall Roundhouse
Review: WE WERE PROMISED HONEY, Summerhall Roundhouse
August 19, 2022

A dazzling meditation on human transience

Review: CHARLOTTE JOHNSON: MY DAD AND OTHER LIES, Pleasance Dome
Review: CHARLOTTE JOHNSON: MY DAD AND OTHER LIES, Pleasance Dome
August 18, 2022

An hour of stand-up from Boris Johnson’s illegitimate daughter, everything about Charlotte Johnson: My Dad and Other Lies is predictable.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: WHO HERE'S LOST?, Pleasance Attic
Edinburgh 2022: Review: WHO HERE'S LOST?, Pleasance Attic
August 16, 2022

Ben Moor is an English Wes Anderson. Everything about his playful one man show Who Here's Lost? Exudes Anderson's signature twee from Moor's knitted jumper to the whimsical world of the play itself.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: EULOGY, Summerhall
Edinburgh 2022: Review: EULOGY, Summerhall
August 16, 2022

Performed in total darkness, Eulogy is one of the Edinburgh festival's more eccentric offerings.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: MEDEA, The Hub
Edinburgh 2022: Review: MEDEA, The Hub
August 15, 2022

Each word of Scottish poet Liz Lochhead's razor sharp adaption of Euripides' Medea is forged in fire. First staged in 2000, it is still searingly relevant and painfully urgent.

Review: SIEGFRIED & GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, Hackney Empire
Review: SIEGFRIED & GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, Hackney Empire
August 7, 2022

This bare-bones production lacks the theatrical flesh to bulk up the sense of grandeur.

Review: BAD JEWS, Arts Theatre
Review: BAD JEWS, Arts Theatre
July 27, 2022

Strong performances carry this cringe-inducing family feud.

Review: THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT, Kiln Theatre
Review: THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT, Kiln Theatre
July 22, 2022

An inorganic melodrama that stuffs too many themes together.

Review: THE BLUE WOMAN, Royal Opera House
Review: THE BLUE WOMAN, Royal Opera House
July 7, 2022

Composer Laura Bowler and Librettist Laura Lomas' new opera navigates the psychological landscape of sexual assault

Review: FAVOUR, Bush Theatre
Review: FAVOUR, Bush Theatre
July 1, 2022

A tumultuous portrait of a family divided by religion and modernity



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