Helen Murray

Review: MORE LIFE, The Royal Court
by Alexander Cohen - Feb 13, 2025

Botox and Ozempic can make anyone beautiful and AI will outthink us all. What is left for the human race? That’s the question that’s unravelled in More Life

Review Roundup: THE YEARS Makes Its West End Transfer
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 10, 2025

The five-star sold out production of The Years has transferred to the West End for 12 weeks only. Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s fearless masterpiece, five actors create an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly-changing world.

Review: THE YEARS, Harold Pinter Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Feb 10, 2025

Critics raved about its initial run at the Almedia last year. Can it make the leap from intimate space to grand West End playhouse?

Review Roundup: ELEKTRA, Starring Brie Larson
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 6, 2025

Starring Brie Larson, Daniel Fish directs the first major revival in over a decade of Sophokles’ electrifying and timeless play, Elektra, with a translation by poet Anne Carson, at the Duke Of York’s Theatre.

Review: ELEKTRA, Duke Of York's Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Feb 6, 2025

So why is Daniel Fish’s Elektra such a droning dud?

Photos: THE YEARS at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 30, 2025

Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new Artistic Director Eline Arbo returns to direct her five-star, sold out  adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel The Years. Check out all new photos here!

Photos: WICKED Stars Cythia Erivo and Ariana Grande Visit National Youth Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 28, 2025

The Oscar and BAFTA nominated stars of WICKED, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, stopped by the National Youth Theatre’s home on the Holloway Road in North London to meet members of the NYT REP Company. Check out photos here!

Photos: RSC's EDWARD II in Rehearsals
by Stephi Wild - Jan 27, 2025

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the RSC’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s rarely performed tragedy, Edward II, which runs in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon beginning next month.

Review: THE INVENTION OF LOVE, Hampstead Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Dec 17, 2024

Don’t be fooled. It’s midwinter and a rotund man with a big white beard is centre stage. But this is no schmultz-fest panto. It’s Simon Russell Beale as A.E Housman in Blanche Mcintyre’s sober new production of Tom Stoppard’s portrait of the artist as an old man, The Invention Of Love.

Photos: Brie Larson, Stockard Channing, and More in ELEKTRA
by Stephi Wild - Dec 16, 2024

All new photos have been released from the rehearsal room of ELEKTRA, the UK Premiere production of the translation by award winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s play. Check out the photos here!

Review: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Brixton House
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 27, 2024

Alice In Wonderland? More like Alice Goes Underground as Poltergeist Productions’ take on the Lewis Carroll classic sees our heroine trapped on a tube.

Photos: National Youth Theatre's TWELFTH NIGHT in Rehearsal
by Stephi Wild - Nov 18, 2024

New rehearsal photos have been released of Twelfth Night, a National Youth Theatre production performed by the NYT REP company. Check out the photos here!

Review: WOLVES ON ROAD, Bush Theatre
by Gary Naylor - Nov 17, 2024

Director, Daniel Bailey, follows up his hit Red Pitch with a play that cannot locate the detail it needs to step out of a generic plot

Photos: ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS In Rehearsal At Unicorn Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 6, 2024

See photos from inside rehearsal for Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, adapted for the stage by Robert Alan Evans, and directed by Rachel Bagshaw.

Review: BRACE BRACE, Royal Court Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Oct 12, 2024

Digging deep into human nature, Oli Forsyth’s Brace Brace combines the pace and excitement of a thriller with an unexpectedly perceptive intelligence. Ambitiously designed and skillfully directed, it’s a deeply engrossing piece of theatre writes our critic.

Review: KING TROLL (THE FAWN), New Diorama
by Josh Maughan - Oct 9, 2024

This co-production between the New Diorama Theatre and Kali Theatre is a visceral investigation of how migrant communities transform under the layers of anger, fear, and resilience they adopt - products of survival in a vexatious state.

Review: NOWHERE, Battersea Arts Centre
by Cindy Marcolina - Oct 5, 2024

The world is a dark place. Every day, we seem to edge closer to the start of another global conflict. Nowhere is safe. War and destruction have become steady protagonists on our television screens, to the point where we’re growing increasingly desensitised to violence.

Review: THE REAL ONES, Bush Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Sep 13, 2024

At once intimate and expansive, The Real Ones follows the friendship of Zaid and Neelam from age nineteen to thirty-six. Once kindred spirits, moving in sync, they fall out of step when the harsh reality of adult life sends them in different directions. Waleed Akhtar (Olivier winner for The P Word) pens a sharply observed look into whether platonic love can last.

Photos: Vasco Emauz, Cory English, and More Lead BACK TO THE FUTURE in the West End
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2024

All new production images have been released for the critically acclaimed BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical in London's West End. Check out the photos here!

Review: DEATH OF ENGLAND: CLOSING TIME, @sohoplace
by Alexander Cohen - Aug 29, 2024

It only premiered last October, but Death of England: Closing Time, the final chapter in Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s state of the nation triptych, not only retains its spine-frosting freshness, but feels more dangerous than ever.