Review Roundup: ALADDIN at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 29, 2024
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre is presenting Aladdin as its pantomime for 2024, written by Sonia Jalaly. See what the critics are saying and read the reviews for the production.
Review: GOD OF CARNAGE, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Sep 7, 2023
It’s good fun, but the last half hour of the 90 interval-less minutes drags. The dissection of their personalities and attitudes towards society doesn’t really go anywhere, but it’s an amusing, hyperbolic, melodramatic cut-out of a pretentious dispute between well-off fantoccini made to detonate in a controlled environment.
THE LITTLE BIG THINGS Leads our Top Ten London Shows for September
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Sep 1, 2023
The nights are getting shorter, the swimming trunks are being packed away and you probably have bought some new pens and pencils. September is here and promises some amazing theatre to come. Check out our top ten recommendations for theatre in London this month.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For GOD OF CARNAGE at the Lyric Hammersmith
by Stephi Wild - Aug 11, 2023
Step inside the rehearsal room for God of Carnage and take a first look at Yasmina Reza’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning dark comedy, translated by Academy Award-winning Christopher Hampton (The Father). Directed by Lyric Associate Director Nicholai La Barrie, this fresh revival pokes fun at wealth, power and greed, and is the unmissable darkly funny roller-coaster you won’t want to end.
Cast Revealed For GOD OF CARNAGE at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jun 23, 2023
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced full casting for the revival of Yasmina Reza’s savagely dark comedy God of Carnage, in a translation by Christopher Hampton, which won both the Tony and Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2009, as well as picking up Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actress for Marcia Gay Harden.
Review: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, Lyric Hammersmith
by Paige Cochrane - Nov 28, 2022
With winter nights growing ever darker and Christmas just around the corner, now is the perfect time to treat yourself to everyone’s favourite festive entertainment. Who doesn’t love a pantomime? This year, the Lyric Hammersmith’s offering is a re-imagining of Jack and the Beanstalk. Nostalgia is thrust into the present with a soundtrack packed full of Beyonce, Billie Eilish and many more.
Photos: First Look at JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 25, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has released production photos for its pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Jude Christian and Sonia Jalaly with Emmanuel Akwafo playing Dame Trott, Maddison Bulleyment playing Jill, Jodie Jacobs playing Fleshcreep, Leah St Luce playing Jack and Finlay McGuigan playing Simon.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Panto
by Stephi Wild - Nov 3, 2022
All new rehearsal photos have been released from this year’s highly anticipated pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Jude Christian and Sonia Jalaly, directed by Nicholai La Barrie. The production runs at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre from 19 November until 7 January.