LouReviews
Book review: The Plays of Henrik Ibsen
Play review: Firewing at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
Musical review: Jeezus! at New Diorama
Play review: Two Halves of Guinness at Park Theatre
Digital review: Mountain Woman and PeoplePeople at C Arts
Theatre review: Little Town Blue at Camden People’s Theatre
Play review: RUM at Camden People’s Theatre
Peckham Fringe preview: Marcos Byrne on Hello, My Name Is …
Digital theatre review: Net Cafe Refugee 2.0.
Book review: Arthur Miller’s New York
Play review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses at National Theatre
Theatre review: The Wooster Group in Nayatt School Redux at Coronet Theatre
Show preview: Thomas Guthrie on Dancing In The Mirror
Show preview: Hannah Khalil on Love Omar
Play review: Managed Approach at Riverside Studios
Show preview: Charlie and Striptease double bill at the Golden Goose
Play review: Invisible Me at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Musical review: Avenue Q at Shaftesbury Theatre
A focus on Alec Guinness
Spotlight on Shedinburgh
Theatre review: An Evening Without Kate Bush at the Underbelly Boulevard, Soho
A look back at LouReviews over the years!
Show preview: James Sweeney on Make It Count
Concert review: ABBA Voyage
Book review: Quiet Please! and other humorous tales
Play review: Boiler Room Six (Pleasance)
Spotlight: Hoopla 20th Anniversary Improv Festival
Play review: Saint Joan (Arches Lane Theatre)
Musical review: Flyby (Southwark Playhouse Borough)
David Irvin on Ibsen and his enduring relevance
Spotlight on The Black Cap, Camden
Play review: John Proctor is the Villain (Royal Court)
Play review: Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me (it’s really not sexy when that happens) at Hope Theatre
Show preview: Kevin N Golding on Invisible Me
Spotlight on the London Soundtrack Festival
Book review: When Rock Met Hip-Hop
Film review: Proud Princess
Musicals from the cheap seats: The Producers
Review: Your Toys at Unicorn Theatre
Digital review: Last Call for Nefertiti at Dunedin Fringe Festival
Home media review: Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 6
Musical review: Lifeline at Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Show preview: The Witch and the Whistleblower
Film season preview: Marilyn Monroe – Self-Made Star
Play review: Teeth ‘n’ Smiles at the Duke of Yorks
Show preview: Alexis Gregory on SMOKE
Musical review: Sunny Afternoon at Richmond Theatre
Play review: Choir Boy at Stratford East
Musical review: Kinky Boots at London Coliseum
Celebrating the stage and screen Jane Eyres
Play review: In The Print at King’s Head Theatre
Show preview: The team from Not Quite Three Sisters
Show preview: Angel’s Bone by English National Opera
SPRINT Interview: Daniel Grimston on Fieldfare
Play review: Carmilla at The Space (livestream)
Play review: Laughing Matters at Canal Cafe Theatre
Play review: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding at Lyric Hammersmith
Spotlight: Luke Ditchfield on 2nd Row Comedy
Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2026
Show interview: Sunny Side by Northern Rascals
Show preview: Jonathan Munby on The Price
Musical review: SIX at Vaudeville Theatre
Film review: The Containment
Play review: Chopped Liver and Unions at Theatre at the Tabard
Play review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time At Questors
Film review: Daddies Boi at Cinequest Film Festival
Play review: R.O.I. (Return On Investment) at Hampstead Theatre
Play review: Tobermory at Questors
Play review: Welcome to Pemfort at Soho Theatre
Book review: The Cambridge Footlights by Robert Sellers
SPRINT Interview: Alex Robins on Meet Mayor Max
SPRINT Interview: Anju Deshpande on Dear Azaadi
SPRINT Interview: Stoness on That Song From Rocky Horror (Toucha Toucha Touch Me)
SPRINT Interview: Jim Spencer Broadbent and Johnjoe Irwin on Poppies
SPRINT Interview: Rhys Williamson on A Very Difficult Person
Film review: The Mechanics of Borders
SPRINT Interview: Tristen ZiJuin on Bayangkan Bayang
Show preview: Sarah-Louise Young on An Evening Without Kate Bush
Book review: Nowhere To Go But Up – What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us About Living A Big Life
SPRINT Interview: Yuya Sato on Net Cafe Refugee 2.0.
SPRINT Interview: Amina Aaliya Beg on My Mum Told Me Not To Marry An Atheist
Spotlight: Critics Circle Award nominations
SPRINT Interview: Jonny Brace on That’s Ace
SPRINT Interview: Francesco Diaz on SIGH at Big Bang Scratch Night
Play review: The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer at Etcetera Theatre
Film review: Dancing on the Elephant at Cinequest Film Festival 2026
SPRINT Interview: Holly Gifford on Big Little Sister
Film review: La Bohème (Finite Films)
Reflecting on 2026’s Olivier award nominations: part one
SPRINT Interview: Samuel Masters on The Man Who Was Thursday
Show preview: Tim McArthur on Oh, Sister Mary!
Play review: Double Indemnity at Richmond Theatre
SPRINT Interview: Fruit Bowl Theatre on Who Gave You The Mic?
Play review: Our Town at Rose Theatre Kingston
Interview: Greg Mosse on Criterion New Writing
Play review: Broken Glass at Young Vic
Show focus: Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Book review: Box of Delights by Richard Marson
SPRINT Interview: Karla Shacklock on Niplash
SPRINT Interview: Diego Agurto on El Gran Varón
Show focus: Jessica Regan on 16 Postcodes
Film review: OBEX at the Glasgow Film Festival
SPRINT Interview: Sam Hickman on First Woman
SPRINT interview: Sam Holland-Bunyan on Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure?
SPRINT interview: Verity Sharpe on Landlord’s Wet Dream
SPRINT Interview: Benji Paget on BOGGIN
Festival preview: Naomi Sorkin on Women’s Voices at The Playground Theatre
Looking forward to … March
Digital theatre review: Doing Time With Lavinia (NZ Fringe)
Show interview: Jules Coyle on Managed Approach
London amateur theatre focus: Sedos (Pippa Kyle)
The Story of Peer Gynt: An Evening with Kåre Conradi at the Coronet Theatre
Film review: The Other Roe at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Opera review: Iolanthe by Charles Court Opera
Show interview: Last and First Men
Glimpses: Sea Witch in rehearsal, Polly in development
Show interview: Kirsty Patrick Ward on Manic Street Creature
Play review: The Vertical Hour at Questors
Musical review: The Bodyguard at New Wimbledon Theatre
Home media review: Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain vol 1
Play review: Spanish Oranges at Playground Theatre
Play review: Shadowlands at Aldwych Theatre
Show interview: Clare Norburn and Lottie Walker on Practically Imperfect
Fringe Focus: Inside The Glitch post Vault Festival
Shows from the cheap seats: Arcadia and Boris Godunov
Play review: MILES. at Southwark Playhouse
Book review: Offstage: The Pip Simmons Theatre Group 1974-86
Digital review: The Paper Doll House
Show interview: An Evening of Eric and Ern
A day in the life of a theatre critic
Opera review: Così fan tutte by English National Opera
News: Thomas Hopkins Productions launches new shows
Book review: A Year of Creative Thinking
Play review: Debate – Baldwin vs Buckley at Wilton’s Music Hall
Concert review: That’ll Be The Day at London Palladium
Play review: Maggots at Bush Theatre
Stockard Channing on Krapp’s Last Tape
David Westhead on Krapp’s Last Tape
Charity concert Love Life supports One for the Boys
Book review: Trailblazers of Black British Theatre
Show preview: Plays for a Poor Theatre
Film review: Disremember
Play review: Guess How Much I Love You? (Royal Court)
Musical review: Ballad Lines at Southwark Playhouse
Show interview: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Show preview: Go Feral Like The Big Dogs
Looking forward to … February 2026
Book review: Curtain Up! – How to Stage Great Youth Productions
Concert review: Jo – The Little Women Musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Play review: One Jab Cures All at Theatre at the Tabard
Play review: Margarita’s Crown of Shadows (Etcetera)
Show interview: Henry Naylor on Monstering the Rocketman
Musical review: Beautiful Little Fool (Southwark Playhouse)
Book review: Tiger, Tom & Tinkle
Comedy review: ROTUS (Park Theatre)
Book review: Bows and Ties
Book review: Notes From a Working-Class Playwright
Play review: I’ll Be Back at The Glitch
Book review: Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece
Show interview: Maryam D’Abo on Spanish Oranges
Concert review: The Death of Gesualdo (St Martin in the Fields)
Show interview: Hersh Dagmarr on Dagmarr’s Dimanche
Musical review: Already Perfect at King’s Head
Circus review: Cirque du Soleil’s OVO at Royal Albert Hall)
Dance review: Resolution 2026 at The Place
Shows from the cheap seats: My Neighbour Totoro at Gillian Lynne
Dances With Films: Committee Animal, By The Grape of God
Show focus: Most Favoured
Book review: Everything Has Order, Every Action Has Its Place
Film review: Hamlet (NT Live)
Shows from the cheap seats: Coven at Kiln Theatre
Play review: High Noon (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Show interview: Adrien Rosza on The Bitter Pill (21 Soho)
Musical review: Into The Woods at Bridge Theatre
Looking forward to … January 2026
Panto review: Cinderella (Richmond Theatre)
My review of the year – 60 picks from across theatreland!
Panto review: Cinderella (The Questors)
Book review: Queers in History
Digital review: Singing Into The Dark
Book review: The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover: Four Steps To Bring Back The Love
Southwark Playhouse 2025 round-up
Binge Fringe Festival: How to Live Like a Millionaire When You’re a Million Short
Binge Fringe Festival: Marilyn Monroe “Unknown Letters”
Theatre review: The Magic Flute (The Place)
Book review: Alan Hovhaness: Unveiling One of the Great Composers of the 20th Century
Binge Fringe Festival: John Huston – The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Film review: Don’t Trip
Theatre review: Oh Mary! (Trafalgar Theatre)
Theatre review: What’s The Trade? (White Bear Theatre)
Film review: Réservée
Film review: Broadway, Bars, and Fortune
Theatre review: Indian Ink (Hampstead Theatre)
Theatre review: The Railway Children (Theatre at the Tabard)
Changes in London’s theatre landscape
Theatre review: Ms Holmes and Ms Watson – Apt. 2B
Film review: 31 Candles
Theatre review: The Lost Library of Leake Street (The Glitch)
Film review: Teddy and the Mountain
Panto preview: Rapunzel at Tower Theatre
Panto review: Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story
Theatre review: Fallen Angels (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Theatre review: Ballet Shoes (National Theatre)
Review: The Great Christmas Feast (The Lost Estate)
Digital review: Down For The Count (Green Room 42)
Show preview: Beautiful Little Fool
Theatre review: LA Baby (The Glitch)
Digital review: Overshare by Eleanor Hill
Theatre review: Porn Play (Royal Court Upstairs)
Show preview: The Fit Prince …
An Evening With Nicola Benedetti (Royal Albert Hall)
Show preview: My Life With Kenneth Williams
Theatre review: Precipice (New Diorama)
Plays from the cheap seats: Punch
Theatre review: A Fairytale for Christmas (Dominion)
Theatre review: All My Sons (Wyndhams)
Christmas show round up: a festive forty
Theatre review: Pressure 3 (Playhouse East)
Show preview: One Woman and Her Bitch
Binge Fringe Festival: Adopted by Appalachians
Josh Jones: I Haven’t Won The Lottery … (Leicester Square Theatre)
Days of the Dead: One Man Exorcism (online)
Show preview: Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Peckham)
Theatre review: Drifting (Southwark Playhouse)
Book review: Pan’s People – The Lee Ward Story
Show preview: Potted Panto
Films in Concert: Star Wars – The Force Awakens (Royal Albert Hall)
Binge Fringe Festival: Black Don’t Crack / The Advocate (online)
Days of the Dead: Spooky Town (online)
Theatre review: Possum Trot (Theatre at the Tabard)
Theatre review: The Gardening Club (New Wimbledon Theatre)
Theatre review: After Sunday (Bush Theatre)
Book review: Straight White Men Can’t Dance
Theatre review: Facility 111
Show preview: Perfect Show For Rachel
Show preview: Private View (Soho Upstairs)
Film review: Testimony
Voila! Festival preview: When Judas Lost His Boots … and Other Words
Voila! Festival review: I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too
Voila! Festival review: Comfort
Voila! Festival preview: The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer
Film review: Humans In The Loop
Film review: Reawakening
Dance review: Toussaint to Move – FREE
Theatre review: Fatherland (Hampstead Downstairs)
Voila! Festival preview: Invisible Border
Days of the Dead: The Witching Hour (online)
Voila! Festival preview: La Bella Bimba
Theatre review: Gwenda’s Garage (Southwark Playhouse)
Voila! Festival preview: Le Grand Soir
Voila! Festival review: Dick Fiddler is Dead
Binge Fringe Festival: Jane and the Magic Album (online)
Voila! Festival preview: Letters to Joan
Theatre review: Julius Caesar (Omnibus)
Theatre review: Emilia (Questors)
Voila! Festival – Waiting for Julieta
Voila! Festival preview: 333
Theatre review: Period Parrrty (Soho Upstairs)
Voila! Festival preview: RATKING
Voila! Festival preview: I [Redacted] You
Days of the Dead: One Man Poe (online)
Theatre review: Midsomer Murders – The Killings At Badger’s Drift (Richmond Theatre)
London amateur theatre focus: Bromley Players
Binge Fringe Festival: Mafia Anonymous – The Women Speak (online)
Theatre review: Crocodile Fever (Arcola)
Film review: The Marbles
Theatre review: The Night Before The Wedding Day (Theatro Technis)
Voila! Festival preview: The Sound of Absence
Voila! Festival preview: EAT
Theatre review: Kindling (Park Theatre)
Voila Festival preview: Cherry Sour
Show preview: Fatherland
Voila! Festival preview: Imprints
Show preview: A Christmas Carol (Sheffield)
Voila! Festival preview: I have a flight to Frankfurt at half past ten
Voila! Festival preview: The Absence of Aunt Greta
Theatre review: Bloody Mary and the Nine Day Queen (Union Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: Babel Beast
Voila! Festival preview: CAMINO
Show preview: Kindling (Park Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: One Hundred Percent
Voila! Festival preview: Working Class Hero
Voila! Festival preview: Woo Woolf
Theatre review: Ragdoll (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: Daughters of Spring
Show preview: I Dream of Theresa May
Theatre review: Hindle Wakes (Questors)
Voila! Festival preview: KILL YOUR FATHER
Voila! Festival preview: Women Over 30 Don’t Matter
Theatre showcase: India Blog (Bush Theatre)
Voila! Festival preview: Be Gay, For God’s Sake
Film review: Anxious (London Breeze Film Festival)
Theatre review: Getting Through It by Michael Rosen (Old Vic)
Voila Festival preview: God is Dead
Voila! Festival preview: The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin
Film review: Terry’s GI Dad (London Breeze Film Festival)
Voila! Festival preview: Codachrome
Voila! Festival preview: Hidden Voices
Theatre review: Fanny (King’s Head)
Voila! Festival preview: Mendaki
Theatre review: MJ The Musical (Prince Edward)
Theatre review: The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence (Drayton Arms)
Lambeth Fringe preview: Stories From The End
Lambeth Fringe review: Goodbye, Earl!
Show preview: Mr Jones
Show preview: Free
London amateur theatre focus: The Questors (Alex Marker)
London amateur theatre focus: Tower Theatre Company (Amanda Waggott)
Show preview: Boogie on the Bones (Omnibus)
Theatre review: Death on the Nile (Richmond Theatre)
Show preview: The Ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr
Film review: Happy As Larry (London Breeze Film Festival)
Theatre review: Lifers (Southwark Playhouse)
40 facts about Les Miserables
Theatre review: Four Sisters (Barons Court)
Book review: Broadway Nation
Film review: The Long Quiet (London Breeze Film Festival)
Review: The Saturday Superstore Cabaret
Book review: Now and Then by Leigh Lawson
Theatre review: Uprooted (New Diorama)
Reflections on being a theatre critic, 7 years on
Lambeth Fringe preview: Hysteria
Theatre review: Lee (Park Theatre)
Theatre review: The Importance of Being Earnest (Noel Coward)
Lambeth Fringe preview: Overwhelm
Get Down Tonight: The KC and the Sunshine Band Musical (Charing Cross)
Theatre review: (the) Woman (Park Theatre)
Album review: Winchell The Musical
Death on the Nile: Poirot on Tour
Theatre review: The Billionaire Inside Your Head (Hampstead)
Show preview: Wondering Soul (Crazy Coqs)
Theatre review: Lacrima (Barbican)
Lambeth Fringe preview: An Evening With Nana Funk